Magnetic Elevated Gaming Surface Legs

I wanted an elevated gaming surface, but didn't want to pay the crazy prices folks are charging for them, so I made my own.

I bought 2'x3' magnetic whiteboard from Target, removed the frame, added one of my battlemats to the surface, reattached the frame, and put legs on the bottom. This Thing™ is for the leg holders and end-caps.

I also designed full legs, both in 130mm (roughly 5") and 100mm (roughly 4") heights.

I wanted removable legs, so I ended up using a 1/4" x 48" weldable steel rod from Menards, cutting it into sections with an angle grinder, clamping them all together, grinding them to the same length, and rounding the edges with my bench grinder. I then printed the leg holders and end-caps out of TPU and assembled. The leg holders are simply applied to the back of the whiteboard with CA glue. I thought about going with 6 legs (two in the middle, in line with the other corner legs) but this arrangement of 5 was plenty, and I was able to create a 4" and a 5" set of legs out of the same 48" steel stock.

One of the best parts about this is that the surface is still white-board, so I use it to keep track of notes for things like concentration or mirror images, and it's also magnetic, so you can put magnets on the bottom of things like tree bases to keep them in place.

If you'd like to modify the full legs to be any other height, here is the Tinkercad where I designed this: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/eRjlMKV7oFU