Wood bed ?s
 

Anybody ever flip the cross sills upside down (like positioned for a steel bed floor) and put the wood-to-sill-to-frame bolts just through the sill and frame, eliminating the holes in the wood? I guess just trying to go for a hidden bolt type look.

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I welded the bolts to the cross sills then cut the heads off the bolts and rewelded the tops. This eliminates the bolts going through the wood. I got the idea from a thread I read about doing this type of modification. If you search you might find it. Here is my bed as I was assembling it.

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Google "67-72 wood bed hidden bolt strips" then click images you can see a number of possibility's, there are extrusion bed strips where the bolts slip into a channel.

http://image.trucktrend.com/f/899708...bed_strips.jpg
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Like this? i used shorter bolts and ran them through the cross sill and frames brackets.

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Exactly like that. Did you flip the cross sills over?

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no, just used shorter bolts

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the sills have plate that slides over them to align with the bolts and sit on the frame, i just got them where i needed them and welded them to the sills.

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Mar-k sells hidden fastener strips. I used them on my bed

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http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/k...5367B653F0.jpg

Cause I can't justify paying 3-400 for bed strips and another 3-400 for wood. I welded the holes shut on the original strip then welded a bolt on the back side. I'm going to use two sheets of maple plywood for the wood.

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http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/k...5C916D773B.png

Got the idea from juankybuilt.

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Hmmmm I'm seeing some pretty good stuff here, but I think I'm going to try to flip the cross sills over and see how it works. I'm not too worried about the bed strips having bolts through them. I'll see how everything works out when I put my bed together in a couple of weeks