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Day: October 17, 2011

  • Sawed-off Sawhorse

    As part of sawing a kitchen countertop apart to fit it into the bathroom, this happened:

    Sawed-off sawhorse
    Sawed-off sawhorse

    I’d very carefully checked the clearance for the first two cuts, but …

    The sawhorse is polyethylene, which cannot be glued, so I drilled holes in the internal bulkheads, slobbered JB Industro-Weld epoxy through them, and filled the gaps with wood blocks:

    Wood-epoxy PE repair
    Wood-epoxy PE repair

    The goal being to not have metallic fasteners where the saw blade can find them.

    This should work for a while:

    Sawhorse cap repaired
    Sawhorse cap repaired

    If that’s never happened to you, I’d say you aren’t doing enough circular saw work…