Fixing A Wooden Kitchen Chair With Loose Legs and Spindles
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- In this video I show you how to fix loose legs and spindles on wooden kitchen chairs. I go over how I connect the wooden dowels. It's easy to do and just takes a few simple tools. I hope this video helps!
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Thank you SO much for this video. I love my garage-sale Windsor chairs. But I have 2 out in the garage that I've been afraid to have people sit on because the spindles have worked themselves out. This video gave me the confidence to repair them myself!
Personally I use a Pilot drill bit with a countersink & sawdust mixed with wood glue to plug the holes 👍👌
Thank you! We got kitchen chairs with the spindles from Good Will & 2 of the spindles are loose. I've been racking my brain on how to fix them. This is perfect, thank you!
You've been racking your brains? and they are from Good Will? Geez....go back and spend another $2 for the chairs!
Thank you Michael! I've watched several videos on how to fix the problem I have with ALL my dining room chairs, and this video makes the most sense to me. A couple of years ago I bought an older home and the air is so much drier in this house than where I've lived before and it's caused all the rungs on my dining room chairs to pull loose. I think wood glue is helpful, but I want the chairs to STAY fixed for as long as possible. I am totally trying this on my chairs! I've never done this before so wish me luck! :-)
Thanks for watching and good luck with your project!
This is a good simple fix that, i think most anyone can go. Everything else, is icing on the cake.
Awesome video!
Great video thanks
Have you ever tried some 2-part epoxy? It can be a little messy but, once you get the hang of it you'll love it.
You never use epoxy on joinery... a quick disassemble and clean the old glue, re glue and clamp, done
This is jus a quick fix method definately not for any chair of value (antique)
Good points. Thank you sir!
I tried a 1/8 drill bit and the 8 X 2.5 screw snapped in half when I tried to install it. Was my drill bit too short for the screw length? Also, I was attempting to fix the right front leg of the chair to the dowel.
Thanks Mike i have the same problem.From uk
Hey thanks!
I bought a electric sander hopefully sometime this week I will get into
Is there a special tape that you wrap the end dowel with to give it thickness before you glue it back into the hole? Or am I cross crossing some other technique??
You can shim it with wood shavings, or coat the male end with glue, and wrap it with some thin thread before reassembly. These techniques are better if you want to keep the appearance as original as possible. In my method in the video, you can see the screw head, but it won’t come back apart. I was going for function over beauty. You could also use screws, but before putting the screw in and after drilling the pilot hole, you can counter sink the hole so the screw sits below the wood line. Then you could take some wood putty that matches the stain and cover them. The way I did it here is just one of many ways
What size drill bit??
Super bro
I have those exact chairs and the spindles are almost impossible to find . Do you know where I could find some to replace the broken ones?
Find a woodworking shop in your area that has a wood lathe so he can make the same spindles you need
thanks you for help
What does it mean when you said you were torquing your drill? What is the process and what does that do?
Drills commonly have a torque adjustment on them, near the chuck. Just turn it down some so you don’t strip out the wood or screw
Screws, when you can get to the joint to glue it? That is ridiculous.
Larry B I glued these joints with every type of wood glue at the store. It would last about a month, then popped back loose. Guess you never had kids that like to lean back in their chairs. I did this over three years ago and guess what? Not a one has came loose. I’d rather see a screw head than to keep busting my ass
Larry B I totally agree with you glue nowadays is stronger than the wood itself. If he had cleaned the old glue off before and cramped them while the glue was going off you wouldn't need to use screws. Screws should not be used in chairs of this or any other style I'd not let this guy loose near any of my furniture.
@@MikesGarage96 Yes, I tried wood glue and guerilla wood glue; then I had my handyman use some other professional glue and a nail gun with very skinny nails - a month later the spindles were falling out. This looks like a better method.
Maybe countersink the screw heads and add a dowel plug to hide. Other than that thank you for the video.
good video......furniture screws would have been a nice touch though.
If you're going to use screws, you could countersink them and cover with a dowel cap; would look better.
Great idea!
Hi I bought a use table with chairs the only thing is that the chairs need some work the lady said that her puppies chewed on the chairs so they are a little damage how can I fix them by the way the chairs look just like yours
If they're small scratches and you're just wanting to make it look a little better you can buy a pack of furniture touch up markers from a home improvement store. You pick out the color that best matches your chair and color in the scratches. If you want to fix it the 'right way' you will have to sand the scratches out smooth, match the color stain and stain the wood that you sanded, then polyurethane over it. If you sand start out with some course 100 grit, then go to 220 grit, and finish it with some 00 steel wool to really make it smooth.
Natalie Woodley also whenever you're sanding wood, always sand with the direction that the grain of the wood runs in.
Just use a glue.. Yes it will become loose but it's better than using screws..
Looked up, "How to fix old kitchen chairs" and found what appears to be my exact same chair. An eerie (for me) but great video!
You could still countersink it and cover it with puddy.
Wtf? Screws? No! You plane some thin shavings off a straight grain wood. Take your shaving and glue them to the loose tennon so it's oversized. Once its dry sand the tenon back to a tight fit and glue it. You want screws on your wood chair go buy ikea
Yeah, but can you explain that to us simple folk? Or can you make a video to show us what you're talking about?
Great, simple approach to a problem that sometimes is harder to fix than it should be.
He’s making a video for folks repairing their own. Most homeowners have no idea what you’re talking about. A great solution, but not something that everybody can do.
This has been 3 years and we still sit in them every day. This was meant for the average person to do, not a carpenter. Do you have a link to your video so I can learn how to correctly do it?
@@MikesGarage96 I just watched this video.
th-cam.com/video/FwGktjnl33I/w-d-xo.html
The lady I bought the furniture her puppies crewed up one of the chairs I put wood filler I don't know how to send picture to show you how it is
Natalie Woodley it's probably going to take a lot of sanding to get it looking good again. Just some time and patience and you'll have it.
your right,glue does not work
This is 100% incorrect. With joint repair on chairs that have a live load, you never want to us metal in the wood, as you adjust and shift weight the metal being harder than wood will wear out. The correct way to fix the joint is with Hide glue. It is heat activate and is the original glue for chair spindles.
Ebray413 thanks, where’s your video link?
@@MikesGarage96 thanks for the video. You may want to check out this vid. th-cam.com/video/FwGktjnl33I/w-d-xo.html
I see... So you recommend using screws if the chair is old, and has already worked itself loose again after a couple of regluings... 🤔
Shouldn't you have used a rubber mallet to knock the dowels in properly though?
This is not how to fix a chair leg!
Feel the burn! lol
Mike’s Garage We have a WINNER 😬👌👍
Thick Twat Show us how, oh great one....
That is so unprofessional. I wish you would STOP teaching to repair chairs that way, I've been repairing furniture 36 years. I hate it when someone has put screws through the legs or streachers. I also worked in the furniture industry for 28 years.
Not nice looking haha
Did You make it with woodprix instructions?