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Round Patio Table Feet

For a round patio table, although you can’t tell from the picture:

Round patio table feet - installed
Round patio table feet – installed

Also despite appearances, that’s 3D printed from clear-ish TPU, with its black appearance due to internal reflections from the leg’s dark interior.

The original hard-white-plastic feet had eroded enough to let the aluminum legs scrape the deck paint:

Round patio table feet - old vs new
Round patio table feet – old vs new

The only way to extract each old foot was to hack out a segment with a razor knife, after which it slid out easily.

The ring around the top of the sections provides enough griptivity inside the leg to hold the foot in place:

Round Patio Table Foot - solid model
Round Patio Table Foot – solid model

As with the TPU chains on the bike rack tray holder, I expect the compressed / bent segments will gradually relax inside the legs, but the feet ought not fall out in normal use.

The OpenSCAD source code isn’t quite a one-liner, but it’s close:

// Patio Table Foot - round legs
// Ed Nisley - KE4ZNU
// 2026-05-29

include <BOSL2/std.scad>

/* [Hidden] */

ID = 0;
OD = 1;
LENGTH = 2;

HoleWindage = 0.2;
Protrusion = 0.01;
NumSides = 4*3*2*4;
Gap = 5.0;

$fn=NumSides;

PadOA = [8.0,1*INCH,3.0];

SleeveOA = [13.0,21.7 - HoleWindage,12.0];

Kerf = 2.5;


//-----
// Build it

difference() {
  union() {
    tube(PadOA[LENGTH],od=PadOA[OD],id=PadOA[ID],anchor=BOTTOM) position(TOP)
      tube(SleeveOA[LENGTH],od=SleeveOA[OD],id=SleeveOA[ID],anchor=BOTTOM);
    up(PadOA[LENGTH] + SleeveOA[LENGTH] - 1.0)
      torus(d_maj=SleeveOA[OD],r_min=(PadOA[OD] - SleeveOA[OD])/2,anchor=TOP);
  }
  up(PadOA[LENGTH])
    for (a = [0,60,120])
      zrot(a)
        cuboid([PadOA[OD],Kerf,2*SleeveOA[LENGTH]],anchor=BOTTOM);
}

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