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Reconstructing the Stair Rail and Balusters

Bob and Ryley begin to reassemble the stair rail and balusters. Ryley demonstrates the various fastening and plugging techniques.
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Reconstructing the Stair Rail and Balusters

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" Well within the thing was cutting these up these hand -- wrong bolted through -- about their I would get up with the reciprocating saw exactly and now we're gonna put -- together with screws now okay and where this newel post to four inches deep and I had to do is follow Powell writes I have had drilled some holes on this side here. So -- well our our screws to get -- okay so accidents this kind of -- in Germany you can. To senator Denmark Finland -- And all right now repeat the process on the other newel post here right now she. We'll kind of guerrillas there that's is a the basis of 38. -- in support -- it's a and one when I got here. There's a hole -- right there right. That puts on us as a right -- we definitely can fill these holes in with you really don't have to worry about him because he's going to be painted but inside and basically it's a home -- yeah. And up like that are so that you can plug them up after you've driven the screws. That -- that the Senate. That is centered. -- sounds good yet. -- case scenario of what was up job. -- flew on them. This is as you were saying it had been important to use the same would have painted but it if we were. Having used using natural. Human matches -- well. -- that come back and saying it now credit some would say that this is backwards how we gonna get. Spindles and hear the balusters. Well to the pre cut holes in the floor and in the bottom rail road oh what we've done is. Cut the dolls down so we have this space may have. Three sixteenths of an inch or so on the bottom and the actual hole as much deeper than that opposed the unit that's always really need to secure it yeah. What kind of tight enough so that we can get enough. At the top pop in there. Into the spot on the railing and then just put that put down. And that's it but I want to glue that anyone dropped a bit of glue into -- these holes."

" Okay. Right that's gonna hold it and keep on keep it on let's check in over on this side of the -- Shiels is working on similar problem. But these are all involved curve. As well as an angle. Are you putting them in here well disliked him and these came originally. Putting in the same order became well that's an important thing what when we removed all of these we took them out and order. We put numbers on each spin also there when they went to the strippers they had a number now grown graves engraved into the top heavy twine. And so clearly the most important element it's having them fall back into the exact location fifth. Glow. It did and only about. Barely an eighth of an inch so here we do have to human couple attacks. So you have this wonderful. It's an excellent. --"

" Good and as -- the prettiest details in the whole house I think."

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