/diy/ - Do It Yourself

You obviously need a few glidey-slideys on the edges of the endersides. Now you need the same things on the bottom it seems. Once you can get those on there real firm is to lift that mattress high into the sky.

That's pretty cool. I haven't seen hardware specific to that setup, but I'm guessing something like the following would still do the trick :
http://www.leevalley.com/US/hardware/page.aspx?p=41276&cat=3,40842,41271&ap=1
http://www.leevalley.com/US/hardware/page.aspx?p=41277&cat=3,40842,41271&ap=1

that'd be a pretty good hide n seek spot. i could imagine a couple of kids suffocating in there because nobody is ever able to find them and/or hear their screams.

>>303253
thats it i'm making it

>>303249
Thank ya!
I just couldn't wrap my mind around the hardware.
Don't really want a Murphy bed, but that's all that Google seemed to bring up.

>take regular storage bedframe
>remove inner floor and legs
>add boards for shelves

http://www.ikeahackers.net/2010/11/malm-bed-with-loads-of-underbed-storage.html

http://www.ikeahackers.net/2011/05/malm-marries-alsarp.html

>>303257
Think of it as a "Murphy" that you only put vertical when getting stuff from underneath.

What I don't understand is why anybody would need 8 rolls of paper towel.

>>303697
I thought it was TP? Probably cheaper to buy in bulk from Costco or something

1 x Malm = 200

2 x Alsarp = 500

Goddamn that's quite a bit more than I would be wanting to spend.

>>303697
Masterbating nightly can use alot of paper towels.

>>303735
Same here, can anyone thing of a way of doing this without breaking the bank?

get a metal futon bed frame weld the frame part go to a junk yard and get hood hinges from an old ford truck ( 88 ) build the wooden bits around it attatch the hinges to the sides of the box and the the bottom top side of the bed... tada oh and if ya can take the hood latch part and cable put a hinge on a book attatch the cable to the book and then when ya pull the book it pops up

>>303240

seems perfect for storing dead hookers

>>303782

>>303778
Basically you're saying use large springs as a counter-weight.

88 Ford Ranger hood weighs roughly 20 pounds. A double mattress will 30-60 pounds (depending on a thickness, style, etc). Add 20 pounds again for the under-mattress frame for 50-80 pounds total. So you'll need the springs from 2 to 4 Ford Rangers (do they have 2 springs or just one for the hood?)

Other possibility: put the bed high off the floor you can move the piviot point closer to the middle, add counter-weights at the head of the bed and you will need fewer springs.

My mother's mission-style bed is 15 inches from floor to bottom of mattress (as opposed to 8 for my daughter's bed). Add 7 inches for the nominal boxspring (which you wouldn't use) you could move the pivot point 21 inches from the head, 51 inches from the foot. That's 29% of the matress acting as counter-balance for another 29%, so 42% of the weight to deal with. 42% of 50 lbs is 21, of 80 lbs, 33.6 aka the springs from 1 or 1 and a half Ford Rangers.

My RV bed does exactly as OP's pic describes and just uses gas shocks, one on each side. They are mounted such that they apply force horizontally when the bed is closed down, but when you raise the bed, they are angled around 45 degrees so they push the bed up.

All you need are shocks and the mounting hardware. Cheap.
Just make sure the shocks you get will hold the bed up! Do some force calculations.

>>304212
>exactly
Well, turns out it's not exactly like your pic. But it's close enough.
And that angle looks more like 30 degrees.
Your force calculation will be something like gas_shock_force * sin(30 degrees) to see how much vertical force will be applied. I think.

>>303840
Math is all wrong.

If the pivot is 22 inches from the floor, Pythagoras tells us it will be 31 inches from the head of the bed. A bed is 72 inches long, so you have only the weight of 10 inches (14%) to lift. 14% of 50 is 7 lbs, 14% of 80, 11 lbs.

In other words, if you attach 7-11 lbs to the head of the bed, the pivot will be at the center of gravity.

>>304697
Note that this limits the bed to 45 degrees open.

this seems really awesome for storing shit, but... what about dust?

>>304713
Shouldn't be a problem. The box is more or less sealed when the matress is down. No dust can get in.

>>304713
I know what you're saying. I had a futon that got dust under it.

Wouldn't be surprised if it ended up getting dust under it still...nature has a weird way of fucking with people that way. Since it's totally covered just cover everything with a sheet or old blanket prior to closing and it's not like it will mess up it's looks at all.