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Final Assembly with Casters and Shelves

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Building a Bar Cart with Dowels & Epoxy

What happens here

In this penultimate assembly stage, the previously prepared components come together to form the final rolling table. First, rolling casters are securely attached to the bottom corners of the stained wooden frame using a cordless drill and appropriate screws, ensuring easy mobility. Next, the epoxy-finished shelves are carefully positioned within the frame's structure. These shelves are then fastened in place by driving screws from the underside of the shelves into the horizontal dowel supports, creating a secure and stable platform for items. The top panel is also attached to the upper frame using screws. This completes the primary construction of the bar cart, making it both robust and fully functional.

Goal: The stained wooden frame, finished epoxy shelves, and rolling casters are integrated to complete the functional and mobile table/bar cart.

Tools and materials

  • Cordless drill/driver
  • Finished epoxy shelves
  • Rolling casters
  • Stained wooden frame
  • Wood screws

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that cool discovery hope you guys find this useful I bought these inch and 5/8 little casters where throw them on that with the screws that are included in here and then we'll get to swiveling on it and then we'll start thinking of how to secure the actual epoxy countertops while I curious the epoxy is dry we're ready to take it out we're gonna start unscrewing the backs of this and then hopefully nothing breaks off once it comes out old you know it'd be helpful using like a stiff putty knife and breaking the melamine off and I wouldn't be surprised if some melamine got glue to this okay hey Alex how's it going over there not good not good at all the melamine is glued to my epoxy so we're going back to the Stone Age and I'm gonna as an artist I'm gonna try to find the beauty that's the thing you can get all this particle board add this sucks back in alive this sucks folks but what do we do if we embrace the suck all right we embrace the suck okay so this is the best I could do it's so ugly I have two options option one that it's soaked and water released but before I do that I'm gonna take the old hand planer and run it through I have a feeling this will be fine we're gonna try it what's the worst that can happen we ruin this that's what that's what's gonna happen [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay so I got everything sanded down to 300 degrees it's a blazing 91 degrees that's high to have a tiny little box fan going here have it had he chucked yet I think if this video doesn't come out for another week send somebody to check up on me because I probably die I'm gonna start wet sanding this thing down we're gonna use 400 grit and then jump to 600 grit it's foam little foam pad kind of stuff we're gonna use a little spray bottle spray this down and then start squirting away not squared-away scrubbing away and then told you the heat but there is an opportunity if we hold this just right though it's not a hook and loop it's not a hope but it has a little adhesive in this there so we'll just we'll just do that so let's back to Sandy yeah [Music] our POC is all done up we're not shooting clearcoat on as soon as we put clear coat on it's gonna actually become far more translucent looks so nice and you don't wanna do it yet because I start to make my cut gonna be a little difficult to install these tops I think I'm gonna do it is maybe kind of flip it over on top and do my best way of sketching it out just to get this thing sitting right in the middle of once it's…

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