{"id":2212,"date":"2008-12-02T16:06:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T21:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hogonice.com\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2008-12-02T16:06:20","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T21:06:20","slug":"stubborn-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=2212","title":{"rendered":"Stubborn Desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>*#^%*#%%*#!!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I took a piece of scrap aluminum and screwed it to the bottom of my heavy MDF desk, in hopes that it might take a dip out of the center of the desk&#8217;s top. No dice. The aluminum is fairly sturdy, and I checked to see if it was straight before I attached it, but I guess the desk is too strong for it. Maybe I should have forced the desk into a true plane before I put in the screws. The aluminum exerted a lot of force on the table as I put in the screws to attach it, however, so I am sure it&#8217;s pushing against the bow.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what to do now. I&#8217;m wondering if I could put a turnbuckle under the front of the table and connect it to the ends with cable. Then maybe if I tightened it, it would pull the table out of the bowed shape.<\/p>\n<p>The steps I have taken so far cost about two dollars, so I don&#8217;t feel too bad.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if I could get a long threaded bolt and run it between the front feet of the table and use it to pull them together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*#^%*#%%*#!! I took a piece of scrap aluminum and screwed it to the bottom of my heavy MDF desk, in hopes that it might take a dip out of the center of the desk&#8217;s top. No dice. The aluminum is fairly sturdy, and I checked to see if it was straight before I attached it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}