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  • Fast Fixes for Old and New Furniture
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    Freshen up your old furniture with some fast fixes, or make a new chair look like an antique.
    From "Today Show Tips"
    episode DTST-103


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    Fixing an Antique Chair

    Say you're at the flea market when you're eyeing this gorgeous antique chair — but it's broken. But if you know how to repair it, you're looking at a great bargain!

    The most common problems with old chairs are the runs or stretchers, which are the pieces that hold the four legs of the chair together. If the chair is an antique and all the joints are in bad shape, you'll need to take them all apart and clean out the joints to get rid of the old glue. There are two ways of doing that:
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    • Go after the joint with sandpaper or any kind of sharp tool to get rid of the excess globs of glue.
    • Take a piece of dowel that's the appropriate size and wrap a piece of sandpaper around it. Use that to go into the holes in the chair legs of the chair. Twist the dowel around to sand the inside of the hole.

    Use carpenter's glue in the joints, and tap the pieces back together with a wooden or rubber mallet. Clamp the pieces together and let the glue dry overnight.

    If you run into a case where someone has put screws in the chair, you may have to drill into the wood to get the screw out. Then put glue on a dowel that's the about the same diameter as the hole and tap the dowel into the hole.

    After the glue has set up, sand off any excess.


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