[Sca-cooks] Flimsy pole... <WAS: Re: Books was Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery>

Mark Hendershott crimlaw at jeffnet.org
Sun Apr 11 11:51:13 PDT 2010


After one too many midnight crashes, we replaced the wooden closet rods with 3/4 inch pipe thirty years ago.  Reccommended.

Simon Sinneghe
Briaroak, Summits, An Tir



> ------------Original Message------------
> From: "Terry Decker" <t.d.decker at att.net>
> To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Date: Sun, Apr-11-2010 5:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Flimsy pole... <WAS: Re: Books was Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery>
>
> Some of our closets came with iron gas pipe rods.  They've stood up 
> well for 
> the twenty years we've had them.  Looking at the connectors, I'd say 
> they 
> replaced 1 1/2 inch wooden ones.
> 
> Bear
> 
> > My personal woodworker-AND-blacksmith opines that a solid wooden pole 
> is 
> > likely to be stronger than almost any hollow tube of metal labeled 
> "closet 
> > pole" that you may find at the hardware store.
> >
> > Metal is maleable, and probably 99% of all metal closet poles we've 
> ever 
> > seen at the hardware store are both hollow and made of 
> > not-intrinsically-strong types of metal (pot metal, aluminum, etc. -- 
> 
> > or unhardened steel) -- his test is, take the metal pole and hit an 
> edge 
> > with it -- if it bends under impact, it will eventually bend under 
> load.
> >
> > One would want a hardwood pole, and those can be ... interesting to 
> find 
> > (hardwood dowel, fine; hardwood 1.5", not so easy to find!); and the 
> > density of the wood needs to increase, the longer your pole is. Of 
> course, 
> > oak is also very "brash", so if/when it goes, there will be 
> splinters... 
> > probably the best idea is to ALSO include intermediate support 
> pole(s), 
> > depending on the width of your closet and/or the weight of what 
> you're 
> > hanging.
> >
> > cheers,
> > chimene
> 
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