Saturday 16 March 2013

Concrete Legs and Metal Brackets




Now that both of the concrete legs have been made they need to be reattached to two remaining legs and the rest of the frame. This was quite tricky and all the ideas that I had previously thought of could not work for various reasons. First brackets were made using old scraps of steel. An L-shape bracket and a flat steel plate were made for each leg. These were screwed into the wood and then the holes were marked onto the concrete legs.



Holes were then drilled into the concrete legs using masonry drill bits, designed to drill into stone. These were made bigger than the screws that were being used with the idea being to fill the holes with a fast-setting epoxy glue and gluing the screws into the concrete as well as gluing the legs onto the brackets.


Now that the legs have been attached the only remaining task is to attach the table top. This will be done using wood glue and the original screws that screwed through the frame and into the table top.

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