How big is your picnic table? There's room for 16 people? The new popular octagonal and hexagonal picnic tables these days can be very large. And 'nice because it can accommodate as many of your friends and family. And big is beautiful!
There is a slight disadvantage, but for large tables, and this is what food or drink to the center or side of the table can not be achieved without having to get up and stretch everything.
The solution: a Lazy Susan! Chineseused widely in their banquet rooms, where the tables are too large. This is a simple answer to a frustrating challenge.
They can be purchased but can not match the table you have, especially if the table itself had done. If you've done a great picnic table with octagonal octagonal segments placed on the table, it would be great for a matching Lazy Susan.
The following is a program for a game table octagon picnic table with a measuring successapproximately 6'8 "through the sides parallel.
Materials needed for a large octagonal picnic table
Wood
1 / 2 "plywood 50" * 50 "square suitable for outdoor use.
6 * 1 1 / 2 32 'pressure treated pine dry
2 "* 4 '13" 2 * 4 "dry treated pine
Nails / screws
3 "nails 32 gal
1 1 / 2 "screws 128
Turntable rotate a 12 "to 14"
Tools Required
1) a power compound miter saw.
2) a circular
3) a drill andsaws hole for the umbrella.
4) Hammer.
5) the measuring tape. Airplanes small hand. Adjustable square. Pencil.
6) cordless drill with all the screws in the screw
Step by step the construction
Step 1
2 * 4 precision cut in half with a circular saw. Now you get 2 pieces 2 "* 2". If you have an electric piano, see the cut smooth. Now cut into 8 pieces 19 "with angles of 45 degrees. And 'outside the frame.
Sure that the side cutdown, so the cuts do not see visible.
Step 2
Arrange the pieces on a flat surface in an octagonal shape and nail them together.
Step 3
Place the frame on the plywood and measure with precision corner to corner until you reach the frame perfectly "square". Once you are right that a pencil line around the inside of the frame to the draw of plywood. (NB: If there are holes in the outer corners of the frame, you need to do a little 'light, because this is what we'll see.)
Step 4
Transfer of plywood on a bench and cut exactly along the line with a circular saw. Perfectly with the plane by hand. Now you have a perfect octagon to fit exactly 2 * 2 frame. Put in the frame on a flat surface and arrange the lines between opposite corners of the plywood
Step 5
Now measure each dish, cut and serve outside the range of 6 * 1 1 / 2 on aircraft leading toprize. Do not nail anything. When the external drive is a full start on the next series and then the next until every heart is full. Be precise with the cuts are necessary to ensure that everything fits together without gaps.
Step 6
Nail 2 nails through each section of the frame in the line outside the 6 * 1 1 / 2 Now the Lazy Susan. Draw lines between the corners. Take a piece of 6 * 1 1 / 2 to use as a guide and pull the plates would be on the other side. Making each dish againbecause it gives you a guide on where to put the screws.
If you know where all the screws out, screw the plywood to the Lazy Susan tight spot. In this way, there are no nails or screws showing on the Lazy Susan spot.
Step 7
Turn it so that the climb is right. You must see clearly where the center of the umbrella hole goes. Use the hole saw the hole umbrella.
Step 8
Center for the turntable rotates accurately and screwplace.
Now you have a Lazy Susan in your food and drinks effortlessly around the great octagonal table of transport.