I did my good deed for the week and rescued an old round/oval table. These tables all suffer from the same design flaw, since the factories copy each other and they don't care about it lasting much beyond the show room door. A table with a central leg will only last if it is made from steel. A wooden table that is light enough that normal human beings can still lift it, will eventually split, due to the enormous leverage from the table edge onto the central leg. The central leg is made from four planks glued together and then turned on a lathe - which also weakens it. The four feet, are invisibly bolted through into the hollow. When a knight in heavy armour leans on the table, the central leg tends to split at the bottom or top. I wedged the spars open and poured in some white glue and let it run down, while spreading it with a little swizzle stick and wiping up with a damp cloth. Then I clamped it and drilled four holes for dowel rods (the little white points above the clamp ja
Autonomous planes, trains and cranes...