Removing a Broken Handle from an Axe Head

Progress, Volume VI, Issue 12, 2 October 1911, Page 842

Removing a Broken Handle from an Axe Head

When an axe handle or a chair rung is broken much time is apt to be wasted, and serious damage is sometimes done, through misguided efforts to remove the end from the eye or hole; yet it is a simple matter if one goes at it rightly. There is not the slightest occasion for heating in the one case nor for marring in. the other. Bore a hole through the plug with a bit or drill small enough to insure against striking the sides of the original hole; then, with a narrow chisel, cut a slot from each of opposite sides of this hole to the outside of the material to be removed. This will leave the plug in two separate parts, which, if they do not drop out of themselves, may be easily knocked out or split out with the chisel. .If the problem should happen to be that of a handle which is secured by an iron wedge, then a small hole drilled through, close to each side of the wedge will make an opening through which it may be punched out, and from which to chisel the slots, In eases where metal is apt to he encountered, it is best to use a twist drill for the boring, as such a drill works very well in wood and is not injured by moderate contact, with metal, where a bit would be apt to be. ruined.