Anyone interested in 83 Pace Arrow Tear down and Rebuild?

After cutting a number of them, I decided to secure 'em with Kreg pocket holes and screws.

Next step is to mount jig to, (drum roll), same secure object with a couple of clamps.

Whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do - when ya need to cut a bunch of pieces of 2 x 4's the same length?

Clamp yer miter saw to a secure object, clamp yer stop block to same secure object the correct distance from saw blade, and cut 'em up.

Lather, rinse, and repeat.

Cut one, slide board, cut again, repeat.

I cut my 2 x 4's for the scaffold railing legs today. Yay!

So, the 2 x 3's didn't collapse in the center. By the way, the 2 screws in the bottom were just screwed in from the side, and I did not use the Kreg jig to drill pocket holes.

What's the point of all this?

Well, according to a question the other night about weight being supported by 24 screws.......

And that set my mind a runnin'..........

So, a preliminary conclusion would amount to - if I wanted to push this a little, 330 lbs divided by 2 = 165 lbs of weight being held per screw on the outside.

That would mean, 165 * 24 = 3960 lbs for those 24 screws. I would think that putting 600 lbs on that scaffold would be safe, since we have the equivalent of 3360 lbs of excess holding ability.

But, alas, I digress. Do NOT do this at home, based on what you read here. Do your own research, make your own decisions, based on your research, not mine. Ok? Ok.

That isn't the only test I plan on doing, so hopefully within a few days, I can get the other one done as well.

Thanks for the question, Pastor C!

Then, it was time to step on the (doo-hickey), while on the scale.

The first part shows a little over 240 lbs.







The second shows about 345 lbs.







That was a trip trying to balance on one foot, on a board with only 1 screw on each side, (can u say - not stable), all while trying to take a picture. Lol.

View from one side, showing a single screw....







Plus a view from the other side, also showing a single screw.

happy you did it.

chevman

In order to do a quick test on the strength of the Kreg screws, I put together a little "doo-hickey", (yep, that's the technical term).

I used 4 pieces of 2 x 3's. This is the top view.







This is the view from the bottom. As the circles show, there are 2 screws holding these 2 pieces of 2 x 3's together. I did not glue any of these 4 joints. (yellow arrows). These are held together only by a total of 4 screws.

I then used the same type of bracing on the passenger side. That side also doesn't move at all, as in, not a bit.

The pair of 2x3's have been wedged into place, with a couple of screws to hold them together.

I then added a cross brace to make sure they don't move. Notice that this is done on macadam, so it made things very stable.







The upper corners are wedged in like this, so it's not depending totally on the screws. The screws are here to hold the 2x3 from moving.

After playing with several different combinations for bracing, this configuration made it the most stable. Doesn't move at all.