| [GMCnet] Self storing table [message #157810] |
Mon, 23 January 2012 20:18 |
Gerald Work
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Kevin and others interested. The key to making a self storing table that articulates up against the wall is any kind of mechanism that will keep the pivot point on the hinge attached to the table moving up and down parallel with the wall. Since the table is longer than the distance from the table when deployed to the floor, to get the table to store flat against the wall the pivot point has to move up as the free end of the table moves down to go into the stored position.
I built two long sliding dovetail assemblies to do this but you can just as easily use heavy drawer slides or linear bearing assemblies. Measure the length of the leg (which is the distance from the floor to the bottom of the table) and then remove the table from the wall and stand it up against the wall with the free end down. Mark where the level of the bottom of the table hits the table. These two measurements will give the info you need to establish the lever arm pivot points. One end of the lever arm mounts to the bottom of the table and the other mounts to your vertical slide assembly. In use, fold up the leg and allow the free end of the table to move downward. The hinge end of the table will be force by the lever arms to move up parallel with the wall.
Jerry (now in Quartzite early as it was stormy in Joshua Tree NM and Cottonwood camp ground was closed due to earlier flooding)
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