I’ve got the week off from school, but I took my one allowed nap last Thursday after school and have been a busy boy this week.
First up, birthday present for a RPG player
Someone brought in sets of 12 pentagons cut from 10 gauge steel and offered them up to us students. Some refused, thinking it an impossible folly. Some saw a dodecahedron and did it for the challenge. I saw a 12-sided die and immediately knew someone who’d want one.
I, in return, challenged the guy who brought these in to get me 20 equilateral triangles so I could build an icosahedron (aka: a 20-sided die).
What I really wanted to build was a vessel for the RPG player’s dice collection, but I’m still floundering on a hidden/flush mounted latching system for the door. I’m still trying to figure out how to incorporate a latch from one of those CD players with a lid that pops up when you press on it or something similar. Maybe in the not too distant future.
Also, I built one of these again.
The top is 16″ long on each side and it is 26″ tall. The base is from the clutch of a VW Jetta.
I have two more nearly fully laid out that I’m hoping to weld up today. I’m figuring that I put 12 hours into each one, what with all the cleaning of the various pieces (especially the chains). After welding up the tops today, I’m going to scope out how many pieces I have left over that are already clean and may do a third one over the weekend. These ones will be different in that they are C-shaped.
If that description is lacking, I will hopefully be able to show you Sunday or Monday after I get a helper over giving me a second set of eyes to make sure the legs and feet are squared up.
Do you need a tow truck to move those things? They look a mite heavy… seriously neato, but heavy.
They’re about 40-60lbs, depending on the base and leg. I use one of those little wooden dollies from China Freight to move them around. Or a handtruck if I’m feeling really lazy.
One of the guys from class gave me the clutch plate from his Cummins. THAT is going to be a heavy table.
I always warn the folks that buy these to NOT let their kids play around these tables. A child would have to work really hard to hurt these things, but all that has to work for the table to harm the child is gravity.
http://www.rockler.com/magnetic-push-latch
Ooh! I get to use gorilla glue!
Thanks, Phssthpok
Get a set or two of the hidden-type of kitchen cabinet spring-loaded hinges.
I was thinking more along the lines of hinging one ‘side’ and bridging the opposing ‘point’ with something like a small piece of 3/16 plate that you could drill and tap for machine screws…
But Gorilla Glue works too! 😉