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This sounds reasonable Ralph, but you are an Archeeeeetect. Can we get
a Carpenter to confirm?
-jc
On Apr 9, 2004, at 6:01 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> In a message dated 4/9/2004 5:53:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> So? How difficult is it to disassemble a newel post, stair rail and
> the spindles? What are the challenges?
> Spindles shouldn't be too bad; you pry the nosings off the stringers,
> and then have to worry about whether the tops of the balusters are
> nailed in, in addition to being set into holes on the underside of the
> handrail. The dovetails in the bottom of the balusters will probably
> have been nailed in place. I don't know that there's any avoiding
> splitting some of the tops of the nailed balusters, so you'll have to
> do it carefully and then reglue them. Then you gotta take the
> handrail off the newels, and that joint may be nailed or bolted
> together, so be real careful. Once you get the handrails off (they
> can be held with some sort of weird bolt with nuts at both ends, so
> you may want to do some strategic paint stripping at joint lines
> before hand), then you gotta figure out how to get the newel off
> whatever floor joists it's attached to (probably bolted), without
> (preferably) destroying the finish and subfloors.
>
> Then all you gotta do is put it back together. There must be an Old
> House Journal article on this somewhere--- and OLD one, not from the
> current advertiser.
>
> Ralph
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