Before work I sprayed the tap handles with polyurethane so they could have a chance to dry and we could put these guys together after work. That part of the plan went very well, and then we got home and started putting them together…
There were a number of steps that had to be completed in order to put the tap handles together. We started with gluing in the nuts to the hole I drilled yesterday in the bottom of the handle. This needed to be very secure as if the nuts move in a circle when I am screwing them onto the tap the project will not work. With this in mind we reached again for the gorilla glue. Jackie put a small amount in the bottom of the hole and we pushed in the nuts. At the same time we decided to use the gorilla glue to secure the chalkboards to the 1x6’s. With these weighed down and the tap handles resting, we went upstairs for dinner.
After dinner we came back down to a small mess. The gorilla glue in the tap handles expanded, as it is made to do, and was flowing out the top of the hole and onto the bottom of the tap handle. In addition, the glue had expanded under the chalkboards and ended up flowing out the sides onto the boarder of the 1x6. So instead of finishing these up, we starting scraping half cured gorilla glue off the sides of the chalkboards and tap handles. By then end of the night we with some elbow grease and a can of paint thinner we had everything looking good and hopefully usable. Jackie put on the last coat of chalkboard paint and we decided to stop before we messed anything else up!
A picture of the bolts put in with the correct glue. Lets hope they hold!!
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