C Craft
Well-Known Member
Dan it was 28* straight up wind chill about 4* below that, now I know that is probably a heat wave for you but,............................ Well anyway I am tired of Winter even if this has been a mild one for us!
Walle point wasn't lost but if that is the environment that it is in,............. that is the environment it is! We can't stop the man from overheating and taking all the moisture out of his house. You are right that may be a major contributing factor in the failure of this handle.
The given environment was something I originally missed but went back and re-read the entire thread. That is why I suggested that maybe the handle material needed to be changed! That was after I made the statement of couldn't imagine an environment that would cause that much change! That is when I remembered this story about my father in law!
Years ago my father in law had open heart surgery and after that he was extremely cold during that winter. I first noticed when I went in their house it was so hot that I could barely stay in there! Plus I was cutting and supplying wood to him and he was going thru a lot more than myself. I first thought it was because they were home all day and I was working a big chunk of the day.
One afternoon I am in his kitchen trying to stay away from the fireplace and I noticed how his wooden kitchen cabinets he had built years before were pulling apart. I started walking around the house and especially in his den where the fireplace was the same thing only worse. Some wood items were literally tearing themselves apart.
When I mentioned that the wood items in the house were moving he stated the he had seen it too. He tried to cut down some on the amount of heat he was producing and he put a pot of water on the old wood stove to help with the moisture in the house, that helped but really didn't cure until the winter was over and he shut down the wood stove. However he was family and you just don't tell a client something like that and, that really places Dan in bad position! That kind of heat and drying of the natural moisture will effect a lot of things!
Walle point wasn't lost but if that is the environment that it is in,............. that is the environment it is! We can't stop the man from overheating and taking all the moisture out of his house. You are right that may be a major contributing factor in the failure of this handle.
The given environment was something I originally missed but went back and re-read the entire thread. That is why I suggested that maybe the handle material needed to be changed! That was after I made the statement of couldn't imagine an environment that would cause that much change! That is when I remembered this story about my father in law!
Years ago my father in law had open heart surgery and after that he was extremely cold during that winter. I first noticed when I went in their house it was so hot that I could barely stay in there! Plus I was cutting and supplying wood to him and he was going thru a lot more than myself. I first thought it was because they were home all day and I was working a big chunk of the day.
One afternoon I am in his kitchen trying to stay away from the fireplace and I noticed how his wooden kitchen cabinets he had built years before were pulling apart. I started walking around the house and especially in his den where the fireplace was the same thing only worse. Some wood items were literally tearing themselves apart.
When I mentioned that the wood items in the house were moving he stated the he had seen it too. He tried to cut down some on the amount of heat he was producing and he put a pot of water on the old wood stove to help with the moisture in the house, that helped but really didn't cure until the winter was over and he shut down the wood stove. However he was family and you just don't tell a client something like that and, that really places Dan in bad position! That kind of heat and drying of the natural moisture will effect a lot of things!
Just sayin'.
