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Plywood Bunk Bed
I do not recommend simply screwing this assembly together. There are a variety of ways to attach the members such as glueing, glue and screw, metal angles with screws, specialty hardware etc. Before ...
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Increasing the weight capacity of a meek table
I recommend that you keep shopping and find a table that is designed to support your required weight.
The boards used in the table are made to a thickness and of a material type that have been given a ...
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Would 4 post legs work on an 8' x 40" x 1" table?
The short answer is "you are probably good to go"
The more elaborate answer is "it depends"
The depends part is based on the likely loading of the table top. An ideal tool for helping with the ...
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Are there any non obvious (specifically structural) concerns to building a walk-in wardrobe
I would recommend constructing the center and right pieces as freestanding cabinets. that are built in your shop space and moved to position completed. That way they will have internal structural ...
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How to increase maximum load capacity of a table?
First of all, the 110 pounds they say for that desk almost certainly is being very conservative, it will probably actually hold at least twice that. That being said, we can look at the ways it can ...
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Building a Dimensionally Stable Panel Using MDF and Plywood
Are you going to be in an environment with large fluctuations of humidity and temperature, perhaps outside the range of comfortable human habitation?
This is just a gut feeling, based on secondary ...
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How to build a stable heavy bag stand for kickboxing?
Basically, you're building a swing set for a single swing with a 200lb rider. The difference is that this swing can go a full 360° instead of just back-and-forth.
Treating this as a "shelf" and using ...
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Making a modern chaise on two cylinder legs stability issues
The design and construction is inherently unstable.
You would do better to remove the 1x material and build the platform with two or three layers of plywood laminated together using glue and screws. ...
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Making a modern chaise on two cylinder legs stability issues
There's a few things going on that will make this feel less stable.
First, and I'm not 100% sure about this, so possibly ignore, but it looks like in copying the design, you've stretched the main deck ...
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Improving sag resistance of MDF shelves
As clarified in the Comments, the back panel is thick enough MDF that fastening in through from the back is viable and that alone will do quite a bit to resist any tendency towards sagging.
If you ...
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Improving sag resistance of MDF shelves
You could stiffen them up by nailing or screwing a 1/2" x 1" or 3/4" x 1 1/2" hardwood strip across the underside of the front edge of each shelf.
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Suggestions to attach these coffee table legs
To maintain current size there are few options.
The existing system we must guess was good enough when the table was new. Perhaps screws got loose and were not tightened? And the pocket screws appear ...
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Will this modified Stickley desk be stable enough?
I'm wondering whether or not this design will be stable enough.
The design without any front rail should be fine.
Most of the forces exerted during use are transferred directly down to the floor ...
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Suggestions to attach these coffee table legs
I procrastinated this for quite a while but ended up going a completely different direction from what I was thinking initially. Couldn't find an elegant way to connect the legs with the original style ...
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How do I stop the table I built from wobbling/shaking side to side?
You need triangles. Triangles make all the difference and make things stronger.
Something like this would make a huge difference, though it isn't ideal for a table you sit at.
However braces on ...
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Wood type for bunk bed structure
I am now wondering if plywood is the best wood choice.
For certain parts of this, very much so (assuming plywood of decent quality).
While I suppose technically every piece of this could be made from ...
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Recommendations for making bench more sturdy?
Just putting a couple triangles in a couple corners on the back would stiffen it up A LOT. as long as the triangles were well fastened to both a vertical and horizontal piece. Even some 1/4" ...
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Making a modern chaise on two cylinder legs stability issues
Now the issue happens to be when I sit on one end the legs are tilting a bit which tells me it's pulling the other end.
How much does your version weigh? The one from West Elm says that it weighs 154 ...
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Suggestions to attach these coffee table legs
Corner braces like these are a very common way to attach legs. They're attractive for commercial furniture because they create a strong joint that's easy to assemble and disassemble, so you can ship ...
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Improving sag resistance of MDF shelves
So this is what I did.
Added screws from the back for each shelf:
Screwed a 2mm thick and 25mm wide Aluminum strip to the front of each shelf. I also put tension on the Aluminum so it would ...
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How to build a stable heavy bag stand for kickboxing?
The structure I designed below seems stable enough on paper...
I would disagree with your appraisal. For clarity I refer to the direction of the triangular base pieces as 'front/back' and the ...
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How do I fix a wobbly bench?
Your suggestion of diagonal braces is spot-on. You'll get the best results by having two braces spaced as far apart as practical. This will triangulate the structure as completely as you can. It doesn'...
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Building a Dimensionally Stable Panel Using MDF and Plywood
Can one laminate an MDF panel to plywood and still maintain dimensional stability?
I'm not sure why would you might have thought that combining two dimensionally stable products would somehow ...
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Monkey Bar / Play structure design question
Large (1/4" x 2" or bigger - personally I'd probably go 3/8" x 3") lag bolts with washers. You'll definitely want to drill pilot holes and will probably need an impact driver to get them in.
Or ...
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How to increase maximum load capacity of a table?
I can see two ways this table could fail under load. Either the leg joints could fail (resulting in either racking or the legs splaying) or the surface could bow and break.
For the first issue, I ...
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horizontal stability of a table
Well, if this were a woodworking question, which it should have been, there are a few standard answers:
1) Add an apron, i.e. a frame of boards surrounding the table just below the top. These often ...
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