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SavannahLion

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Folding Table Legs
« on: February 22, 2011, 10:55:50 am »
I've been thinking about making a table top game (just tossing ideas around) and I was thinking of making the legs fold under the table for transport/storage. However, the only table I know of that does this are those picnic-type tables. I drew up a prototype idea in Sketchup but it strikes me as being somewhat flimsy, eg not very steady. I fiddled around with a few versions but without actually constructing the table (and wasting money, time and lumber) I can't tell if they're solid or not.

Are there existing plans for making a table with folding legs? I Googled around quite a bit and many tables employ either the collapsible picnic table style legs (out of thin metal tubing) or legs that criss-cross to make an X shape (wood).

I thought of a traditional design using carriage bolts that I can remove (which most of my Sketchup designs use in some fashion anyways) but that strikes me as a bit of a hassle having to undo X number of carriage bolts. I'll bet money a table like that is going to be set up once, never to be collapsed. Or be put away one time, never to be used again.

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Re: Folding Table Legs
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2011, 11:02:19 am »
Several folding leg brackets here...

http://www.rockler.com/c/metal-table-legs-brackets.cfm

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Re: Folding Table Legs
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2011, 02:37:04 pm »
Oh yeah, I totally forgot my card tables. That's really similar to those brackets on those tables.