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A Problem with an M24 Handle.
- Thread starter Grenademan2005
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Hello,I make and repair furniture.I would cut the part off where the cap go,s,and make or buy a dowel of the size you need for the cap, and drill both pieces and insert and glue a smaller dowel into both,clamp and let dry and drill out leaving a small amount.You need to use a slow curing glue, a boat builders 2 part glue,it will have formaldhide as a ingredent.It should hold if your carful,end grain to end grain is not usually advised.Sorry about my spelling.If you need more info,pm me.:tinysmile_classes_t
Grenademan2005
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Im sorry, but what I want to get is to put again the handle straight, it has been bent.
Grenademan2005
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The wood is in very nice to mint condition, very soft and plain, if I boil it I will damage it?
25thapril
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Steam
Hello Miguel some types of wood will be able to be bent/straightened if you apply steam ie hold over the spout of a kettle . if you could sit the ends on say bricks with the bow of the stick upper most then steam the middle and then apply some weight downward in the middle allow to cool down/dry in this position it may just help . As I have never done this to a M24 stick it's your call. Or you could just tell people that it is a very rare variantion of the standard M24 { Boomarang type M24 } even Jeeeensy dosn't have one of those :tinysmile_fatgrin_t
Regards Daryl
Hello Miguel some types of wood will be able to be bent/straightened if you apply steam ie hold over the spout of a kettle . if you could sit the ends on say bricks with the bow of the stick upper most then steam the middle and then apply some weight downward in the middle allow to cool down/dry in this position it may just help . As I have never done this to a M24 stick it's your call. Or you could just tell people that it is a very rare variantion of the standard M24 { Boomarang type M24 } even Jeeeensy dosn't have one of those :tinysmile_fatgrin_t
Regards Daryl
Grenademan2005
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HAHAHAHA, very good. And what about hot air with a pistol of hot air... for instance.
Hi MIguel,
I once restored 2 totally flat and cracked M24 sticks to more or less original shape again. See attached pictures. First one shows them as they were and second picture after first step - they became still better with more work.
What I did is that I removed steel parts, then soaked the stick roughly one day in warm water containing a bit alcohol to soak better inside the wood. Then I took a metal rod of same diameter as stick inner bore and forced in in all the length. Then I used plastic electric cable binders to force the wood smoothly on the rod and let it dry a few days.
After drying I saw that the wood remained in new shape when removing the rod. I inserted epoxy glue in cracks and bound together once more.
Please note that soaking in warm water may damage the stamped markings on wood.
I once restored 2 totally flat and cracked M24 sticks to more or less original shape again. See attached pictures. First one shows them as they were and second picture after first step - they became still better with more work.
What I did is that I removed steel parts, then soaked the stick roughly one day in warm water containing a bit alcohol to soak better inside the wood. Then I took a metal rod of same diameter as stick inner bore and forced in in all the length. Then I used plastic electric cable binders to force the wood smoothly on the rod and let it dry a few days.
After drying I saw that the wood remained in new shape when removing the rod. I inserted epoxy glue in cracks and bound together once more.
Please note that soaking in warm water may damage the stamped markings on wood.
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My advice also is to consider it seriously if you leave it like this or try to straighten.
Whatever you do with wood will damage the original surface more or less.
Personally I would not touch this item. My examples were items I first thought to dump but then tried and finally managed to sell them for a few Euros.
Whatever you do with wood will damage the original surface more or less.
Personally I would not touch this item. My examples were items I first thought to dump but then tried and finally managed to sell them for a few Euros.
Grenademan2005
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I dont like items that are not in their original shape. I think that I will take 50% of each idea, steam with the metal rod.
jeeeensy
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Grenademan2005
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I hope yo never have a fire problem in your home, Nick, with all that "wood".... :xd: When I can I will do the try on the stick, I will post pics of the results. Thank you guys for the advices and ideas :tinysmile_kiss_t3:.