On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 17:45:10 GMT, lid
(Big Al Dexter) wrote:

Interesting.... I can't quite picture that, but I think that it may not work
with a live load of books (and the swinging lets me get behind the units very
easily). Good thought though - I'd love to see a sketch to understand your
idea better...

Joe Gorman wrote:
How about a slide out bookcase? Slides mounted at the top, that would let
you pivot the unit up and support it on a folding or telescoping support
that would swing down from the lower back?
Joe
who can see it in his mind's eye, but not the hardware to make it happen

wrote:
Big Al Dexter wrote:


Decisions, decisions... I'll take some pics and post them to a.b.p.w of the
existing area tonight, and thenas I move forward will keep the wreck updated
as to how it works. Fingers crossed, please!


I looked at your picture of the opening. So, hinges or pivots it is with
no outboard casters for support. In that case, reinforce the corners
and cross brace the case. Someone suggested a turnbuckle style, though
I think I would use something else like a piece of wood or metal.

I will be interested to see how you get swinging clearance.
The shelves will have some depth, so the opening has to
be a bit bigger than the case. I suppose a face frame could
hide the gap. You did say you wanted to have two shelf units
that swing out from the center, right? In the picture it
appears to me you might have a clearance problem opening
the right hand shelf unit.

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.


I didnt see the original post but if you want a hidden room with book
case its not that difficult to do. I just did this very thing in my
home last year. I used a 3'0" 6'8" solid core door for the back of the
book case. Then i built the book case on the outside of the door. I
built up the wall that was to hinge the monster using 6 studs laged
together in the wall. THen i built the jamb complete with stop bead
and hung the door using 5 4 1/2 "by 4 1/2 " comercial hinges and
used 6" lags in each of the hinges on the jamb side and 3 1/2 screws
on the door side. I built the kick and attached it dirrectly to the
floor so that it looked like it was all one peice. Its has been there
over a year and NO SETTLING has occured yet. I used shoe molding to
trim out the sides and attached this to the book case. This hides the
latch for the lock that i installed and i glued up a half dozen old
books to hide the lock. the whole thing probly weighs in at around 500
pounds or more loaded with books. you cant tell its there so it makes
a great place to hide stuff. skeez
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