by David
more progress on threaded rod stand
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Orignal post here:
http://our.windowfarms.org/2013/01/02/stand-from-threaded-rod-and-mdf/
I made a ring out of 1/16″ [1.5 mm] thick steel tonight for the top of the stand:
The three unused holes will be for centering/suspending the stack of 1.5-liter bottles. The top bottle is being temporarily centered using masking tape till I design and make the final solution (I need to make the cutouts in the top bottle too). Thinking maybe raise the ring up and bring three rods down and inward to a central externally-threaded bushing that would pass through a hole in the top bottle and have a little collar that threads on to hold the bottle:
Plenty of time for that – plants are still sprouting. Here’s some lettuce that started coming up the other day (about 3/4″ [19 mm] tall):
This is definitely going to be one of the sturdiest window farms out there.
Almost looks like it needs neon lights and a cool white mist around it, like something out of a sci-fi movie! Keep up the awesome build.
I hope so.
We’ve got a “plant” table in front of one window in the living room that my wife has a Christmas cactus and an aloe on. I wanted to make something that could just sit up on there and be freestanding so I didn’t have to worry about anchoring it to the wall or ceiling. I’m a bit of a material hoarder, which comes in handy for projects like this.
With a couple grow lights and a humidifier, that sci-fi look could be possible. I need to make some plastic-lined lab-stand style clamps for easy mounting of accessories to the threaded rods (or maybe use two-piece shaft collars that have accessory holes in them like a tinker-toy hub). The rods being threaded is nice, but using regular hex nuts (like I’ve done for the base and ring) would be a pain to take stuff off every time you want to add or remove an accessory somewhere along the rod…