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:	post by the_taste_of_cigarettes at 2004-09-21 01:01:01

I fought alex on the lack of center support the whole time we built it, but I think in retrospect it's a pretty decent contraption...

Essentially we took a cut section out of a sheet of this layered wood (I forgetwhat you call it, but it's like several thin layers of wood in sheets glued together, or pressed together?" and made a bass that fits between the behind of the wheel wells and the door frame. We screwed 2x4s to that for two of the legs. We then cut two 2x4s to sit on the wheel well, then made cross supports that go from leg to leg at the base of the wheel well supports to the middle of the other leg, and then at the top of the legs on each side to each other. This way the middle is still open.

Next we added reinforcements to the legs to make them more stable as far as cross supports. Then we added a second set of leg (from an old bed frame) to the wheel well supports to prevent the sides from tipping in. We stuffed foam under the leg sections and behind them to protect the window and suppress noise.

The main bed support is really thick wood (that layered wood) between two strips of longer wood. This rests on top of the leg supports (imagine two horseshoes with a board on top of them). Then we screwed all sorts of "stops" (wood blocks located at the end of the leg supports and on the center board itself) to prevent it from moving in directions we didn't want it to move.

The part that bummed me out was the lack of support in the middle of the bed, where the center of gravity of a person is...this part gets the most stress when a person lies in bed (most beds have a "dip" in the middle as a show of this effect). However, Alex recognizes this now and is going to put a steel bar underneath the board so it will be reinforced.

This way, the bed is removable when we need to put bigger stuff in there.

The mattress is from a cot and rests on top.

voila

Beats that box I'm sure you've seen...the evil, evil box...

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