As stated after much deliberation of how to make the table a fold away, we have a mission complete status.
Originally we were gonna go for a 2 sided board one side green and the other blue, obviously for land and sea. We were going to achieve this by having 2 panels of 6'x2' and counter sinking the hinges so the 2 panels would make a 6x4' board but fold nicely away, easy I hear you say.
Well very early on we decided, well tbh, I decided sod it, we will use cloth mats. But the idea of counter sinking the hinges never got altered.
Any ways to cut a long boring story down into a short boring one, some idiot went and bought hinges without fully checking they open through basically 360°, (that'll be me. So that when we looked to fix them onto said wood they wouldn't close / open as planned.
This caused much debate on whether to try and alter hinges to work or to buy more. This is promise is very near the end now.
At about 11.30pm tonight, well yesterday now. I had a "MOMENT OF CLARITY" realising that A) we didn't need to counter sinking hinges and 2) (yes A&2, done deliberately, all you grammar nazi types out there) if we used only 2 hinges separated just far enough apart the dining table would slot between them. Just not having a 3rd in the middle of the panels, creating a ramp effect with a gap in it. Seeing as they are door hinges, there should be enough strength to carry the weight, while its opened up and placed down.
Hoorah table is now sorted, next for me to sort is hills,trees, buildings, rivers and roads etc.
A certain part of that is aimed at me, isn't it? Since it wasn't me that bought the hinges that only leaves one bit that I could be talking about.
ReplyDeleteI'm too buzzed about getting the table sorted to really care!
Yes and no lol, the readers will love the banter :-P
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