How To Make A Beer Pong Table
Shelly hither with a Slap-up project for you in advance of 4th of July family celebrations – cheque out my awesome-sauce DIY Folding Ping Pong Table!! Perfect for family fun and the best function is, I've reversed the fold from typical ping pong tables and then that this can be stored on a ten-inch wide footprint! Wahoo!
I'm not going to lie, at that place are errors in my photos, only the plans were amended after-the-fact so that y'all don't repeat my mistakes. Sort of typical of my posts over on 100Things2Do.ca – I like to make the mistakes and salvage you the trouble.
DIY Folding Ping Pong Table
Supplies:
- (1) 4 x viii Ft. Sail of 3/4-inch Plywood
- (1) 14-inch square of 3/4-inch Plywood Flake
- (vi) 1 x vi x 6 Ft. Boards
- (1) 2 x vi ten 8 Ft. Lath
- ane-inch Pocket Screws
- ii i/2-inch Pocket Screws
- (ii) 24-inch Heavy Duty Continuous Hinges
- Forest Glue
- fourteen-inch Metallic Drawer Glides (optional)
- 29-inch Folding Table Legs (*tip: search Craig'due south List!)
- Painter'due south Tape
- iii/4-inch Brad Nails
- 1 one/four-inch Brad Nails
- 1-inch Wood Screws
- 1 1/4-inch Forest Screws
- (2) 24 inch x 36 inch Copper Sheeting (optional)
Cut List:
Cut your plywood, or take your home improvement shop cut it in half so y'all have (two) 48″ 10 48″ squares
- (4) 1×6 @ 48 inches (nominal measurements three/iv″ past v one/2″)
- (1) 1×half dozen @ 49 1/ii inches
- (ane) one×6 @ 16 i/two inches
- (one) 1×vi @ 32 7/viii inches
- (1) 1×vi @ 15 one/2 inches (ripped to iv 3/4 inches wide)
- (ii) two×half-dozen @ 48 inches (ripped to iv 1/2 inches broad)
Drawer:
- (2) 1″ x iii three/4″ @ 14 inches
- (2) 1″ x 3 iii/4″ @ xv 1/2 inches
- (1) 3/four″ ply cut to 14″ by xiv″
To begin edifice a DIY folding ping pong table yous'll demand to drill 3/iv-inch pocket holes around iii sides of the 48″x48″ plywood. The manufacturer'south instructions on my pocket hole jig said to drill at two inches in from either side and and then infinite a pocket hole every half dozen-viii inches apart.
Using wood glue and 1-inch pocket screws, attach the side pieces (48-inch boards) to the sides. Exercise your best to keep the side boards flush with the top (seen here every bit the bottom) of the ping pong table.
Attach the 49 1/2-inch board to the last side with the pocket holes, once more with wood glue and 1-inch pocket screws.
Drill pocket holes in ane side of the 2×6 boards (now 2 inches x 4 1/two inches), every 6 inches. Use forest glue and attach to the bottom face of the ping pong tabular array between the side boards. Pre-drill and spiral in (ii) 2-inch wood screws from the outsides into the 2 inch ten 4 1/two inch boards for extra strength.
I built half of the ping pong table at a time so I could be certain of the table leg placement.
Before running out and spending a fortune on new table legs, surf your local Craig's Listing and pick up an former folding tabular array. I picked upwards this guy for $25 and simply removed the legs for this ping pong table project. Genius, correct?!
Attach the legs to the bottom of the ping pong table so that the feet are about 2 inches from the 2 inch ten four 1/two inch board and centered down the middle. The below photograph is of side #2 of the ping pong table, but you get the idea about centering.
Starting time building the second half of the folding ping pong table in the aforementioned way every bit the first, but instead of attaching a 49 1/2-inch face board on the tertiary pocket-hole side, adhere the 32 7/8-inch lath and get out the last section empty (for now).
Drill pocket holes in one long and one short side of the 15 i/2-inch board and adhere at the edge of the 32 7/8-inch board with wood mucilage and i-inch pocket screws. The brusk side volition be screwed straight into the 32 7/8-inch board. This lath will be 30 three/iv inches from one side and 16 one/two inches in from the other.
*Note: Typically, drawer boxes should be 1 inch narrower than the drawer opening. This will let for 1/2-inch clearance on either side for the drawer glides. Depending on what type of drawer glides y'all go, this is usually the case, but yous'll want to double-cheque according to the manufacturer's directions. Information technology took a LOT of swearing sweating for me to earn that tip for you.
Time to build the drawer box!
I used some fleck iii/iv-inch MDF that I had lying in the garage, only 1/2-inch MDF or plywood would work but as well. Cut the base to 14 inch x fourteen inch foursquare.
Attach the iii 3/4-inch x fourteen-inch side boards to the base with wood mucilage and 1 ane/iv-inch brad nails. Stop by attaching the 15 ane/2-inch pieces beyond the ends with forest glue and 1 1/4-inch brad nails (a boom gun is easiest). Clamp tightly earlier nailing for the best grip. The plans indicate the drawer depth at 3 inches, but that is because the 3/4-inch ply/MDF is prepare inside the drawer and non under the sides.
Now comes the "fun" part.
I am NOT a fan of drawer glides and I think it's fair to say they are non a fan of mine. I spent two hours and numerous attempts to become my glides in accurately and running smoothly – so you can imagine how blue the air was in my garage. My mistake? The boards I received from my home comeback store were bowed in the center. Relieve yourself the stroke and get the straightest boards y'all possibly can. If your boards are directly and your framing is square, so the drawer glides should work smoothly right out of the gate.
Don't attach the 16 ane/2-inch face board until everything is running smoothly. Once it is, set the confront lath up so that it is about 1/8-inch gap out from the rest of the face lath and flush with the outside edge of your folding ping pong table. Use wood glue and 1-inch wood screws drilled from inside of the drawer.
Which reminds me… nosotros oasis't made this bad boy a FOLDING ping pong table yet accept we?
Fourth dimension to attach the two 24-inch continuous hinges! Pre-drill every pigsty and attach to the 2-inch eye boards with ane one/four-inch wood screws.
The bottom should await like this:
Fold one side up and bank check to make sure everything lines up overnice and tight.
I attached my clasps temporarily but to make sure everything was dainty and tight and secure.
Time to sand and prime – this is where all of the fiddling nicks and scratches and whatever little boo boos are erased. My sander is similar my magic wand – hiding the mess and getting Cinderella to the ball.
Prime the top and sides and add woods filler (if necessary) once dry. Add a 2d coat of primer around the outside edges and down the eye of your table (we'll utilize the primer as the white purlieus lines on the tabular array)
Information technology's fourth dimension to record off your folding ping pong table. This table isn't quite regulation size. A "existent" ping pong tabular array should be 60 inches broad by 108 inches long by 29.92 inches loftier. Ours is 49 one/ii inches broad past ≈97 1/two inches long (our height should exist close to accurate) because that's why three/four-inch plywood comes in. You gotta work with what you've got right?
Lines on a ping pong table should be 28/32 inches for the outside border and the eye line should be 3/32 inches wide. My eyes are too quondam to find those markings on my tape measure, and then I fabricated life easier and used the iii/4-inch side and face up boards as my purlieus lines. I taped off where the boards lined upward with the plywood. Hey, if this isn't regulation size, then who needs regulation boundaries?
For the heart line, I plant the middle and laid down painter's tape. From at that place, I marked ane/eight inches on either side of the center line and cut away the excess with a utility pocketknife.
SOOOO much easier!
Paint the surface and sides with a nighttime colour – I chose to use outdoor appropriate pigment then I could put my tabular array on the patio for the summer.
Two coats and yous are ready to pare off your tape! (The best function!)
Having folded the ping pong table to cheque for a tight fit, and and then re-opening it once more for painting, you lot will have noticed that the side of the ping pong tabular array could get pretty scuffed up. You lot don't have to practise the side by side step, merely I idea adding some copper flashing (not existent copper, but aluminum that looks like copper) might prolong the life of my wood and protect my table from besides much damage.
A chip of heavy duty gum, 3/4-inch brad nails and clamps will bind the copper to the sides pretty easily.
You tin find this sheeting at many home comeback stores. It's thin enough to cut with tin snips, thick enough to offering some protection and coppery plenty to glam up your table.
Re-attach the clasps and y'all are ready to play on your DIY folding ping pong table!
I folded information technology up (check out that tiny footprint!) and put it on a skateboard to wheel information technology to my backyard.
You'll see a fault I made hither: the extra piece of copper needed to clad the sides was about 12 i/2 inches long – I wasn't thinking and I cutting the pieces from the copper sheeting, only didn't make sure the grain of the metallic was running in the same direction equally the original pieces. That's where y'all come across the calorie-free reflecting differently. Duh-me.
The hidden drawer easily holds your net, extra balls, and at to the lowest degree a one-half-a-dozen ping pong paddles!
Sunset game of ping pong, anyone?
The best feature, I think, is the folding option. When you're done playing, merely constrict your paddles etc into the drawer, plummet the legs, click the clasps and constrict your folding ping pong table away in the garage. Ane compact box of fun.
That's it folks! You've just made a DIY folding ping pong table and y'all've made yourself the hit of your family unit/friends/family unit reunion – at about half the cost of purchasing a bulky table that takes upwardly twice the space.
For more lawn fun ideas check out:
- One-man ping pong
- Personal burn down pit
- 100 Things 2 Exercise this summer
- The Tough-Mudder of Hopscotch
- Title Beer Pong
Happy fourth of July weekend friends and Happy Canada Day back home!
Pivot it for later!
Source: https://jenwoodhouse.com/folding-ping-pong-table/
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