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Clothes rack fix

Completion date: January 14, 2019






Version 3: The thing with this kind of clothes rack is that it is collapsible. However, there isn’t a mechanism to lock these pipes in place. The parallel pipes come off every single day. Now the situation is improved with the new wheels, as the wheels are now moving in sync. Nonetheless, pipes are still coming off if we have the heavy laundry basket on the rack. 

My first attempt to this is with a piece of nylon string. It is being clamped between the wood and the wheel. I think it should work as I couldn’t pull the string when it is clamped. However I doubt the string durability. Anyway, let’s see how long it would last. 

Completion date: January 12, 2019







Version 2: So... one of the wood pieces broke during wheeling (probably within a week). It was a really bad design and I really shouldn't have extended this bad design in the last fix. 

This time, I am using the spare wheels I have at home (why I had these wheel looking so new was another story).  These costed $20 each when I bought them for last project. It’s way too expensive for this fix; I would get smaller and cheaper ones if I were to buy them. 

The main challenge was drilling 16 x 6mm holes for the wheels (on manual hand drill). It took a very long time for the first 10 holes (hours) and finally I figured out a way and spent 2-3 minutes per hole (jiggle the drill bit in different angles while drilling, make sure debris are coming up). 

L-shape corners (to fix and connect the rack to wheels) costed:
HK$3/each for metal type x 4
HK$1/each for plastic type x 4

Bought some new drill bits from Japan Home ($28). All I wanted was 6mm but I got 3 sets of 5mm/6mm/8mm (wood/cement/metal).

Nut and blots I used mainly from my toolbox, so I would say no cost. 

The clothes rack is rolling very smoothly on these wheels, it’s a great feeling!



Completion date: August 10, 2018

The most recent home repair/fixing I have done was on my movable clothes rack. The rack was quite durable except for the wheeler.  The 3 slots for the wheel-insert were broken, causing the wheel to slide out when moving. 



At first I thought I would buy a longer long piece and install two U-shape (2-inch size) metal with the metal pole in between, to secure the wood piece from moving.  But then the biggest U-shape I was able to find was a 1.5-inch size. 

Finally, I found some scrap wood materials and cut them up 7cm in width. Drilled 3 holes: 1 for the wheel, 2 for screw nut. The screw I used were about 1.5 to 2inches long. I am leveraging the wheeler base plastic mold "X" for the long screw ends in securing the wood piece from moving. Then I had to buy (HK$29) long cables ties (300mm) to complete the fix. See how it looks. 






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