visiting mother in law, found out shes sleeping on a bed frame that was delivered to her with bad cuts on the beams, almost half of them fall off the frame if she uses them. hoping to fix it for her without having to rebuild my garage in her state. concerned about just buying new beams as the rest of the ones on her bed have an upward arch to them that i can't recreate here, any new wood i buy will sit straight & recreate the exact problem i'm trying to solve unless i bend them, and again i don't want to rebuild my garage here.
#need to lengthen a beam for a bed frame, concerned about the bending strength after
stuck crag
thinking of taking the beams from the old bed, cutting off two end pieces about as long as the slot the beam goes into is tall, turning them on their ends, measuring how thick they are put together, shortening the beam by about that amount & then screwing them with wood glue through into the end of the beam (paint diagram, brown scribbles are direction of grain)
but I'm concerned that because the beam is flat & bend-loaded from the top it'll immediately shear the screws out
7/8ths of an inch thick, 3 & 7/8ths wide
blissful yacht
I'd just extend the bed rail's thickness, in this case
junior dove
by far the easiest solution right there
stuck crag
lol the emotional rollercoaster i just went thru as I mis-interpreted what you meant and then realized u are 100% right is proof I've had too much on my plate
take old bed frame, make a new rail, bolt it to the old one, make notches, shorten the beams to the new width. yeah i can do that
stuck crag
4 out of 11
blissful yacht
are they the ones in the middle
stuck crag
theyre whichever ones i want them to be
blissful yacht
I don't really need more, if the bed rails are bowed you'll want to have an attached stretcher around the middle to keep them parallel
you can add blocking to each, sections, or the whole depending on what is easiest
stuck crag
oh, yeah. it doesnt have the middle rail tho the frame has a slot for one to go there. was already considering making one