Close to the end for this project, after installing this door/table/cutting doard all that remains is mortising in the spring latch to hold it shut, getting the wheels properly mounted, and finishing.

The wheels have been an enduring hangup as once I got them home I found the bushings I bought for them were a little thicker than spec and won't actually fit inside the axle mounts. Rather than drive all the way across town to send them back and ask for the correct stuff I've, sensibly, decided to instead drive across town and turn them down on a makerspace's metal lathe, that of course wasn't functional and needed tuning first. This has resulted in some still incorrectly sized, but now really raggedy-looking, bushings.

Close to the end for this project, after installing this door/table/cutting doard all that remains is mortising in the spring latch to hold it shut, getting the wheels properly mounted, and finishing.

The wheels have been an enduring hangup as once I got them home I found the bushings I bought for them were a little thicker than spec and won't actually fit inside the axle mounts. Rather than drive all the way across town to send them back and ask for the correct stuff I've, sensibly, decided to instead drive across town and turn them down on a makerspace's metal lathe, that of course wasn't functional and needed tuning first. This has resulted in some still incorrectly sized, but now really raggedy-looking, bushings.

after setting up the legs and installing the previous folding assembly my wife came along and pointed out that this thing is now way too awkward to neatly fit in a car while assembled now. So I'm going in and retrofitting some collapsing joints to the legs. Had I properly planned this out in advance, I'd have made the legs out of some kind of tubing I could just add a simple telescoping segment to (like you see on crutches, or cheap adjustable chairs) and be done in minutes, but of course I didn't, so I've got to find a more roundabout way of making a stick longer or shorter on demand, in a field, with no tools.

Had I expected this going in I woulda also made the legs out of something else, aluminum has a lot of great properties but it sucks shit to fabricate with unless you've got a bunch of expensive dedicated equipment (tig welders aren't terrible as these things go, they only cost about as much as a good used car). I don't, so I'm stuck brazing a bunch of steel tee nuts and washers around the stuff to install something as simple as a post or threaded insert. The end result looks horrible, but it's a very rigid reasonably strong joint that just slips on and gets secured by thumbscrews. I'd prefer no easily-lost extra parts, but this is better than a fistful of wingnuts.

Early on I figured to make this actually sorta practical as a camping accessory (rather than something you carry up to 20 feet from your car, storing a camp kitchen you would otherwise just keep in said car 20 feet away) it would have to do at least some of the work of carrying itself. By which I of course mean it transforms into a wheelbarrow.

CW poor draftsmanship