Surely each of you cares about your health, especially about back health. Perhaps some even love and do exercises.
In this article, Alexey, the author of the YouTube channel Aleksey Leontev Workshop, tells you how he made a wall-mounted back massager with vertical adjustment. Thanks to this function, both adults and children can use it.
Materials
- Ashen massif, board
- PVA glue
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- U-shaped steel profile
- Screw, nuts M12
- Wall plugs for wall mounting
- Sandpaper.
Instruments, used by the author.
- A circular saw
- Jointer, planer
- Drilling machine
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- Lathe
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- Ruler, square, compass, pencil, chisels, brush.
Manufacturing process.
So, as a material for the massager, the master chose a fairly solid and durable wood species - ash.
Cuts the source material into bars, and aligns the base on the jointer.
Then cuts them into boards of suitable thickness, and drives them through the thicknesser.
Alexei draws the future shape of the frame by hand, without even using the template.
Stepping back from the back wall of the frame, marks the edges of future hanging grooves.
At their inner edges, drills holes for the diameter of the suspension bolt 12 mm.
It cuts the workpiece along a pre-marked contour on the band saw, and removes excess material from the grooves.
The next step marks the centers of future disks, and drills blind holes with a Forstner drill.
Now it clamps the wooden beam in the lathe, and turns the blanks for the axes on which the massage discs will be mounted.
It remains to cut the workpiece, and the axis is ready. Moreover, the thicker part of the resulting cylinders will clog into the holes in the frame, and on the thinner one the disk itself will be installed.
On the remaining boards, marks the approximate size of the disks, drills holes for the axes in their centers.
Trims excess material, and gets 20 workpieces.
To process the blanks, the master made such a clamping fungus. Clamps them in the machine, and grinds discs.
He polishes finished discs with sandpaper and soaks them with linseed oil.
At the next stage, he turns the washers.
And from a wooden round timber makes stubs.
Unfortunately, Alexey did not indicate a method of manufacturing wall mounts, but everything is extremely simple - I drilled a hole for an outboard screw in a steel U-shaped profile, and several holes for wall mounting.
This part connects to the frame very quickly, and saves space in the room. And changing the position of the frame is regulated by the height of the massager.
Now the master clogs all the axes with the wide side into the corresponding holes on the frame.
The washers will not rotate, but they will not allow the axles to pop out. Alex glues them literally on three drops of PVA glue.
Further, the entire frame and the necks of the axles are impregnated with linseed oil. The master does not apply it only to the ends of the axes. There will be another gluing.
The last stage of assembly remains, this is installing the disks on the axis, and gluing the plugs. It is important that the discs rotate freely.
After the glue dries, all the plugs are soaked in linseed oil.
Since the suspension system does not allow the frame to snuggle against the wall, the master decided to make the lining.
Now you need to glue the made blocks to the upper and lower parts of the frame from the back side. Instead of wooden plates, you can use thick skin of light color, or felt.
The master screwed the suspension to the door latch. A special vertical load on the massager will not be created.
This is how the massager looks in limbo, the gaps on the back side are very small.
Thanks to the author for a simple but useful sports device for home! But really, how beautiful the product turned out!
Good health, good luck, and interesting ideas to all!
Author video can be found here.