Timeline for Bend wooden bedframe back into shape?
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| May 20, 2021 at 17:49 | comment | added | Kaz | Wire? Why not just fasten down a couple of slats to the frame. | |
| May 20, 2021 at 8:19 | comment | added | TooTea | If it warped once like this, it will inevitably warp out again later. Just bending it back thus doesn't help much. You absolutely need to tie the sides together. | |
| May 19, 2021 at 10:44 | comment | added | Jim Stewart | Agree with @Mark Morgan Lloyd about the holes in the slat support. Surely there to connect the ends of the slats to the side rails. Do the existing slats have holes in their ends? The slats must be restrained somehow or gaps would develop. | |
| May 19, 2021 at 7:41 | comment | added | Mark Morgan Lloyd | Those holes are very suspicious: my first thought is that the person who originally assembled the bed threw some bits away because they didn't appear to be needed. | |
| May 18, 2021 at 22:30 | comment | added | Ecnerwal | Yeah, test the weight - it may take quite a bit. Your note about the slats implies that they only go to the centre rail, not all the way across - could you attach a few from opposite sides to each other to have them be what holds the sides in? | |
| May 18, 2021 at 19:37 | vote | accept | LondonPhantom | ||
| May 18, 2021 at 19:37 | comment | added | LondonPhantom | Permanently pulling the slides together is another possibility. I'm less keen on that because it has the minor disadvantage of making the bedframe more difficult to dismantle when/if I need to move it. FWIW the holes in the slat rail are engaged by pegs on the slats, but that doesn't pull the bed frame in because there are no pegs on the metal centre rail. | |
| May 18, 2021 at 19:33 | comment | added | LondonPhantom | Thanks. I didn't realise you'd be able to bend would be able to bend would back like that. If so, then your suggestion of weighting it to bend the other way would be perfect. Is there any way to estimate the likely order of magnitude of weight required from the dimensions of the wood, or is it just a case of testing a weight and seeing? | |
| May 18, 2021 at 17:56 | history | answered | Ecnerwal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |