This afternoon I came up stairs to get a book. I found that at sometime in the last 24 hours another shelf had broken and fallen to the floor. Luckily nothing was damaged and the repair solution was easily at hand.
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| the space where the shelve should be. |
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| the reason the shelf fell down. |
The plastic pins that hold the shelves fatigue with age and break, especially when the shelves are filled with heavy books.
I went down to the shop and pulled out a piece of scrap 3/4 ply, that had be used at least once before and quickly made a frame with pocket holes. Four passes on the table saw and eight pocket holes drilled, ten minutes work including the time to put all the books back on the shelf.
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| shelf repaired, and not likely to fail again. |
When this happens, as it has happened before the broken pin gets left in the hole. The last time I drilled out the broken bit of pin. Once the pin was removed it was replaced with another pin that will probably fail too. This time I put a wooden frame in place, the lost space on the shelf is not enough to bother me.
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the frame/bracket thing is solid and with a bit of stain,
it will blend in fine. |
I really like having a shop, a few tools and some sticks of wood laying around. Otherwise a crashed piece of furniture like this would be such a pain. I don't know how folks live with out a shop.
cheers, ianw
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