A Novel Sliding Desk
Dec 10, 2006 | by Marcus This week I've been making and fitting the pull out writing desk. I wanted a way to enable there to be a flat surface right to the back of the cabinet (rather than a step where the desk meets the shelf), and came up with a quite neat mechanism to accomplish this. This gives two positions for the desk - lowered, which is ideal for use with a computer keyboard, and raised, which is a better height for writing and enables you to easily spread things out. As with most good things, the mechanism is very simple - just a ramp acting on a bar at the back of the desk, with some guides to prevent the whole thing skewing, but it has a nice, satisfying action to it....
This is the desk in the closed position....
...which then pulls out with a brass handle.
You can then tilt it up...
...pull it forward...
...and push it back where it locks into place.
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