How can I repair this table?

Question

I recently inherited a table. It is rather heavy with a solid maple top. Two of its legs have failed at their attachment points (one was fastened with a hanger bolt and the other with a machine bolt & threaded insert, which I was told was installed after that leg's hanger bolt failed). Here are those two legs (I do not know why there are screws driven into them):

Here is one of the remaining legs, which appears to be splitting:

I have 4 replacement legs that I've already notched out to the same dimensions as the old legs, and I was planning on removing all current legs and re-bolting the new ones to the corner braces. However, the table's skirt is splintering at one corner, and the corrugated fastener holding the apron in place also looks suspect.

If I hanger-bolt the new legs on, won't they just fail again? Should I through-bolt them instead? Will the damaged corner continue disintegrating? I have limited access to tools right now and a very limited budget. I'm not looking for a perfect fix, just a sturdy table.

Thank you for any help and guidance you can provide!

Answer 1

I don't believe that corner is a concern.

If you have the missing wood pieces from the legs, you can wood glue them and that might hold; that stuff is really strong.

If you don't have the wood pieces, I would recommend drilling holes in the legs and running a carriage bolt in from the outside or a countersunk hex head would be ok too.

Answer 2

Find the broken pieces and glue them back on as good as you can.

remove the threaded inserts and drill those holes deeper until they go almost all the way through the legs, then use epoxy to glue in lengths of threaded rod ("all thread")

Then once the epoxy has set, to attach the legs to the tabletop, use a wing nut and a washer on the threaded rod. (so be sure to epoxy the rod in straight)