How to make a folding wooden table with your own hands

Sometimes, it is better and cheaper to make a folding wooden table with your own hands than buying ready. In this case, it is possible to set the necessary dimensions and use quality materials. Durable wooden dining table folding, solve the problem of organizing space and free space in the kitchen or living room.

Very comfortable and popular in the apartment will be a book desk. It perfectly copes with the function of a large dining table and in the assembled state takes very little space. For the manufacture of such a table, it takes quite a bit of time and materials.

Sliding Dining table made of wood

Detailing and preparation for the assembly of folding dining table

1. The canvas for tabletop folding table is better to buy ready. You will need three components. Two cloths of LDSP dimensions 450x750 mm and one removable part 400x750 mm with a standard thickness of 18 mm. You can cut in size right in the store. The Tamember can be purchased a melamine flexible flexible tape under the color of the tabletop. The edge to the end is welded with a hot iron and levels a sharp knife for plasterboard.
2. You can order a tabletop from a veneered wooden board. Wood will suit any - pine, beech or more expensive solid varieties. In this case, the countertop is required to additionally treat the versa and varnish. The legs are made from the bar 45x45 mm. In the joinery workshop you are swoosen on the shap. Lower size can be set 25x25 mm. The approximate height of the table is 735 mm, and the height of the legs in this case will be 715 mm.
3. For a frame and base of the folding table, a plywood of 20 mm thick and boards will be required - 2 pcs. On the sidewalls from the end of 830x120 mm and 4 pcs. On the longitudinal sidewalls frames 420x120 mm. You still need wood screws (4x50 and 4x16), sewage and 8x30 and furniture metal corner 30x30. For the table layout mechanism, acquire ticking guides. Such are used in drawers. It will take two right and two left guides with a length of 300 mm.
4. Before the beginning of the assembly, it is recommended to polish all the details, to impregnate them with a verse and open with varnish. After drying the varnish, the details are once again skyringed with shallow emery paper and revealed with varnish.

Assembling folding dining table

1. A rectangular frame frame, end parts and planks are assembled from the planks, focused on the extreme level of sidewall. The legs are fixed by self-drawing in the corners of the box, are strengthened with metal corners and finally clamped with screeds.
2. Sliding parts of the countertops are set on the frame plane, serifs are made on the mating surfaces and the holes for the waders are dried, the diameter of the standard drum is 8 mm, the hole must be not deeper than 25 mm. Install the ducts on PVA glue in a checker order. The ducts on the middle countertop are installed, focusing on the halves of the main table top.
3. Two p-shaped frames are collected from the boards intended for the table top. On them and the frame base are mounted by the terminals of the guides for the sliding mechanism. Stoles are right and left-sided, pay attention to it. Divide them into two parts, a wide guide is attached to the sidewalls of a stationary frame, and narrow-response polls on the p-shaped rolling part of the table tops. Next, the polls are snapped into the grooves, and the ease of course is checked. On the axes of the guides there are adjustment screws.

Table - book with your own hands

The transformers include the table book. This is a very convenient and practical version of the folding table. You can make it with your own hands for one day, it does not take up much space in the assembled state and can be used as a full folding tabletop.

1. According to the drawing (see photo), detail is made. For the manufacture of a book table, it is better to use LDSP. You can cut the blanks in the building store, so end sections will be much smaller and cleaner. For the table top, you will need two plates with a size of 70.5x80 cm and one 35x80 cm. All moving parts, including retractable support legs, are attached to piano loops.
2. The optimal height of the table is 75 cm. Based on this size, the 4x4 cm timber is harvested, 2x4 cm rails for legs and a transformer table frame. For sidewall, cut from LDSP two hundreds of 35x73 cm.
3. The end sides are decorated with the melamine edge chosen by the surface of the table top. The edge of 2 cm wide is applied to the end of the countertop and strokes the hot iron. Speakers excess the welded edge are removed by a sharp mounting knife.
4. The box of the main frame side is going to confirm. Drill 5 mm, on the markup, dried in planes through holes, and in the end to a depth to 50 mm. On the plane holes, the chamfer was removed with a 8 mm drill, so that the confirm head is flush with the plane of the LDSP. Then it is masked by a special plastic plug. For the stability of the frame of the frame, the kings or furniture metal corners are installed in the corners.
5. The frame is put on the front side on the floor and all the width on both sides is fastened with minor screws a solid piano loop. It is summed up with the right and left wing of table tops, and also fastened with screws from the back side.
6. Before starting to make a blank table legs, a timber and rails should be seized, ripped under the main color of the table and covered with varnish. From a 4x4 cm timber, a pair of p-shaped legs are made. For strength and stability from the rail 2x4 cm, a slash diagonal or direct crossing and fixing the kings is inserted. One of the vertical sides of the leg is attached to the box of the frame of the piano loop.

For better safety, small plastic disserval can be fill on all reference surfaces. There is an option when the folding table is put on the roller legs. So it is much more convenient to transport around the apartment.