My sweet little niece has a cute little IKEA table and chair set but her older brother broke the laminated chipboard seat after falling on it while rollerblading in the house (Covid indoor activities ;) )
Here is the broken seat, there is no support except at the front and back hence why it snapped in the center.
She asked if I had any wood to repair it but all I had on hand was thinner as shown above or thicker shown below.
But as a recycler and repurposer I had a couple more storage piles to check.
This is the front support edge with brad nails once I took it all apart.
A couple dowel were snapped off as well once it was apart so I drilled them out and replaced with new dowels.
In my last pile I found 3/8" plywood sheet that was perfect. I cut it first on the table saw to rip it down to a manageable size.
Then I fine tuned the piece on the mitre saw.
The edges were sanded smooth and tapped into the frame. See the added 1/4" piece under the front edge to give a firm surface to hammer on to affix the brad nails into the replacement seat.
On the back frame piece I used the old seat to hammer on as to not dent the wood chair frame.
A power sand to the seat top and the little chair was as good as new.
Isn't she the sweetest? And her little set it back in action! xoxo
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