I've been working on a "planter wagon". Made entirely of white oak and using Elmer's Ultimate poly glue. I became suspicious of the strength of a glue joint this morning and started looking real hard at them. Went through the scraps and cut-offs that had glue joints in them. Every one of these joints is going to fail because the glue didn't perform.
I can go back and re-do the wagon box and seat without too much time and effort. What makes me sick is the wheels. They're done and ready for final sanding. The outer rim of the wheel was constructed using 8/4 stock and then cutting eight equal pieces to shape with the ends mitered so that when you lay all eight together you form a circle. The pieces are edge glued together with a spline in them to help me line them up during gluing. The splines were 1/4" thick which is fairly thick but won't hold that joint by itself.
Any ideas on how to save the wheels? The front wheels are 17" in diameter, the back ones are 24" in diameter. Right now I'm thinking of making a steel rim to fit tight to the outer circumference and hope that holds the wheel together when the glue fails, but right now I'm just sick and that may not be a good solution.
Any ideas and thoughts would be greatly appreciated. (there's four bottles of Elmer's Ultimate in my trash)