Lift-Up Ikea Lack Table

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<p>You want a fun <strong>flip-up coffee table</strong>? Need to hide your best books or keep your puzzle / board game undisturbed? Now you can have a morphing table, by mixing Ikea with 3d-printing.&nbsp;</p><p>The goal of this design was to <strong>re-use all of the Ikea parts</strong>, and also to use as<strong> </strong>few extra parts as possible: You only need some glue or 6 small screws and optionally four felt gliders to complete the flip-up table.&nbsp;</p><p>To reduce the number of additional parts, the <strong>3d printed hinges</strong> are <strong>self-securing</strong> on the Ikea legs, so make sure your printer is well calibrated.</p><p>Also all parts are <strong>print-in-place</strong>, and <strong>no support</strong> is needed! The hinges are built-in to the print.</p><h4><strong>See it in action:</strong></h4><figure class="media"><oembed url="https://youtu.be/LRp-pvZwKWc"></oembed></figure><h4>Needed parts:</h4><p>Get two Ikea Lack tables for 9€ each:</p><figure class="image image-style-align-center image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://media.printables.com/media/prints/202621/rich_content/1d2d04e4-abe5-430d-b7e0-91bfa4eb5414/p1311609-1280x721.jpg#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%22864f2abe-72c2-47c0-9877-92984b94f327%22%2C%22w%22%3A1280%2C%22h%22%3A721%7D"></figure><p>Then print all parts. Print “Ikea_Lack_Hinge_V4_UpperLowerTableMiddle_Print4” four times, all other parts are needed only once.</p><figure class="image image-style-align-center image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://media.printables.com/media/prints/202621/rich_content/ada0988d-c925-4437-b23f-1fbf2a924222/p1311619-1280x721.jpg#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%22d4063b1a-3c98-4d9c-bc57-8514358993fe%22%2C%22w%22%3A1280%2C%22h%22%3A721%7D"></figure><figure class="image image-style-align-center image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://media.printables.com/media/prints/202621/rich_content/d888ca39-032f-4431-b637-e8f917a01103/p1311668-1280x721.jpg#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%222266601f-f0c3-4a68-bea7-a9244c17e705%22%2C%22w%22%3A1280%2C%22h%22%3A721%7D"></figure><p>Also get 4 felt gliders to avoid a hard “bang” when you close the table.</p><figure class="image image-style-align-center image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://media.printables.com/media/prints/202621/rich_content/68592232-7f6f-45fa-9559-093a1c20aa43/p1311695-1280x721.jpg#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%2242b433b8-9785-429a-bb2c-b4d54ebe6c95%22%2C%22w%22%3A1280%2C%22h%22%3A721%7D"></figure><p>You also need 6 small screws (which fit into 3mm screw holes, just to attach the hinges to the tabletops.</p><h4>Instructions</h4><p>Remove the small added line from “Ikea_Lack_Hinge_V4_UpperLowerTableMiddle_Print4”, it is to ensure that the parts print well:</p><figure class="image image-style-align-center image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://media.printables.com/media/prints/202621/rich_content/16b02597-0627-4170-b036-390bf5387d77/p1311628-1280x721.jpg#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%2264880745-5e07-4b1c-8f2e-fda69edc4bf4%22%2C%22w%22%3A1280%2C%22h%22%3A721%7D"></figure><figure class="image image-style-align-center image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://media.printables.com/media/prints/202621/rich_content/db5984fb-36aa-4d66-b40d-7767ad59c955/p1311630-1280x721.jpg#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%2233ca5143-de95-4784-a777-a4520a251dc9%22%2C%22w%22%3A1280%2C%22h%22%3A721%7D"></figure><p>Put the parts on four legs (no screws needed, just push the legs into the printed parts.):</p><figure class="image image-style-align-center image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://media.printables.com/media/prints/202621/rich_content/e2be258c-2968-4ff2-8c06-68fc06ab5fd5/p1311617-1280x721.jpg#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%22209f9dd2-1c5e-433f-b5da-9dcf8b5f4f5a%22%2C%22w%22%3A1280%2C%22h%22%3A721%7D"></figure><figure class="image image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://media.printables.com/media/prints/202621/rich_content/bd0622a1-91f1-490e-a36d-e49d922d21d3/p1311634-1280x759.jpg#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%2298d47753-dc51-4eaa-baa7-8e6403e64d51%22%2C%22w%22%3A1280%2C%22h%22%3A759%7D"></figure><p>Put the printed corner hinges and printed corners without hinges onto the “bottom table” and screw on the other four legs:</p><figure class="image image-style-align-center image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://media.printables.com/media/prints/202621/rich_content/eeb579b4-4960-4a56-8d83-fccbe000880a/p1311674-1280x823.jpg#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%22156de2cb-aa2c-4ce1-93c9-10570a1aaba4%22%2C%22w%22%3A1280%2C%22h%22%3A823%7D"></figure><p>Your table should look like this now:</p><figure class="image image-style-align-center image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://media.printables.com/media/prints/202621/rich_content/144f2227-0504-4c09-9f3b-4cb98ce0efa5/p1311675-1280x1077.jpg#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%2222caaaa0-e620-45af-a38f-e114d36da600%22%2C%22w%22%3A1280%2C%22h%22%3A1077%7D"></figure><p>Then, attach the two “Ikea_Lack_Hinge_V4_UpperTableCorner” to the top table corners: Fix the corner hinges with small screws (screw holes are 3mm, so use little screws) or with glue.</p><p>Then, put <strong>felt gliders </strong>on the bottom of the top table (on 2 corners, there are still holes open, on the other 2 corners there are the corners and screws from the step above).</p><p>Then, put the top table onto the bottom part. Align the 4 still unattached “Ikea_Lack_Hinge_V4_UpperLowerTableMiddle_Print4” so they “grip” onto both the upper and lower table respectively.</p><figure class="image image-style-align-center image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://media.printables.com/media/prints/202621/rich_content/c2bca5d9-737e-4326-8e5b-8c81f107004e/p1311677-1280x1081-kopie.jpg#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%22da70e6c3-97e1-4847-a5f7-bde5cbc7f863%22%2C%22w%22%3A1280%2C%22h%22%3A1081%7D"></figure><p>Now, when the top table is centered, fix the hinges onto the lower tabletop with 2 small screws.</p><p>After that, open up the table so the upper tabletop is at the top, and the hinges are at 90 degree up. Then fix the hinges to the upper tabletop with 2 screws.</p><figure class="image image-style-align-center image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://media.printables.com/media/prints/202621/rich_content/054f411f-36ac-4ec5-b1c3-33529c77624d/p1311689-1280x721-kopie.jpg#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%22f75b8758-c70a-434a-a659-56774b76eb4b%22%2C%22w%22%3A1280%2C%22h%22%3A721%7D"></figure><p>Now add the 2 stoppers (seen in red in the below picture) so the table rests securely at a 10 degree angle forward when up.&nbsp;</p><figure class="image image-style-align-center image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://media.printables.com/media/prints/202621/rich_content/eca4513a-bd6a-4e79-a1c1-2da105cd8ce4/p1311699-1280x721.jpg#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%220f4f0d76-8fb4-40be-9603-d83260873bf0%22%2C%22w%22%3A1280%2C%22h%22%3A721%7D"></figure><figure class="image image-style-align-center image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://media.printables.com/media/prints/202621/rich_content/da693f90-4b8c-4853-8e80-7205269b718a/p1311700-1280x721.jpg#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%22ca1ffc7b-7663-4c85-b6ca-9a52fc41c15c%22%2C%22w%22%3A1280%2C%22h%22%3A721%7D"></figure><p>Have fun!</p><h4>Want to modify the design?</h4><p>You can modify the hinges using <a href="http://openscad.org/">OpenSCAD </a>and the supplied scad file.&nbsp;</p><p>For instance, instead of the flip-up table here</p><figure class="image image-style-align-center image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://media.printables.com/media/prints/202621/rich_content/b2fb98e2-412d-4546-9515-6c0eac4dc839/2022-05-15_22h15_22.png#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%2261134297-518a-4050-b42c-856e7feb8d0e%22%2C%22w%22%3A556%2C%22h%22%3A341%7D"></figure><figure class="image image-style-align-center image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://media.printables.com/media/prints/202621/rich_content/393904aa-f0cc-4fe1-b8ac-9880d38c6f34/2022-05-15_22h15_30.png#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%228bb16da9-76c0-4502-a8af-6bbe915efb60%22%2C%22w%22%3A495%2C%22h%22%3A301%7D"></figure><p>you could create a flip-away version:</p><figure class="image image-style-align-center image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://media.printables.com/media/prints/202621/rich_content/7c48d13c-48ac-4c36-b302-9d81e96b5b14/2022-05-15_23h06_18.png#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%22f2ab1b4d-9997-49b7-9a50-1439692bd97f%22%2C%22w%22%3A555%2C%22h%22%3A266%7D"></figure><figure class="image image-style-align-center image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://media.printables.com/media/prints/202621/rich_content/459bae2c-3f04-4fb9-93e5-0fa923921fd0/2022-05-15_23h06_25.png#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%220c4c0b33-7b23-4c2d-b327-46a26e0c02de%22%2C%22w%22%3A507%2C%22h%22%3A348%7D"></figure><p>To make sure your mechanical construction works, I can recommend Daves <a href="https://blog.rectorsquid.com/download-linkage/">Linkage</a>. You can construct and try mechanical contraptions using his open source software. &nbsp;</p>