My sisters has the old, possibly antique, chair with mortise and tenon joints pinned my finish nails. The glue failed many years ago and the chair is being held together by the pins. The whole chair racks forward and back by about a foot (like a recliner) apparently because the mortise and tenon joints are severely worn from years of use with broken glue joints. How can I fix this? The first thing that comes to mind is filling the mortise with epoxy and clamping the chair back together. Will that hold? The idea is to fill the empty space in the joints worn with epoxy.
Thanks, Scott