If any if you care about the "Snap Marc" saga of baby gates. Well, here's Part II of III.
Part I can be found here: http://www.bt3central.com/showthread.php?t=48359
Here is a video link of this gate:
http://woodtube.ning.com/video/baby-gate-ii-of-iii
My wife said to me the other day, "Spencer will be able to hurdle these gates before you get them up." That lit a fire and made me get out of my own way and get another gate installed. By the way, building these three beauties was the easy part. Installing them, well requires learning how to be an engineer.
Part one dealt with attaching it to a round post with not much strength. Keep in mind, these gates are heavy as heaven's opposite. Really heavy! Next time I'll use hollow metal instead of solid iron.
So Part II deals with mounting this gate at the bottom of the stairs to a wall that has no available stud anywhere near where I need it. So I fabricated a similar mount used in Part I, but that would have left me needing to use sheetrock anchors, I was minutes away from starting, and then I said, no. I can't take this risk. I scrapped the mount I built and went back to the drawing board.
This time, I made an extra wide mount that did cover the closest stud. In addition to lag screws tapping into the stud, I also used those killer toggle bolts you can get at HD with the long white plastic things you snap off. They're hidden under each hinge. Those just add a little extra support behind that side of the mounting bracket.
So here are some pics. I broke the mounting bracket into two thick pieces of oak. I need to split them due to the deep moulding on our walls. I didn't want to start removing moulding.
Oh, also since the mount was much wider than the gate, I had to run a dado down the length of the mount to accommodate for the pin boss of the hinge. Without this recess, the hinge wouldn't lay flat in the mortise I routed. Usually the pin boss will fall of the edge of a mount, but that was not the case here.
So to say the least, it worked very well. Gate III is next, I saved the easiest one for last. Gate III will be on wheels like Gate I. But Gate II is floating in the air and is incredible stable and strong. Stronger than I had even hoped for.
Enjoy these pics. I even have a movie I'll see if I can post.
Part I can be found here: http://www.bt3central.com/showthread.php?t=48359
Here is a video link of this gate:
http://woodtube.ning.com/video/baby-gate-ii-of-iii
My wife said to me the other day, "Spencer will be able to hurdle these gates before you get them up." That lit a fire and made me get out of my own way and get another gate installed. By the way, building these three beauties was the easy part. Installing them, well requires learning how to be an engineer.
Part one dealt with attaching it to a round post with not much strength. Keep in mind, these gates are heavy as heaven's opposite. Really heavy! Next time I'll use hollow metal instead of solid iron.
So Part II deals with mounting this gate at the bottom of the stairs to a wall that has no available stud anywhere near where I need it. So I fabricated a similar mount used in Part I, but that would have left me needing to use sheetrock anchors, I was minutes away from starting, and then I said, no. I can't take this risk. I scrapped the mount I built and went back to the drawing board.
This time, I made an extra wide mount that did cover the closest stud. In addition to lag screws tapping into the stud, I also used those killer toggle bolts you can get at HD with the long white plastic things you snap off. They're hidden under each hinge. Those just add a little extra support behind that side of the mounting bracket.
So here are some pics. I broke the mounting bracket into two thick pieces of oak. I need to split them due to the deep moulding on our walls. I didn't want to start removing moulding.
Oh, also since the mount was much wider than the gate, I had to run a dado down the length of the mount to accommodate for the pin boss of the hinge. Without this recess, the hinge wouldn't lay flat in the mortise I routed. Usually the pin boss will fall of the edge of a mount, but that was not the case here.
So to say the least, it worked very well. Gate III is next, I saved the easiest one for last. Gate III will be on wheels like Gate I. But Gate II is floating in the air and is incredible stable and strong. Stronger than I had even hoped for.
Enjoy these pics. I even have a movie I'll see if I can post.
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