Straightening bent boards
Stephen Mackey
mini-disaster. :) I'm sure many of you have suffered similar tragedies over
the years, at least....
My Hero Quest board has, alas, been bent at a slight angle due to improper
storage. The entire board, sadly, not just one section of it. Is there any
way to straighten it out properly, or do I just have to live with sticking
weights on each side during games to keep it nice and flat? I've tried keeping
it under nice big weights and flipping it over every few days, but it doesn't
seem to be doing any good.
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Stephen Mackey
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David desJardins
> My Hero Quest board has, alas, been bent at a slight angle due to
> improper storage. The entire board, sadly, not just one section of
> it. Is there any way to straighten it out properly, or do I just have
> to live with sticking weights on each side during games to keep it
> nice and flat?
I'd try running your shower to raise the humidity in your bathroom, and
expose the board game to that, then try flattening it again. Or use a
steam iron through a heavy layer of cloth. You want to expose it to
high humidity without actually getting it moist or wet, I think. A
humidity chamber would probably be ideal (they use these in art
restoration and document conservation projects), but excessive.
David desJardins
Stephen Mackey
>I'd try running your shower to raise the humidity in your bathroom, and
>expose the board game to that, then try flattening it again. Or use a
>steam iron through a heavy layer of cloth. You want to expose it to
>high humidity without actually getting it moist or wet, I think. A
>humidity chamber would probably be ideal (they use these in art
>restoration and document conservation projects), but excessive.
Hmm, hadn't thought of that. Sounds exceedingly doable, though. Thanks, I'll
give it a try. :)
Rich Shipley
edge or corner you want to bend back over the edge. Press down on the
board with one hand and bend the edge/corner up and back down quickly a
couple times with the other hand. Just do it a little and see if that
works. Bend it a little higher if needed.
Rich
Gola
> This looked like the most appropriate place to get advice on my little
> mini-disaster. :) I'm sure many of you have suffered similar tragedies over
> the years, at least....
> My Hero Quest board has, alas, been bent at a slight angle due to improper
> storage. The entire board, sadly, not just one section of it. Is there any
> way to straighten it out properly, or do I just have to live with sticking
> weights on each side during games to keep it nice and flat? I've tried keeping
> it under nice big weights and flipping it over every few days, but it doesn't
> seem to be doing any good.
I unearthed my old copy of Risk (the one with the little roman
numerals) from my parents' house to discover that the board had become
badly warped. I took the board out and tried flattening it with
dictionaries over the course of a couple of nights, but no luck. Not
knowing what else to do, I left the board on the floor in an out of
the way place, put the not-at-all-heavy game box on top of it, and
forgot about it.
When I finally decided to find a permanent home for the game a few
months later, I discovered that the board was completely flat.
So I guess the point is either that flattening the board is more
dependent on the amount of time you apply force to it than the weight
that is applied or that floor in my office has magical healing powers.
If it's the latter case, I wonder if it turned Risk into a better
game?
JG
John Cartmell
Gola <go...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> So I guess the point is either that flattening the board is more
> dependent on the amount of time you apply force to it than the weight
> that is applied or that floor in my office has magical healing powers.
I'd expect changes in humidity to help - ie if it was 'dried out' whilst
flat it would be more liekly to stay flat.
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Jason E. Schaff
> This looked like the most appropriate place to get advice on my little
> mini-disaster. :) I'm sure many of you have suffered similar tragedies over
> the years, at least....
> My Hero Quest board has, alas, been bent at a slight angle due to improper
> storage. The entire board, sadly, not just one section of it. Is there any
> way to straighten it out properly, or do I just have to live with sticking
> weights on each side during games to keep it nice and flat? I've tried keeping
> it under nice big weights and flipping it over every few days, but it doesn't
> seem to be doing any good.
If the board is just warped or bowed (as opposed to having a sharp bend
or crick), you could try placing _thin_ paperback books (or wood shims
of similar height) under the low edges of the board and then stacking
heavy weights at the top of the bulge for a couple of days. I've never
tried this with a game board, but it has worked for me with warped
sheets of heavy weight cardboard. Having the slight reverse bend seemed
to help flatten things out.
Best of luck.
--
Jason E. Schaff
"You can wash a pig as often as you like, but it will still wallow in
the mud."
--Russian Proverb
L. Tuxbury
with my Torres board. It wasn't warped due to ago or poor storage. Instead,
it wouldn't lie flat, due to design. I bent one of the sections a bit too
far back, and it snapped off! Luckily, I had access to some library book
tape, but the board was damaged. Just be careful, folks.
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