Whilst waiting for a delivery today I decided that I would remake my drying rack which can be seen in this thread. The main problem with it was that it took up too much space and the arms weren't rigid enough.
I liked the idea of using the plastic conduit for the arms so got a 2 lengths of 16mm OD steel tube which fits nicely inside the 20mm conduit. I cut the tube into 500mm pieces and the conduit into 650mm lengths - I found that this gave a rigid enough support.
The uprights are a couple of pieces of 3 x 2" which I drilled on the drill press with the table at a slight angle so that the supports are all pointing slightly up. The holes were drilled almost to the full depth leaving enough wood to stop the tubes going all the way through - like the MK I version.
I then made an adjustable cross bracing out of a piece of 30 x 5mm flat mild steel held together with M10 bolts. The top of the brace is fixed and the bottom runs in a slot routed into a piece of 18mm mdf. The original wheels were added to the base.
The rack can now be adjusted to any width from about 300mm up to about 1300mm.
The idea for the adjustable cross brace came from a commercially available drying rack which are being sold on ebay. However to make your own will cost quite a lot less!
I liked the idea of using the plastic conduit for the arms so got a 2 lengths of 16mm OD steel tube which fits nicely inside the 20mm conduit. I cut the tube into 500mm pieces and the conduit into 650mm lengths - I found that this gave a rigid enough support.
The uprights are a couple of pieces of 3 x 2" which I drilled on the drill press with the table at a slight angle so that the supports are all pointing slightly up. The holes were drilled almost to the full depth leaving enough wood to stop the tubes going all the way through - like the MK I version.
I then made an adjustable cross bracing out of a piece of 30 x 5mm flat mild steel held together with M10 bolts. The top of the brace is fixed and the bottom runs in a slot routed into a piece of 18mm mdf. The original wheels were added to the base.
The rack can now be adjusted to any width from about 300mm up to about 1300mm.
The idea for the adjustable cross brace came from a commercially available drying rack which are being sold on ebay. However to make your own will cost quite a lot less!
