Making a bed floor lift up
 

So I messed around with my scissor hinge today, here are the measurements of the ones I made. When I decided to make my bed wood lift I didn’t find much information out there on how to make a hinge to lift and push away. This is only a start on this subject and hopefully if anyone has any advice they can add to this and help the next person. I will add information on how I did my lift as I go.

#1 overall size
#2 opened
#3 size of lg lever
#4 size of small lever
#5 bracket mount measurement

I used 1x3/16 flat bar

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You really do nice work. How/where does the hydraulic ram tie into the lift?

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Thanks Robert, I’d like to tell you I have a plan but I don’t, sometimes you just do it and hope for the best. I have looked at gas struts, linear actuators and hydraulic but haven’t decided yet. Here’s some pictures from today’s work, I’m trying to use metal I have sitting around.

#1 where I will mount the hinge.
#2 the width of the frame
#3 I sunk the nuts at the front so they would clear the front bed support.

Tomorrow’s plan is to build the hinge brackets and mount them to the wood.

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I'm subbed for this.

Get work so far:metal:

That's is how most of my projects roll'
Trial and error.

I have be tossing idea's around about a dump raise bed.

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https://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/...light=coulters

Theres another guy that he got the idea from I think it Coulters but gotta find the build...

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Found it and it looks sweet... This is what i'm going to do...

https://www.67-72chevytrucks.com/vbo...ge#post6314830

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Finally got around to working on my bed today. Tac welded the hinges in and gave them a whirl, so far so good. Here’s some pics

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Looks great!!!!!!!!! Wanna make me a set lol

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Jan, nice work...Jim

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These made me pull my hair out:m6:.We need someone with a plasma table to cut them out.




Thanks Jim

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Very nice work. Those are great.

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Thank you Robert, how’s your bodywork coming?

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Slow! I heard somewhere on here "I hate sanding!" Well....

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Looks Nice:metal:

Did they turn out like you wanted them to?









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I do have a plasma and I do have a table.... too bad theyre not a cnc plasma with table lol.

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jocww
Can you( make or fabricate) a Tracer plate to create these?

If NorCalGal can supply a pattern?










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tracer plate being a template? Yea If she can trace it out I can just cut a template out of plywood or something of that nature and then just free hand the plasma cut to metal. It will be a rougher cut than if done by water jet or cnc plasma but a few min with a grind wheel would make it ok i would assume.

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To be honest I had a couple spots I had to grind a little away for clearance. If I was to do it again and I had a plasma I would probably use the curved arm design like the Eddie Motorsport scissor lift design.I think that may solve the clearance issues I had. I can certainly come up with some poster board or thin wood patterns that would maybe work better.







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Think of it as meditation. Lol

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Not sure of the material thickness..but waterjet would give a much nicer edge than plasma..

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Just need to find somebody with a water jet:metal::metal::metal::metal:

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Haha. Yep

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I just saw a YouTube video of someone who used this company.....

https://sendcutsend.com/?gclid=CjwKC...xoC2UMQAvD_BwE

Pretty simple design you have there

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I pm’ed you