BS 1186-2:1988
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Timber for and workmanship in joinery Specification for workmanship
Hardcopy , PDF
English
31-05-1988
Foreword
Committees responsible
Specification
0 Introduction
1 Scope
2 Definitions
3 Moisture content
4 Joints permitting movement
5 Adhesives for all framed glued joints, finger joints
and laminated timber
6 Fixed joints
7 Edge to edge jointed timber
8 Laminated timber
9 Finger jointed timber
10 Adhesives
Appendices
A Guidance on machined surfaces and their treatment
B Guidance on timber movement
C Method of test for the assessment of finger joint
strength
Tables
1 Guide to the efficiency in bending of some softwood
finger jointed profiles
2 Number of jointed specimens to be taken from each
production batch
3 Recording of failure loads for unjointed timber
Figures
1 Typical hand cut, lapped dovetail joint
2 Typical machine cut, lapped dovetail joint
3 Through dovetail joint
4 Secret dovetail joint
5 Restrictions on knots
6 Plain-sawn timber (tangential)
7 Quarter-sawn timber (radial)
8 Illustration of three-point and four-point loading
9 Three-point loading test
10 Four-point loading test
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