Thursday, March 12, 2015

Pneumatic Secret Compartment for Poker Table


My client warned me not to reveal the mechanism of this secret compartment, or he would have to shoot me, a threat I took seriously as the compartment was designed to hide his 45 which would be easily accessible should a poker game turn south. But, of course, this is the West. You see a tug on the perimeter of the table sets the pneumatic lifters, lifted from trunk lifting parts, into motion, briskly raising the tabletop above its interior apron and making the contents quickly available. Large custom made wooden scissor hinges keep the two pieces aligned and a nylon strap limits the upward motion.

The tricky part was finding lifters of exactly the right pressure and length, which would deal with the flat force angle and yet not snap the tabletop upward dangerously fast. Anyhow, my hope now is that the requisite number of years has passed, not to mention that this was one of six seemingly identical tables which I built, though only one with the compartment. The many apron segments are splined, and the whole apron screwed to the top in order to allow for wood movement. Aprons glued to their tabletops are, of course, a most common novice woodworker error.
















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