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Its cool with rain today, not the hard downpours that you get in the summer but the gentle rain that if it were a couple of degrees colder would turn to snow. With the temperature hovering in the high 30’s I’ll have to glue up the tool chest indoors. I move the tool chest parts into the dining room along with a large piece of cardboard a dozen clamps, square and rubber hammer. They sit quietly for a couple of hours basking in the warmth of the house and then I begin to test the clamping plan making sure that I have everything close at hand.

Not long ago I would wipe glue on the parts pound the joints together then scramble for clamps, cauls, paper towels and anything else required. It certainly is easier to lay everything out test clamp and then begin glue up.

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