IKEA Hack: Adding wheels to OLOV table legs
My studio has somewhat limited space and in order to have everything neatly organized and portable, I decided to attach wheels to various pieces of furniture. A simple custom made oak table with IKEA OLOV legs is a perfect example.
In order to attach wheels to the legs, I needed to design a custom end caps, that would hold a M10 nut.
Bill of materials:
- A wooden table top - I used a piece of oak that I had leftover from making windowstills
- Set of four IKEA OLOV legs
- Set of four furniture wheels with M10 screw - I used a set of two wheels with brakes and two without
- Set of four M10 nuts
- 3D printed end cap - they’re inserted into OLOV legs with M10 nuts hammered in
As I’m not very fluent in 3d modelling, after about an hour of trial and error I had a rough design of the end caps. I used Tinkercad. It’s a perfect app for small designs and for someone not very experienced in designing 3D objects, it’s a great learning tool as well.
My design is freely available so you can adapt it to your needs:
https://www.tinkercad.com/things/g6FvznL4i1H-ikea-olov-m10/
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4859578
I then exported my STL file to Cura slicer, which created a GCODE for my Ender 3 Pro printer.
