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| DrewKaree:
Yep. It'll be stouter to turn the "skis" on their sides, but you can always unscrew the screws and re-do it if you think the skis laid flat are almost perfect but you want a touch more sturdiness. If the skis laid flat idea works, then no worries at all, and you're on your way |
| hulkster:
well i dont see how turning the skis on their sides would make it more stable. they wouldnt be resting up against anything, they would just kinda be standing upright held in by i guess L brackets...not sturdy. |
| DrewKaree:
Alright, you're not following me, I can see that. You wouldn't need a single L bracket at all, in fact, it would be a waste of money to even throw them in there. You would be buying a larger-than-the-opening 2x-whatever, with the "whatever measurement being trimmed in order to fit it into the opening, and then screwing into that from either the top or the bottom to hold it into place. The way I'm describing it, the 2x would be touching both the top and the bottom of the opening, one on each side, giving you strength and support on BOTH the top and the bottom, and also keeping it from tipping either back or forward. Done properly, screws might not even be necessary, and it'd STILL work. Your skis laid flat idea, unless your CP base opening is exactly the height of the shorter dimension of a 2x, won't be as sturdy and will allow your CP to rock backwards a touch. Maybe sturdy enough for your purposes, in which case it will work perfectly. I don't know what I'm missing in my explanation of my idea, but my idea is strength by physics, not with L-brackets. Hopefully your idea worked. Let us know what you did so we can learn from you. |
| hulkster:
okay, i finally understand what you are saying...BUT....it wont work. the monitor base opening is like 6" high...no problem...but the cp base is completely wide open. the opening is about as high as the coin door, so i can just stick some boards in there. if you remember from my earlier comments about how i screwed up in the beginning by making the cp base too high, and having to cut off the stablizing section of the cp base, this is why i have a huge opening in the back and why i cant do what you are talking about. still, screwing two boards into the bottoms of each of the bases will not be a big task. i went to home depot yesterday to get the boards, but they wouldnt fit in my car, so im going to have to do it next week some time. ill keep you updated. |
| hulkster:
okay i know its been like 8 years since i asked this question, but i finally got some of this done. i got some boards and layed them across the bottom of my cp base and monitor base and drilled them in. it helped a little, but it was still wobbly. although i was a lot more confident that it wouldnt topple over or anything because it is now attached. so then i decided to get some cinder blocks and put them in the cp base. of course they wouldnt fit, so i had to break them up with a hammer. so i put broken up pieces of two cinder blocks in the base, and now its quite a bit more solid, but still a little bit wobbly...but not much. im thinking about getting some sand bags and maybe that would be better. any thoughts?? |
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