Clothes airers

[Pheonix]

Anybody any ideas/ plans for those old fashioned? wooden clothes airers, the type that folded up and had dowelling racks.Usually concertina type,sometimes called clothes horses. :)

[silentC]

I made one years ago. Quite straight forward, it's like two V's, one upside down. I'll see if I can do a diagram.

[silentC]

The legs look like this. There's a dowel that runs from each junction which doubles as the clothes rail and the pin for the joint. The dowel is fixed to one leg (I used smaller dowels sideways through the leg but you could glue or screw or whatever) and is free on the other so that it pivots.

Edit: I updated it to show where all the dowel rails are. Mine was about 5ft high and about 6ft long.

[echnidna]

They commonly used 16mm dowel

[Andy Mac]

Here's a fold away version using 3/8" dowel. I have other pages for the plan and construction, but this should be enough to get it underway.

Cheers,

[Pheonix]

Thanks for the replies guys,Andy Mac yours looks like a wall mounted one,found one after three or four hours searching on the net.
link is here:
http://www.handymanwire.com/articles/rack.html (http://www.handymanwire.com./articles/rack.html)