Hi,
I've been super busy on a curtain stand project for several weeks on and off. It's finally done! It is for a local robotics society and these curtain stands will be booths for the competition in April. It's a big affair apparently. With a lot of help from their group of volunteers I have made 80 booths consisting of bases small and large, small vertical risers, tall vertical risers, and horizontal bars that are collapsible. @Kris Jensen (hats off man) did the great cut outs for the bases on his CNC Plasma. Here's a bunch of photos. It's about $3000 worth of material.
I had to turn down about 30' of gas pipe to right diameter, cut to length, and weld to the bases. The horizontal sections have a 5' 1" section and a 5' 3/4" section which slides inside the first. The pipes are all electrical conduit we got at a wholesaler for about half what home depot wanted. The ends are EMT couplers and we ended up with a simple dowel with a wood screw to act as the support point. I powder coated the bases and cooked them in two big toaster ovens. Another volunteer is sewing 500m! of fabric into curtains.
It took three Saturdays with about 4 volunteers, plus a bunch of extra time by me, and my spouse helped with the fab too! It was a big job.
Pictures and video!
https://player.vimeo.com/video/146602691
Welding Curtain Stands
I've been super busy on a curtain stand project for several weeks on and off. It's finally done! It is for a local robotics society and these curtain stands will be booths for the competition in April. It's a big affair apparently. With a lot of help from their group of volunteers I have made 80 booths consisting of bases small and large, small vertical risers, tall vertical risers, and horizontal bars that are collapsible. @Kris Jensen (hats off man) did the great cut outs for the bases on his CNC Plasma. Here's a bunch of photos. It's about $3000 worth of material.
I had to turn down about 30' of gas pipe to right diameter, cut to length, and weld to the bases. The horizontal sections have a 5' 1" section and a 5' 3/4" section which slides inside the first. The pipes are all electrical conduit we got at a wholesaler for about half what home depot wanted. The ends are EMT couplers and we ended up with a simple dowel with a wood screw to act as the support point. I powder coated the bases and cooked them in two big toaster ovens. Another volunteer is sewing 500m! of fabric into curtains.
It took three Saturdays with about 4 volunteers, plus a bunch of extra time by me, and my spouse helped with the fab too! It was a big job.
Pictures and video!
https://player.vimeo.com/video/146602691
Welding Curtain Stands
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