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Following on from this post , and to prevent the Post Office suing us, I've been doing some experiments on mending the sandstone door post; and this is what I found. I decided on an experiment to see how I could glue one piece of sandstone to another. Using one of the many sandstone boulders lying around our garden (£5:00 each to anyone who'll come and take them away) .... I split one of the boulders straight down the middle. Easy. I drilled a hole straight through both halves of the stone and inserted a 12mm threaded rod to act as a pin. I glued (well, resin bonded) the threaded rod into place. And slid the two halves together In a couple of the boulders in the trial holes I drilled, the sandstone split. I don't want to repeat that experience when I do it for real on the doorpost. To make the holes, I used a cheap generic 14mm drill bit and a hand-held Bosch drill. How can I reduce the chance of splitting the sandstone on the doorpost? As I see it, I have a good chance of making the problem worse - splitting even more of the sandstone out of the doorpost.
