Vertical wood slat room divider

[Adam2]

We're going to build something like this

 

 

We'll have a 20mm thick base and header mounted on floor/ceiling but would like the slats to be rotatable. Thinking of something like a sprung push pin (not sure of right terms here) at the top but can't find anything that will depress say 15-20mm to make install/removal easier vs really small travel ones. For the base ideally soemthing that will allow rotation - not like it needs to be spinning around  so just some kind of locating system for it to be held in place - the slats will be 2.9m long and I think weigh less than 10kg each so does not need to be too industrial - ideally we'd have the slats looking like they touch the floor

 

Push pin

 

 

Appreciate any suggestions for parts to make this work well

 

 

[BotusBuild]

They would likely work, but what about doing something like this ...

 

Dowels top and bottom of each vertical slat, short at the bottom, with a shallow hole in the bottom horizontal rail. Put two metal washers over the dowel before locating in the hole.

 

 

At the top, the dowel and hole would be longer. Insert the top first, drop the bottom into place. This assumes you are fitting the top and bottom rail first then adding the slats.

 

Otherwise, no need to make the top dowel and hole longer.

 

 

[Super_Paulie]

Like a benker spring plunger? Could have the opposite size indent in the head or base to allow rotation.

 

https://www.rosscastors.co.uk/stainless-steel-threaded-ball-spring-plunger-m8.html

[BotusBuild]

  On 29/04/2024 at 08:47, BotusBuild said:

metal washers over the dowel

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Would nylon washers be better? Smoother to twist and no chance of corrosion. 

[Adam2]

So in the end the simple dowels with washers worked just fine (ignore the laundry 🙂 

 

 

Edited March 25 by Adam2

[Alan Ambrose]

You want to rotate them a bit like a venetian blind?

[BotusBuild]

  On 25/03/2025 at 18:56, Adam2 said:

So in the end the simple dowels with washers worked just fine (ignore the laundry 🙂 

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Now you've guinea pigged it, I know how I'm doing mine 😁