[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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