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Quick adjust table leg design help?

MatBirch

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I’m looking to design and fab a table leg set, or prop to hold the end of a platform. (Think supporting the end of a bedslide). It will need to hold maybe 80-100lbs. Trouble spot is that it will be camp trailer, so It will need to be able to quickly adjust to uneven ground. A simple inner/outer tubes with a welded nut with a thumb screw would work, but I doubt it would hold the weight without slipping, unless the the inner leg was tapered.
Maybe the guts of a pipe clamp??
How tough would a collar clamp like a painters extension pole be?

Any ideas?

Thanks!
 
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bdbecker

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Would something like this work? No idea of the quality of this product...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y2228QV/?tag=atomicindus08-20

EDIT:
Never mind... it looks like that only has one locked height, not variable...

The other option that comes to mind is to drill a series of holes spaced evenly apart in the interior tube and use a pin instead of thumb screw to hold it in place.
 
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ItsNemo

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Two pipes, one inside the other, series of holes, bolt goes through. Fine adjustment with an acme screw jack.
 
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lilscorpion

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Conceptually a design like a light duty tall trailer jack that can swing down and get close with a screw style micro-adjustment maybe
 
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