Preparing the Spindle Holes to Repair a Wood Chair

Part of the Video Series How to Fix a Broken Wood Chair

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Learn how to prepare the spindle holes to fix broken wooden furniture, with tips and techniques for repairing your old wooden chairs, in this free DIY video on home improvement.

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Preparing the Spindle Holes to Repair a Wood Chair
Okay, this is Charles McMahon for Expert Village continuing on our project of repairing broken chairs. You can see on this one that this spindle has broken off and we are going to replace this with a dowel but first thing we have to do is drill out a new hole. Now this dowel is a little bit smaller than the bottom end of this dowel. It is about the same size as the top end; about 7/16 of an inch. This is a bit fatter, so what we are going to do is drill out a hole here, right through the end of the old dowel to make a hole that we can fit the dowel in.

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Expert: Charles McMahon is a professor emeritus in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written a textbook. Read More