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| | | Re: Platform bed plans? Ideas? | Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 95 journeyman | journeyman Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 95 | I designed the sub box (3/4 MDF) to act as the front support and match the height of the tops of the wheel wells. A small frame was mounted on top & covered with 3/4 plywood. The back was used stricly for storage. Easily holding a hydraulic jack, spare & room for other supplies. 2 Amplifiers, an active crossover, 6 disc changer and 1100 CCA optima deep cycle fit as well. Doing the wiring was alittle cumbersome, but is neatly out of harm's way. Here's a pick when I was working on the wiring - Instead of carpet, I covered the floor in the (diamond plate patterned) gridded foam padding you can by for a gym / shop floor. It cleaned it up very nicely & gave an almosy non-skip surface. Pops is a wood guy & did the frame / piano hinge door to mathch the rest of the wood work. Nothing new, just a little different. | | | Re: Platform bed plans? Ideas? | Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 3,434 | Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 3,434 | You know I had an old bunk bed that I slept on at home for a long time that had 1x2 slats as the support and a frame and I never came crashing through that. I guess it makes sense if you have a mattress that fits right over it, but you could just lay plywood over that. Just throwing ideas out there from an actual bed. Uncle blaino said he built his bed out of 1x1 and 1x2s. I believe it. It's just like a bridge the important part is the superstructure (supports underneath) it doesn't take 2x6s to make it sturdy. A lot of bridges use triangles as it's the strongest shape for that sort of thing. Not sure how that would work on a bed but you get the idea.
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| | | Re: Platform bed plans? Ideas? | Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 6,261 Bad Girls from New York, Bad Western Inn in IN. | Bad Girls from New York, Bad Western Inn in IN. Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 6,261 | After years of judging 'fluffy nests' in VANs--I have learned and tried to impress upon you all the importance of the bed-to-ceiling ratio in proportion to the length of the legs of the persons using said bed (usually the female measurement!) The one in the Red Flamingo is on 1x6s and plywood--center support--open underneath and off to the left is a slot that runs the length of the bed frame to hold tarp poles! Lots of storage, poles don't roll around and I have a real mattress in my VAN--the long way, no foam for me!
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| | | Re: Platform bed plans? Ideas? | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 28,125 Madman! | Madman! Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 28,125 | Stormy, that is just too Sweet! I love it! | | | Re: Platform bed plans? Ideas? | Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 95 journeyman | journeyman Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 95 | Thanks, but I don't get all the credit. | | | Re: Platform bed plans? Ideas? | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 7,003 carpal tunnel | carpal tunnel Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 7,003 | Do I get some too? I might as well grab it since Quin hates these fancy talkin machines and will never know! Shhhhhhhhh LOL | | | Re: Platform bed plans? Ideas? | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 28,125 Madman! | Madman! Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 28,125 | Do I get some too? since Quin hates these fancy talkin machines and will never know! Shhhhhhhhh LOL Does this mean this is Quin's son? | | | Re: Platform bed plans? Ideas? | Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 95 journeyman | journeyman Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 95 | You betcha Superbeast!
LOL Snotty. I installed the 6disc changer, amps & subs so pops could finally ring in the 90's!! | | | Re: Platform bed plans? Ideas? | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 7,003 carpal tunnel | carpal tunnel Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 7,003 | Yup Ken you prolly met him at the nats and didnt even know it, he was the judge for the model show... tallll dude. I hear ya Nate, how ya gonna break him into the 2000's? mp3? O M G! | | |
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