Road Sign Table

Hello Instructables.

In this Instructable i am going to show you how to turn an old plastic road works sign into a quirky table.

Its quick and easy and in my opinion the finished product looks pretty cool.

Materials

On old plastic road sign and I cant stress this enough DON'T GO STEALING ONE!
For the purposes of this project i had spotted this one weeks ago and as you can see from the cobwebs it had been there for some time.

Tools

A heat gun

Something to measure with (I'm Using a meter stick)

Something to mark out those measurements

Straight forward enough, clean up your sign and then measure out the middle of each edge and mark it.

I could have cut off the straps that hold it to a traffic cone but i thought leaving them on just added to the character of it

Now this is the tricky-ish part.

Using the marks I hung the sign over the edge of a table using the edge of the table to act as a parallel between to the two points.

You may want to place something on the sign to weight it down

I then used the heat gun to slowly heat up along that line. moving the gun back and forwards at a steady speed on the top and along the bottom. dont go to slowly or you may burn the plastic. After a few minutes the edge starts to droop. I let it fall until it was almost at a right angle with the table (I wanted the "legs" to splay out a bit for more stability)

I repeated the same process for the 2nd leg but hung it as far onto the table as I could.

For the 3rd "Leg" I pretty much just held it by one of the other legs (making sure my had was well clear) and let it lean against the wall.

And its done.

The whole project took me around 30 mins, including cleaning up the sign. The finished product is sturdy enough to hold the weight of a few object but couldn't hold the weight of a human.

There would be several ways to reinforce its structure but for this project I just wanted to keep it simple.

I hope you enjoyed this instructable and as always thoughts/comments/criticisms and photos of your own creations are welcome in the comments section below
Bye for now :)