More Ash frame repairs

Continuing with the ash repairs, the next area tackled was the "B" Post or the back of the door aperture if you prefer. The Right hand side post was unscrewed and take to the bench.
The picture above shows the removed "B" Post with its lower half replaced with new timber, the notch at the base sits over the sill , which is screwed together. The old piece of timber can be seen on the bench, its condition is quite poor having rotted at its base. The replacement piece is glued and screwed at its joint using Extraphen boat builders glue and stainless screws.














The scarf joint is quite high up, the reason being that's how far I had to cut beack to get to good solid wood.

The replaced post after having a coat of black wood preservative painted over areas which are not glued later.











Still on the same side, a replacement section of sill, partly shaped has been offered up to the frame, and a corner block has bee added to allow pencil lines to be added to illustrate where further trimming is neccessary before gluing up. Traditional rebate and block planes were used to remake this replacement piece.












The same piece after gluing and screwing in place.
The rebate for the door skin and aluminium sill cladding has been cutaway, and the corner block is finished too.

Where the piece has been attached to the old wood, the joint was reinforced with a 3/8" thick tongue of ply fitted through the centre of the wood, running parallel with the door bottom.

The final shape was achieved by sanding to a pencil line using power tools after planing the wood.