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Thread: clothes drying rack plans?
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15th October 2011, 01:46 PM #1
clothes drying rack plans?
So I live in Belgrave where nothing dries outside except in summer, and I don't have a dryer, and don't really want one. And am kinda sick of living with those really ugly white wire things which seem to be the only thing you can get and the wrong shape for the place I want to put it. I want something in wood. I've looked through "free wood working" plans to no avail. Nothing called "clothes drying rack" anyway! I could probably make up something, but like to research what others before me have done, cos quite often someone else might have found a really neat sollution! Anyone got anything?
As an aside, I reckon wooden clothes dying racks would be a really good thing for an enterprising your chap/chappette to make. I have walked past quite swanky apartments in Fitzroy that I can't afford to set foot in, but they STILL have manky white wire clothes drying racks festooning their lounge room.anne-maria.
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15th October 2011, 02:16 PM #2
Mum had one kinda like this. But I don't want it in a circle. One that cme square out from the waal would be good. There seem to be half circle ones that screwed onto the wall.
anne-maria.
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15th October 2011, 02:20 PM #3anne-maria.
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15th October 2011, 04:43 PM #4
Aren't they called clothes horses? Whatever you do be careful of tanin comin out of the wood and spoiling your sundy bests
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15th October 2011, 08:01 PM #5
Is this the type of thing you are after?
I made it over 20 years ago and it fits under the bench in the bathroom. It is modified from a plan in "How to work with tool and wood" (21st printing 1972), pages 405-406. The plan is suitable to make it bigger if required.
This was a project where I used a mortice and tennon joint for the first time (and have not set out to use again). Done without power tools. While I was constructing it I purchased a router and used it to round some of the edges.
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15th October 2011, 08:42 PM #6
G'Day "Tea Lady",
This is a "clothes rack" my wife's dad [coach builder] built about 40 plus years ago.
It's had heaps of use and sustained some damage over the years.
The cross arms are about 21" long and the dowels are 24" long; it stands just over 6' high when in use.
I've taken a few photos for you to see how it works; it folds/collapses down for storage when not in use.
We use it in the laundry with a 15" fan to assist drying on damp days.
Cheers, crowie
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15th October 2011, 11:43 PM #7
Tea Lady,
Must it be floor mounted?
Have you considered a Shelia MaidDragonfly
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16th October 2011, 10:21 AM #8anne-maria.
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16th October 2011, 10:23 AM #9anne-maria.
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16th October 2011, 10:45 AM #10
Same principle and not wooden.
Here is ours.
We've had this for 40 years and it sits out on verandahs as well as in front of the fire in winter..... some old things are lovely
Warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them ........................D.H. Lawrence
https://thevillagewoodworker.blogspot.com/
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16th October 2011, 07:56 PM #11
Being an X Victorian I understand the necessity for a clothes horse. I have a timber one I made about 12 yrs ago. It has been dubbed The Megadryer. It is similar to SG's metal one but it has 12x 6ft rungs and stands about 5ft tall. It will hold two baskets of washing and gets plenty of use in winter.
Those were the droids I was looking for.
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26th October 2011, 11:34 PM #12
Re: clothes drying rack plans?
Hi Anne-Marie
I have one here that I'm minding for a friend of which is almost identical to the one that Crowie has put up, except it hooks from the top to hold it in place and has castors to allow you to move it when it's loaded with clothes.
You're welcome to borrow it or take measurements and I also have a heap of either 12mm or 1/2" dowel that you're welcome to.
Sorry for the crappy images, they were taken with my iPad in low light.Cheers
DJ
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26th October 2011, 11:41 PM #13anne-maria.
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