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Slimming my legs


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blog-0901310001425159905.jpgThat is actually all that seems to be happening with all the going to the gym I am doing at the moment - have lost weight but only from my now skinny legs and nothing from the beer belly! Hopefully, that is not what your interested in as this all about the trestle legs for the layout and at last I have finished something! You may remember that I floated this idea a couple of months ago and for any newcomers will repeat the pic of the plan;

 

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In short plan was to remove the 'horns at 'A', cut the horizontals at 'B' and remove 5 inches and the remove the same at 'C'. Well, the horizontal bars were dropped off at my tame steel fabricator just before we went to Wales and yesterday picked up the results;

 

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Very neatly cut and welded - did I mention that there are five trestles? Pretty much all of today was spent dismantling the rest of the bits and then attacking one end of the red bit with drill and hacksaw. No real problems encountered but very time consuming.

 

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Legs are in fact perfectly straight just a bit of perspective from the camera. Unfortunately I didn't weigh them before all this but they certainly seem an awful lot lighter and certainly more compact now. This means that they will give a much neater presentation as the curtain will hang straight down with no awkward bits sticking out to walk into. Possibly more importantly though is that they will take up much less space in the car and will be able to make much better use of the available space. One other slight mod was that I removed the bump which prevents the lifting section from being removed from the frames. Not sure if this will make them easier to pack but it will allow a bit more flexibility with where they go if necessary.

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