BILLY BOY’S WORKSHOP

Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1932, Page 20 (Supplement)

BILLY BOY’S WORKSHOP

MAKING A FOLDING CARD TABLE.

To make a folding card table, you require a few lengths of one and aquarter inch by five-eighths of an meh batten; a piece of three-ply wood (21 inches square) for the top; two halfinch dowel rods, and one or two odd pieces of wood. Having cut the plywood top to the right size, trim the edges square and smooth them with a glasspaper block. Next take the batten and from this cut two pieces 21 inches long and nail them underneath the plywood top, on opposite sides and flush with the edges, as at AA. Use brads about three-quarters of an inch long and hammer them in through the stable top. Cut two more battens, 88, to fit between the parts AA, and nail them in place flush with the edges. Note that the wider surfaces of these battens are against the plywood.- . , »For the legs, cut four pieces of batten 32 inches long. Round off one end of each, and cut the' other ends at an angle so that they will rest flat on the floor when the table is in use. Clamp the four legs together. Then with a brace and half-inch bit, make a hole right through the middle, as shown at C,° and mark lines across to indicate the positions of the cross-pieces DD.

mHmimiiiMMHHHiiMHHiiiiiiiiiitiiiinMtnmtiiiinHHiM”*’ 1 Now separate the legs and, at a distauce of five-eighths of an inch from the top ends of two of the number, make half-inch holes. Make ordinary screw holes through the top ends of the other two legs. . Cut two pieces of dowel rod, one Ivf inches long, and the other ISJ inches long. At the same time, cut two pieces of batten DD to the same lengths as the dowel rods. . Screw the ends of the outer legs to the inside of the framing, as shown in diagram >E, and then nail on one of the cross-pieces D, so that the legs are perfectly parallel. Take the inner pair of legs, glue the ends of the shorter dowel rod in the holes in the tops, and nail them on the other cross-piece. Make sure that these legs fold easily when assembled. Then push the longer dowel rod through the central holes, and glue and pin the ends of the rod securely to the outer legs. The inner legs need an easy turning fit on the rod. To clamp the table top, when in use, make a button, F, out of a piece of oak three-sixteenths of an inch in' thickness. This turns under t'he dowel rod, as , shown in diagram G, arid holds tne table top securely. The table top can be -covered with green baize a piece being cut of sufficient size to allow half an inch to be turned down all round. After sticking this in place, smooth it down w;ell and cover the edges with strips of thin wood lath nailed on, as indicated in the first diagram. All the woodwork can be finished with dark oak varnish stain. The Hut Carpenter.