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Home outdoor movie night started with an auction at the recently closed Hopkins, MN theatre. I went myself and remember blowing out my back during removal. Sie waren schwer! But out of 8 or 9 seats I purchased, I got 4 good ones and 2 OK ones. The rest were used as parts. Red leather upholstery with metal supports and very strong plastic seat frames and backs. Papi likes.
Everything just barely fit in the truck for the ride home. I stopped in Hopkins for lunch with *Stickers* and his main [ahem...] only squeeze. Good times.
For the row of three I made a 2x6 wood frame and installed six 3-inch casters with nice rubber lining supporting 300 lbs each (pictured with only the first 4 installed). The frame is fine -- but I went just a little bit wide (deep) on the plan. I wrapped the front section with tread tape to avoid wearing out the frame with foot rubbing. The completed 3-seat unit wheels out from the garage where I store it to the porch easy-peasy.
The single seat setup. You can see I moved from a wood frame to 2"x3" steel, and a slightly smaller diameter wheel to get the seat just a bit lower to the ground. You can see the same tread tape on this chair as I have in the 3-seat configuration. This seat triples as my downstairs garage TV lounger and my flight sim seat when I hook it up to the rolling instrument panel.
So this is what it looks like on movie night. There is a table behind the seats for the required movie snacks. I put a projector on a stand behind that and away we go. The single seat and two-seat setups will replace the garden chairs in the future. The screen is a 100" (2.5 meter) diagonal measure. I made the stand out of electrical conduit and fittings from a company called Maker Pipe. Neat little fittings so I can easily disassemble for storage.
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