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May 28, 2006 by Krispy | Posted in Other - Home & Garden

I am trying to find out the era for a school desk. Does anyone know a link or sight where I can find out the era, or even the history on school desks?
It is a desk for younger school children with a folding bench in the front and the desk in the back, they lined up behind each other.

try this link

http://antiqueschooldesk.com/

it leads you to different kinds of desks, hopefully the desk you are looking for is on here.

I want to redo an old child's desk. Can you help?

Apr 07, 2009 by Buzzkill | Posted in Do It Yourself (DIY)

Ok. I have a small child's school desk. It is made of metal and the seat and back is made of wood. I don't know how the wood was made but it looks to be thin layers bent into the current shape and glued into place. The back of the seat is peeling off on the outside layers and I would like to recreate this. I have read some on steaming or soaking, which I hope to try.

My first issue is, what can I use to rig these new layers into the same shape as the previous wood?

My second problem is replacing the seat. They are currently held in place with rivets. I like the look that it has with rivets through wood. I've read up on the rivets a little bit too and from what I can tell, they are called something like a mate rivet. Both sides look like a button cap.

Is this a relatively simple task, replacing a rivet?

Thanks in advance.

1, Your seat back is made from a lamination process. Strips of wood are coated with glue, and then pressed into a form. The drying process of the glue is accelerated by RF signals from the machine. A HUGE MICROWAVE for wood laminating. Before you try to steam and bend,,, look at the laminations and see if you can get some water and Gorilla Glue in the cracks. If so,,, make up some disposable clamps by cutting the curve into some scrap wood, a front and back,,, so a standard set of bar clamps will pull the layers together. Glue, let dry, sand,,, finsih.

2. Rivots,,, drill to remove. Replace with stove bolts as suggested, or with more rivots. Contact your local hardware store, to look for rivots or hide away type fasteners. If you can't find any, go with the stove bolts, but cut them and file them to a length so that you can screw them down with a lock washer and a cap nut. The reason rivots were used to start with, was to keep sharp edges out from under the desk.

Good luck.

My favorite book as a child was about this moose who had a first day of school. Anyone have any clue?

Sep 20, 2006 by eyellnevrtell | Posted in Books & Authors

I can barely remember a detail other than, I think he wore a jersey, and may not have fit into his school desk and broke it.
I am 28 just so you know the time frame it would have been popular in. Eaarly 80s.

OK was it Morris goes to school,Or Morris the moose they both have to do with him going to school,i love it and Danny the dinosaur and Sammy the seal,those are the I can read series.

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