Fixing up an 'Adirondack' adjustable/folding outdoor chair. And have it substantially apart at moment prior to reassembling. Seems to be
100% clear cedar.Wooden pieces are all there and in pretty good condx. but some improper fasteners (which look like modified plaster-board screws have rusted away). Am wondering if it would be good idea to also use glue where wood meets wood?
And if so what type of glue would be best for outdoor use on cedar?
For example there are 7 slats to the seat back which are each fastened with two screws at each of three levels to the curved pieces that support it.
Also two arm rests that were each held on by three screws, now rusted, into end grain of vertical support pieces. Not good design! And may modify them.
Also; as either part of the original manufacture or maybe added later are two pieces of what at first sight looked like that perforated pipe support/hanging strapping, used hidden, where the chair back slats meet their supports! Maybe it wasn't pipe support metal but it has also rusted (It's an outside chair after all!) and some rust has stained some areas, fortunately sort of out of sight on the back and some of the black can be sanded out.
Any other advice welcome; been thinking of building such a chair from plans, when this one was presented with its few problems, as mentioned, during community clean up week!
Thanks for any help. It's another of those 'too good to throw away' projects! BTW I'm going to downgrade one of the two wooden picnic tables on our large deck to the role of only cutting up wood on.
They both came free for the effort of being collected with our pickup as owners upgraded to fancier 'store bought' (That means imported from China!) tables and chair sets! (You can even buy them at the s.market with your groceries now!).
A third one was also free and a few years ago I donated it to a divorced mother with several children. Now remarried her husband has put a new top on that one, doing a nicer job that I would. Anyway reuse and recycling are alive and well. And boy does it help the bank account!