Michael Moscicki
03-18-2016, 1:11 PM
I am in the process of making a unit of display shelves to hold various small items from trips and the like. I though I would be clever by gluing and clamping the top and bottom to the sides, separately from the middle shelves, in order to get it as close to square as my maple allowed me. Once dry, the top had a nice tight joint. The bottom, had a slight gap, but nothing I couldn't work around.
To give me a false sense of confidence, my four middle shelves were dry fitted with relative ease. Then came the glue up and things did not fit easily. I should have quit at the first sign of resistance, but I just kept pounding away at the shelf with a rubber mallet until it could be pounded no more. It did not reach the back by a considerable amount.
I tried a hair dryer for roughly 15 minutes per dado and mineral spirits. In the process I also managed to get a pry bar stuck in one of the dados. One side of the dado seems to have been loosened, but the side with the pry bar has no not.
Any tips on undoing a Titebond II glue joint? I've read vinegar could do the trick, haven't tried it yet as it was conveniently out of stock in the pantry.
At this point I'm leaning toward flush cutting the shelf out and redoing the dado, but wanted to ask the experts before I dig an even digger hole for myself. If I do that I would either do the same to the top and bottom or go buy more maple to cut a new shelf to the appropriate length.
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To give me a false sense of confidence, my four middle shelves were dry fitted with relative ease. Then came the glue up and things did not fit easily. I should have quit at the first sign of resistance, but I just kept pounding away at the shelf with a rubber mallet until it could be pounded no more. It did not reach the back by a considerable amount.
I tried a hair dryer for roughly 15 minutes per dado and mineral spirits. In the process I also managed to get a pry bar stuck in one of the dados. One side of the dado seems to have been loosened, but the side with the pry bar has no not.
Any tips on undoing a Titebond II glue joint? I've read vinegar could do the trick, haven't tried it yet as it was conveniently out of stock in the pantry.
At this point I'm leaning toward flush cutting the shelf out and redoing the dado, but wanted to ask the experts before I dig an even digger hole for myself. If I do that I would either do the same to the top and bottom or go buy more maple to cut a new shelf to the appropriate length.
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