Garage Shop Mobile Lowrider v3

[bitingmidge (Peter H)]

I’ve had some parallel thoughts - although I’ve just divided the table into three parts. You might be interested in my “hold down” thoughts - to enable you to flip the boards over as well.

LR2-LR3 The Longest Conversion (AUS)

A smarter man than me might have just used a 16mm top skin like he did last time, and wouldn’t keep second guessing himself. I had planned to simply double up the cross beams at 500mm centres to give myself a bit of screwing leeway for the spoil board(s), but realistically screwing into the end of MDF is not something you want to do too often and a near miss will result in a certain split. So gluing little landing pieces in was a relaxing way of filling in a small amount of time followed by a…

another development on the same line - you can make custom hold down parts just in one or two sections if you wish, so that you can make your tee tracks on your machine to suit rather than using the commercial ones.

LR2-LR3 The Longest Conversion (AUS)

Well here’s my plan for the slotted panel - 6mm slot on the topside with 12mm diameter holes in the ends. 12mm slots matching below so you can pop in a 6mm carriage bolt and the square bit will bind in the slot. Or you can use regular hex bolts and adjust the slot at the bottom to suit. Of course you can add slots to taste and it’s not costing anything but a bit of machine time. I can’t see the point in spending money on tracks, and while you probably can’t flip this one over - it wo…

I should note that at the moment, while I’m doing other things - the boards are in three sections but no fancy hold downs yet!