About 1/4 cup of milk.

That saved us a ton of money.There are heavier stainless steels available, but the cost for the stainless steel for this project would have been about $250 instead of $40.

Yay for saving money!.So we applied some adhesive to the stainless steel and some stabilizer pieces and put the first panel together..The GE Iron Grip Adhesive offers up to 75% less clamp time than many other adhesives so it allows you to work much more quickly on projects like this.

We left our project clamped for about 2 or 3 hours and then we had a nice, straight, flat panel!.…or so I thought.

Chris always likes to be extra sure so he added in a few shim in the back to hold the stainless steel extra straight..

He was actually able to apply adhesive behind each of those shims and have them hold right onto the surface of the stainless steel, so that really helped give him peace of mind.We do this by installing them around 2 spindles, one from each crib side so when tightened, the crib sides slide in opposite directions within the channel we created using the l-brackets.

Make sure you select to spindles that, when pulled together will push the crib sides out rather than in.. As you can see in the picture, our u-bolts are wrapped around 1 spindle from each crib side.When tightened, the tension will draw the 2 spindles together, pushing the sides outwards in the direction of the arrows safely securing the baby gate in place..

This is where the trial and error may come into play.Once you have the gate in the opening and you start to attach the ‘first attempt’ u-bolt, you will quickly see if that particular size will work and if not, what changes are needed for successful installation..