That is a great rack but SO much over-engineering! It looks like something I'd build-- to NEVER break or come apart. I have one with a hundred year old design, the thing itself has to be at least a century old, and it holds two loads of heavy clothes with no problem. It uses 1/2" dowels and 3/4" x 3/4" end pieces. It stands taller than 6' when open, but still only occupies a small floor space.
Just built one but with the dowels going all the way through and dowel pins to hold in the ends. Looks great. FYI the bottom portion of the top middle side rail butts against the most outer post. I think that dowel should be a different length. I'm going to cut out the portion that prevents it from folding completely.
+mbdl I like you metheds! If I remember I ended up sanding that part that but up against. I think it would be best to have that dowel be longer. However mine is folded out all the time anyway. Thanks for the tips!
Mitch, so cool. You are a perfectionist. Now, to my issue. I have an antique accordion drying rack. Works great very tall, not so wide. Problem: when extended it is low sided. Can’t figure out why. Any thoughts.
@@MitchellDeitrich How has it held up? Has it gotten molded even with the polyurethane spray? I'm thinking of purchasing some wooden ones again since my original ones did not have any polyurethane sprayed on it from the manufacturer and now they're molding. Once the mold gets in you cannot savage them even if they are still in good working condition. My thing is I have one very large similar to the one you made and I can't find it anywhere and I know if I do it will be way over $100 not including shipping.
Love it! Just a heads up... we're going to talk about this awesome video on tonight's live recording of episode 001 of MadeByNation. The edited show should appear on my Awesome Wood Things RU-vid channel on Wednesday (maybe Tuesday)
