Help With An Adjustable Grow Table

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Hey OG. I built myself a pvc grow table a while back and need some help coming up with a way to improve it. I’m currently adding some more cross supports and I also want to see if I can make the table adjustable up and down. I work in a smaller tent and fitting reservoirs under the plants is a challenge in maximizing space. If I could move the table up and down that would help.

Anyone familiar with PVC fittings or maybe another material that easily assembles together like pvc that would allow for easy up and down movement? I’ve looked at short repair PVC fittings but they offer a limited range of motion, 6-12” range of motion would be great.

Thanks for any input.

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Have you considered making telescoping PVC legs, using perhaps 3/4" for the inside and 1" for the outside? By drilling equally spaced holes in each pair of legs, all you’d need to adjust them would be a few pins made of almost anything. Without really thinking about this, I’m not sure how bracing would work.

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Some pictures would be helpful.

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Look at this build and scale up their leg design to address your own needs.

If you don’t want to deal with a threaded knob you can do a simple drill-through hole design and just keep shit organized so its all level.

This can be kept together with R-clips:

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Here’s a few photos hopefully you can get an idea. It’s in use and the tent has a big front lip makes it hard to photograph with all the bigger pots now.

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That is genius! Thank you!

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No problem @Naptown916 . As I tend to lack in :moneybag: for many things I usually come up with creative ways to make something affordable. PVC pipe bought off Kijiji or Marketplace at 50% off is always a good go to when you can DIY versus throw money at the problem. :+1:

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Nice table man. :+1: :+1: :+1: I use a lot of PVC for various things like humidity domes, aero cloner manifolds, and things like that. This summer, I had a big Swazi plant, and had the idea to build a sliding frame for it, and I think the same concept could be used to make your table adjustable, but you’d have to rebuilt it I think.

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At each corner is a 1", 4 way elbow.

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The little nub you see coming out of the 4 way in the closeup, is a 3/4 pipe union. The PVC you use for the vertical rails has to be smaller than the 4 way, so it’ll slide. I had a bunch of 3/4" PVC that I was gonna use for the rails, but 1" 4 ways were a problem, and I didn’t want to buy 1" PVC for those.

I had a bunch of those 3/4" unions, and they looked close to an inch, so I tried them. I was kind of amazed, but they fit into the 1" holes almost perfectly. So, you glue those into the horizontal, “elbow” holes in the 4 way.

For the side legs, where you’re using a tee, you’d use a 1" 5 way:

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They’re configured the same way, with the 3/4" unions glued into the tee holes on the 5 way for the side rails, and crossbraces.

I found the easiest way to control the adjustment is to drill holes through your PVC “legs”, at what ever interval of adjustment you want, and use bolts to block the 4 way as it slides down the leg, or you can drill through the 4 way, and leg both, and pin it. Your legs have to as tall as your desired max adjustment height, I think you wanted a 12" max, so that’s no problem.

Hell, if you had a shitload of ratchet hangers, you could probably raise and lower it with those. Sorry for the long-winded oration. I have a hard time explaining shit like this, so I tend to go overboard. :upside_down_face:

Anyway, I hope this helps you get where you’re going. If you have any questions, let me know. :vulcan_salute:
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I wish I’d used more latex in my lifetime :rofl:

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:heart: :heart: :heart: :heart:

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I’ve seen those latex suits you wear to work…

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“Work” is exactly that. You wife is my best customer. :rofl:

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:rofl:

90’s memories :bat:

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Over 90 is my thing :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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Your love for them uncontrollably pissing the bed’s rubber sheets will be sung in the legends of the ages. :+1:

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Bro once she’s gone the cat is my only contender a hard enough kick puts pay to that. :smiling_imp:

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@Foreigner I hope you realise I’m playing and that I’d NEVER kick a cat 🫤

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Thank you! I found some locking pins at Lowe’s and I was trying to come up with some sort of sleeve design, I think you got me figured out more Appreciate the input.

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i like those

this could work?