John McCoy <
igo...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Leon <lcb11211@swbelldotnet> wrote in
>
news:7ImdnXORItCmiyjI...@giganews.com:
>
>> On 7/26/2015 9:28 AM, John McCoy wrote:
>
>>> That's what he gets for using cheap epoxy, he should have used
>>> West System.
>
>> Regardless, it seems that his joints were not properly closed. In
>> that case the drawer is not going to fit properly.
>> As you may have stated, the wrong glue for the this application.
>
> I was being sarcastic about the West System...
LOL. ohhhhhhhhhhhh. .-)
>
> With one end of the back 1/2" above the other (because it was
> sitting on the spacer) there's no way the joints would ever
> close properly, clamps or no. What he should have done is
> measure the diagonals for square - then he'd have seen he had
> a problem.
You know, it certainly does not hurt to check for square, building drawers,
but for grins I was looking back at pieces that I have built in the last 5
years. There were over 150 drawers. I don't remember putting a square on
any or checking for square. I will add that typically I build a minimum of
4 at a time and once in excess of 30.
This guy in the video has so many bad habits that he was sure to screw up.
If you make square cuts and use joints that self square, things naturally
square them selves. Now I will add that my drawer bottoms are always
plywood, for dimensional stability, and captured by all four sides of the
drawer, except for the 30+ group I mentioned above. The drawer bottoms
typically have less than 1/32" spacing left/right and front/back between
the drawer sides. Basically the drawer bottom insures the drawer to be
square, and or square enough to prevent any noticeable problems.