Easy Sleeping Platform

[phlyphishers]

Great idea.

Not sure what kind of rubber tips you got, but cane or crutch tips work well for that sort of stuff.

How hard was it to work with the bed frame? I saw a write-up by a guy that did a bus conversion, and he used a ton of scavenged bed frames for all kinds of stuff. He said he had to anneal the bed frames to be able to drill 'em.

This bed frame was easy to drill and seemed to be made from mild steel. I drilled it using a small cordless drill and a fairly new bit.

Thanks for the tip about the crutch tips.

 

[phlyphishers]

Dude!

1. That's brilliant.

2. I'm kicking myself in the head for not thinking of something like this for when I had my Tacoma.

3. Cute puppy! My sister has a dachshund, I think they're adorable.

4. Did I mention that this is brilliant? :elkgrin: Kudos to you.

Thank you.

 

[ywen]

The bed frame was an adjustable, one size fits all style.

We did not have to cut the frame for width. (Neither the twin setting nor the full setting gave us the correct width so we used the last hole from the twin and the first hole from the full. It doesn't quite seat completely but it was close enough to our desired width that we just went with it.)

We did not have to trim the length. The frame fits the bed perfectly.

I have more pic's if you want to see them.

Yeah cool man please post if you can! Hmm are these frames common at a typical mattress store?

 

[Corey]

Very nice, I like homebuilt stuff like this.

 

[Xrunner]

Great idea and nice execution.

What's the height from the top of the mattress to the roof of the topper?

 

[phlyphishers]

Great idea and nice execution.

What's the height from the top of the mattress to the roof of the topper?

Mattress top to inside roof height = 22"
Cozy but comfortable!

 

[phlyphishers]

Yeah cool man please post if you can! Hmm are these frames common at a typical mattress store?

I don't know. Walmart online showed a couple of frames that might have worked but in the interest of recycling we decided to look at the thrift stores first and found several frames there.
I did notice that some frames seemed to be thin and rather flimsy while others used thicker steel.
I found two different leg designs on the frames, tall and short. The frames with the tall legs used thicker steel to form the leg tubes and larger leg support gussets while the short leg frames used thinner steel to form the leg tubes and little if any gusseting.
Of the 8 frames I found, 3 would have worked for this project.

 

[phlyphishers]

Very nice, I like homebuilt stuff like this.

Yea thanks,
We wanted to create an easy design that could be replicated by anyone.