04-23-2013, 09:04 AM
With the wings I drew many many pictures of different designs. I thought of pull out like a draw but because of the shape of the tray and the size of the sides of the tray it wouldn't work. I drew up plans for having 25mm square tube mounted to the base of the mill as a support, but the ark wouldn't fit in to have enough support or it wouldn't fold out of the way enough.
The way it turned out is great because the whole lot can be taken outside to be decreased which was my plan all along after cleaning out the filthy coolant in the base of the mil.
It was pure luck that I ended up with square tube as supports as I was going to use round until I got to the aluminum supplier and said you don't have anything under 25mm square that slides in each other do you, preferably around 12-16mm. He replied we have some balustrade square but it has round edges and I have never tried it together. We walked out the back and we both tried it and it fitted perfectly and the round was on the outside of the outer tube which didn't effect me at all, so I took a length of each home.
Dave
The way it turned out is great because the whole lot can be taken outside to be decreased which was my plan all along after cleaning out the filthy coolant in the base of the mil.
It was pure luck that I ended up with square tube as supports as I was going to use round until I got to the aluminum supplier and said you don't have anything under 25mm square that slides in each other do you, preferably around 12-16mm. He replied we have some balustrade square but it has round edges and I have never tried it together. We walked out the back and we both tried it and it fitted perfectly and the round was on the outside of the outer tube which didn't effect me at all, so I took a length of each home.
Dave