Scalpers Bridge

 Sol badgered me to report on what’s happening to the scalping bridge. I have reviewed many styles, had advice from a wide range of ‘advisors’ and tried different approaches. ChatGPT came up with a couple of 

I have tried cabinet hardware, heavy duty drawer slides and piano hinges. All failed. The one major oversight of my ‘advisers’ is that, well it’s like this, my carpentry skills are less than optimal, indeed I can’t even cut firewood straight, so to create an engineering marvel that would make a visitor say ‘wow, that’s neat’ is, well just plain impossible. 

So we have at the moment a swing up bridge that drops into place and is held up by a short piece of chain. The top of the structure collides with the curtain rod and pelmet, but it works, kinda. I am thinking I might be able to slice it in half so the top half folds down onto the bottom half when raised so it folds back to 90 degrees rather than the 75 it currently comes back to.