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<blockquote data-quote="Truename" data-source="post: 9815317" data-attributes="member: 78255">The mitered corners are out.The first quote I got from Teco Technologies (the 80/20 distributor) had the table frame (the four top edges) at $929.16. The reason they gave me is that mitered corners require a &quot;miter connector,&quot; and a 1.5&quot;x3&quot; extrusion requires custom machining for that connector. They're happy to do it, but it comes at a steep cost.I was hoping I could go without the miter connector and just rely on my leg + corner braces to connect the edges of the table together, but I talked to my contact to Teco today and he said that definitely won't work.So the mitered corners are out. [USER=27385]@aco175[/USER], no more worries about somebody stabbing themself on the edge of the table.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />Instead, the edges are just going to overlap, with the long edges inside the short edges. Here's some ASCII art of the table from above:Before:<code class="bbCodeInline">\=================/</code><code class="bbCodeInline">|&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; |</code><code class="bbCodeInline">|&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; |</code><code class="bbCodeInline">|&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; |</code><code class="bbCodeInline">/=================\</code>After:<code class="bbCodeInline">|=================|</code><code class="bbCodeInline">|&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; |</code><code class="bbCodeInline">|&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; |</code><code class="bbCodeInline">|&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; |</code><code class="bbCodeInline">|=================|</code>The legs will still attach to the bottom of the frame, which gives me flexibility to swap their direction or size if they need to be stronger. The new cost is $547.56, which means my fancy mitered corners would have cost me $381.60 extra. Yow. I liked the idea of the mitered corners, but not that much.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Truename, post: 9815317, member: 78255"] The mitered corners are out. The first quote I got from Teco Technologies (the 80/20 distributor) had the table frame (the four top edges) at $929.16. The reason they gave me is that mitered corners require a "miter connector," and a 1.5"x3" extrusion requires custom machining for that connector. They're happy to do it, but it comes at a steep cost. I was hoping I could go without the miter connector and just rely on my leg + corner braces to connect the edges of the table together, but I talked to my contact to Teco today and he said that definitely won't work. So the mitered corners are out. [USER=27385]@aco175[/USER], no more worries about somebody stabbing themself on the edge of the table. :cool: Instead, the edges are just going to overlap, with the long edges inside the short edges. Here's some ASCII art of the table from above: Before: [ICODE]\=================/[/ICODE] [ICODE]| |[/ICODE] [ICODE]| |[/ICODE] [ICODE]| |[/ICODE] [ICODE]/=================\[/ICODE] After: [ICODE]|=================|[/ICODE] [ICODE]| |[/ICODE] [ICODE]| |[/ICODE] [ICODE]| |[/ICODE] [ICODE]|=================|[/ICODE] The legs will still attach to the bottom of the frame, which gives me flexibility to swap their direction or size if they need to be stronger. The new cost is $547.56, which means my fancy mitered corners would have cost me $381.60 extra. Yow. I liked the idea of the mitered corners, but not [I]that [/I]much. [/QUOTE]

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