While setting up the small table I conjured from scrap, I discovered one of the folding legs no longer had a latch to keep it from folding. Whether it never had one or the latch got lost along the way, there’s no time like the present:
The bolt I put there in place of the joint rivet precludes a smaller latch along the lines of the simple steel loop on the other leg, so I figured I may as well go large and, with that much surface area, plywood will work just as well as steel for my simple needs.
It’s a topless, bottomless box from the infinite supply at boxes.py, here seen with its halves being glued at right angles on an aluminum bracket:
When those set, I glued & clamped them together in situ, then wrapped the whole mess with what’s basically high-strength friction tape to encourage it to not come too far apart under the inevitable stress when the leg tries to fold with a pile of stuff on the table.
We’ll see how long this survives; if past experience is any guide, it’ll be a while.
The WordPress AI image generator has a shaky grasp of both human anatomy and the blog topic:
Woodwork design by Escher. What is that interesting tool? So many arms, all with nightmare fuel anatomy!
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 
Well thought through that illustration.
The hand is very appropriate for a woodworking/ table saw illustration. Strangely enough I knew a guy like that.
Known to all as Old Lefty One-Thumb, I presume.