Cardboard Telescope Tripod Part 3 (Braces)  

2017 VBS Galactic Starveyors 

Soon I will mount a telescope to the top of the tripod to complete it, but first I must put the head from part 1 and the legs from part 2 together so they'll stand. 

 

I glued the legs to the inside of the head.

At this point it stood on its own, but I knew it would not hold up to a lot of weight or being moved around.









I measured from the floor up 12 inches and made a mark, then I measured across the legs from mark to mark and discovered the distance was about 12 1/2 inches from leg to leg.

I added 2 inches to that measure, one inch for each end, and drew three strips that where four inches wide with a fold line in the center. I cut them out, scored them and folded.














Now I held these strips inside the legs and made a mark. Then I held them outside the legs and made a mark.  This gave me a pretty good idea of the angle I needed to glue the braces to the legs.

The marks were both on one side of the strip (brace) so I had to transfer the outside mark to the fold side.  I drew an angled line connecting the two marks. This line would become a fold line.

Now I cut along the fold, the small distance from the line I just drew to the end of the braces.










I scored and folded the angled line all the way back and cut off any cardboard that was over the fold.  In the photo you can see a dotted line where I cut.  I repeated this with all three supports and at both ends.









I held the brace back up to the legs and found the approximate angle I would need to fold the remaining section of the end so that it hugged the leg.


This made a triangle that would hug the inside of the leg and a flap that would fold over the outside of the leg.









I used hot glue on the outside of the triangle and on the inside of the flap.

I held it secure while the glue cooled.



I did this for all three braces.









Last I cut an a small piece to cover the where the two flaps where glued to the leg, and glued it in place to cover them both.

Now, I have a tripod. In the next and final step I'll mount a cardboard telescope, and be ready for paint. 

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