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14th May 2013, 01:50 PM #1Senior Member
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How the heck do I manage to do this?
A friend of mine has ask me to "adjust" some stools. She suffers from 'ducks disease' and needs about 50 mm cut of the legs to that she get get onto them without a step ladder.
The problem is that the stool has four tapered legs. That means that when the feet on on the floor, for them to be level, they will not be 90 degrees and square to the length of the leg.
Cutting them square would be easy, but I have no idea how to cut them so that each leg sits flat on the ground.
Any suggestions please?Cheers
Ric
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14th May 2013, 01:57 PM #3
You can always cut the ends off square & slightly over-length, place the stool on a known flat surface and use a pencil (with some suitably tall "packer") to scribe around the bottoms of the legs to give you the "final cut line" with a good hand-saw.
Edit: I see Herm just pipped me. Same thing, different approach.
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14th May 2013, 02:31 PM #4SENIOR MEMBER
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Do as Skew suggests but instead of sawing off leave the stool on your flat surface and rub the legs down with sandpaper,coarse then finer.
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14th May 2013, 02:56 PM #5
Sit them on level surface as said before but make a block up 48mm high clamp to each leg and cut off using the block as a saw guide.
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14th May 2013, 05:11 PM #6Senior Member
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Thanks guys. Some very useful suggestions. I will report back later with the results.
Cheers
Ric
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15th May 2013, 03:30 PM #7GOLD MEMBER
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Economy of scale comes into question here. Would it not be better to stretch the lady in question? Only two legs requiring attention.
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15th May 2013, 03:42 PM #8Senior Member
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15th May 2013, 07:08 PM #10
The Schwarz made a video of this levelling a stool he had made.
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15th May 2013, 07:10 PM #11
Instead of using 1 x 2" block to mark around the legs, you could use 2 x 2" blocks and nail them to her shoes.
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21st May 2013, 12:24 AM #15Retired
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It's called an Llizarov Frame ilizarov frame - Google Search
Been used for traumas and leg extensions for ages
Not as quick as trimming 4 stools though.
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