Thread 2941317

Whats wrong with my table its rickety as shit

I bet you used western tools. You should have used Japanese tools, dumbass.

weird, looks like the japanese demons have clear paths to ground, the two front diagonal supports might need their rotational freedom arrested.

I'm gonna put more triangles on the front see what that does
But i don't think anything will overcome that its too tall narrow and light to be real sturdy.
Gonna try something squatter wider and with 4x4 legs before i try this flimsy crap again, i thought triangles were supposed to be strong

triangles are strong, you just used them wrong like a dumbass.

>>2941317 (OP)
I'll fold you like a pretzel and fuck you rihht on that rickety table, fag

>>2941426
Yes I sure did , how would you know if ur triangles are gonna be good or not ?
I’ll try a table like ur picture I’ve seen those before hell we have one

>>2941317 (OP)
It was built by a troll as a troll.

>>2941317 (OP)
I know larp but

>>2941542
how do i make the x's ? i was trying to avoid any complicated joinery, but it turned out like shit so gotta do something different. I'm like Thomas Edison I'm just figuring out what doesn't work.
I'm wondering if a shelf down near the horizontal braces would help with the racking.
I'm afraid its a lost cause but they made bridges out of popsicle sticks in school i wanna do that.

>>2941572
>how do i make the x's ?
Shit man just overlap the wood and drive 4 screws in a square in the middle of the X
It's not heavy duty so doesn't need to be crazy, but you just have to keep in mind anything that can be pulled or pushed needs to have a counter force keeping it in place

>>2941317 (OP)
bracing is useful against torsional moments
what it cannot do is make up for bowing or bending
i suggest your legs are too thin
adding more bracing might help, not because its reducing torsion but because you might accidentally add a horizontal member between legs at the half way point which will reduce bending.

the other point is that your fixings are all single nail? a triangle is strong because for any given 3 fixed length sides, the angles can't change. unlike a square can turn into a rhombus. but if your legs are bending then the effective length of the triangle sides can/does change and therefore the angle can change. if you added more nails or screws at the joins it would impede the change in angle which would strengthen the bending member.

>>2941317 (OP)
The table has 6 degrees of freedom so it needs 6 legs

okay i scrapped the shitty table for now and made this as an experiment, much much much sturdier, real happy with it even though the notches took a lot of time to make.
probably gonna supersize this design into a babbies first workbench

darn orientation

>>2941957
good job anon, most don't bother to rectify their iphonefaggery

>>2941317 (OP)
I don't see the path, shed, or house...
Can someone please help?!?

>>2941317 (OP)
I think your issue is that every connection is a rotary joint

>>2941958
>>2941957
Exceedingly nice table.

>>2941426
If triangles are strong how am I able to beat the pussy up every night?

>>2942162
That was a big problem before I attached the shoddy triangles , but the triangles did their job actually the legs don’t have much play in the planes theyre braced against
It’s really the twisting and the front unbraced legs that are the biggest problems
I don’t understand racking well enough to say if that’s a problem rn

>>2942163
And ty anon

>>2942161
Shed is way down the line, thinking of putting a freestanding roof in the corner for garden tools for the time being

>>2941955
Crop the photo ever so slightly after rotating. Phones store rotation as metadata but cropping forces it to resave the file.

>>2942394
hmm