Right on Dan, I will be intetrested to hear how you get along with this.
I am having computer trouble, mine is in the computer hospital and some how the alternate identity which used to work on this computer of Janet's for me isn't working so I am on Web mail which I hate so, until my computer is well again I will only have modest access. Hope you enjoy good success with this method of constructing stairs. It will result in very professional finished construction. Dale Leavens On Tue Jun 1 14:03 , Dan Rossi sent: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Â > > > > > > > > > > Yeah, I am still working on the basement stairs. Since the stringers > were > >short, I decided to just move them 3.5 inches straight up. This has the > >effect of moving the treads further into the stringers. I chose 3.5 > >inches because it was roughly correct, and I had some chunks of 4X4 I > >could rest the bottoms of the stringers on while setting things up. > > > >I got the one stringer in place, then very very carefully located and > >screwed in, a chunk of 2X10 exactly where the first tread would go. > > > >I then built a jig that would enable me to rout out the riser and tread > >dados. I set the jig over that registration chunk of 2X10. This allowed > >me to attach a chunk of 2X4 to the back of the jig right along the edge of > >the stringer. I clamped it in place, removed the registration block and > >routed the first tread. > > > >Then all I had to do was release the clamp, slide the jig down the length > >of the stringer, and by lining up the top of the riser slot in the jig, to > >the bottom front corner of the routed tread, I was ready to routt out the > >next riser and tread dado. > > > >It worked amazingly well. The nose of the treads didn't walk forward or > >back on the stringer at all. > > > >I then propped both stringers in place. I placed a tread in the dado on > >the one tread, then carefully leveled it, and marked exactly where it hit > >the other stringer. I got as far as setting the registration chunk of > >2X10, but haven't routed out the second stringer yet. > > > >I am at least making progress. > > > >-- > >Blue skies. > >Dan Rossi > >Carnegie Mellon University. > >E-Mail: [email protected] > >Tel: (412) 268-9081 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ Send any questions regarding list management to: [email protected] To listen to the show archives go to link http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 Or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [email protected]! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
