Harry Marsha wrote:
Does the frame just push the snap out with no connection to the back, and the sides hold the back of the bed from falling down ???????
Harry
Here's how to best visualize it.
Take an empty cereal box, cut off one of the big sides, leaving the other large side and the small sides and the top and bottom intact and lay it on its side so that its laying on one of the narrow sides, but not the top or bottom.
You've just made the clamshell that is the outer part of the snap-n-nap.
Now, take a piece of cardboard and cut it to about 3/4s the height of that cereal box laying on its side, and the full width minus say half an inch, of the inside of that cereal box laying on its side.
Take a piece of duct tape the length of the width of that piece you cut and attach it to that piece of cardboard so that you have about half the strip of tape hanging loose and half attached to the cardboard.
Now, lay that piece of cardboard flat down on your table, and slide it into the box you have laying on its side still, centering it side to side as you go, keep that lip of tape pulled back.
Once its slid all the way in apply the remaining half of the strip of tape to the cereal box, and then lay the cereal box down and fold that piece of cardboard you taped in into the cereal box at the tape, using it like a hinge.
You've just made the bed frame for the snap-n-nap, this is what the mattress will rest on when the snap-n-nap is pulled out.
Cut another piece of cardboard the same width as the piece you just taped in, but half as tall. Cut two pieces of duct tape so that they're as long as that piece of cardboard you tapes in is wide.
Lay that new piece of cardboard you cut in on top of the piece you taped in in, line it up at the top of that first piece of cardboard so that it's laying over the upper half.
Duct tape it in, then flip it over and duct tape it on the other side so that it can hinge back and forth.
You've just made the arms that are attached to the bottom of the bedframe in the snap and nap and help to pivot the mattress into place when deploying and fold it up when closing.
Now, you have your snap-n-nap :).
Now, take a third and final large piece of cardboard, this is a representation of the back wall of the camper.
Lay your "snap-n-nap" down roughly centered on your "camper wall", this is a close approximation, the snap-n-nap actually is offset down from the top of the camper a bit, but for demonstration purposes, centered will work fine.
Take another piece of duct tape, and apply half the strip to the edge of the upper small side of the cereal box so that half of it is hanging loose over the open side of the cereal box.
Lay your "snap-n-nap" back down centered on your "camper wall" and apply the other half of the duct tape to the cardboard sheet.
Now, fold open the "snap-n-nap" from the bottom and pull down your "bed frame" with the unattached side of the "pivot arm" pointed in towards the "camper wall".
Line the unattached side of the "bed frame" and "pivot arms" up so that when they touch the "camper wall" they're at at perfect 90 degree angle to the camper wall.
Mark where that is on the cardboard, and then trace a line on the "camper wall" the width of the "bed frame".
Measure the thickness of your cardboard wall and then cut that much off of the loose edge of the "pivot arm".
Fold your "snap n nap" out of the way temporarily, and then draw a rectangle based on traced line and have it go up from that line to the bottom edge of where the "clamshell" is attached to the "camper wall".
This should leave you with an opening wide enough for the "bed frame" to slip its unattached edge into.
Cut one more piece of duct tape, and attach half of it to the trimmed down edge of the pivot arm, do this so the duct tape will attach entirely to the outside surface of the "camper wall".
With your "pivot arms" pointed at the "camper wall", slide the "bed frame" in till the "pivot arms" come in contact with the "camper wall" and are flush with the bottom edge of the bed opening (your "bed frame"'s edge should be sitting flat on the lip of the opening, but not protruding into the opening past that").
You've just successfully built a snap-n-nap.
You should be able to swing the "clamshell" open and closed at the bottom and the bed should hinge up out of the way and deploy out each time you do so.
