Happy Friday y'all.
I wanted to share my first project with Maker Pipe - a simple set of guard rails on a storage loft area in my studio. It's a tiny footprint of useful storage space above the bathroom, and I wanted railings to keep myself from falling off. I've also added pegboard panels to help hide the mess it's containing, and keep small items from falling out.
The whole setup is 3/4 EMT with some flanges, Ts and 90s. The panels were cut down from a single sheet of white pegboard, and then held in place with 3d printed clips and screws. It's lovely in concept, and decent in execution, but don't analyze it too closely - there's room for improvement still.
Regardless, from 8' down it looks great and it does the trick.
I still need to install a permanent ladder (not made from pipe) and some hand holds at the top entry, but that'll be another day.
Cheers!
I wanted to share my first project with Maker Pipe - a simple set of guard rails on a storage loft area in my studio. It's a tiny footprint of useful storage space above the bathroom, and I wanted railings to keep myself from falling off. I've also added pegboard panels to help hide the mess it's containing, and keep small items from falling out.
The whole setup is 3/4 EMT with some flanges, Ts and 90s. The panels were cut down from a single sheet of white pegboard, and then held in place with 3d printed clips and screws. It's lovely in concept, and decent in execution, but don't analyze it too closely - there's room for improvement still.
Regardless, from 8' down it looks great and it does the trick.
I still need to install a permanent ladder (not made from pipe) and some hand holds at the top entry, but that'll be another day.
Cheers!
The simplest way to attach panels to a pipe frame would be zip ties - just loosely zip them all around and then slowly tighten them to create tension in all directions and keeping your panel centered. There are some zip ties which are removable and while not as strong, they would be adjustable. Maybe pick a matching color to hide them, OR go with bright or contrasting colors to show it off.
The second would be "R-type cable clips" for wire hold down. It seems like they come in a variety of sizes, so you could find whatever fits your pipe/panel best and bolt through with a nut/bolt. This is the style I was imagining: https://www.amazon.com/Swpeet-Plastic-Mounting-Fastener-Management/dp/B08P5NVXZJ/ref=sr_1_3?crid=6FZPS3AEBLPD but there are many other options available. For the stacked or side-by-side panels, I would just use two - one in each direction. This is perhaps not as tidy and perfect looking as single two-way straps, but just create a new pattern that looks right and go with it.
Finally - maybe the most elegant AND the most fussy - stitch it on with paracord. Since it's already perforated, you could effectively do a whip-stitch through the panel and around the pole to tie it in place. Since tensioning the panel would be tricky -- keeping it centered AND pulling the paracord tight as you stitched -- this would perhaps work best after temporarily securing your panels with zip ties. That gives you a fixed panel placement to work with, and then you could slowly remove the zips as you stitched your way around.
I think it would look awesome.
As I mentioned above, they're not perfect - they're fussy and fickle, and hard to align perfectly. I need to do some tidying up of my files before I can share, but I'll tag you here again once they're uploaded.