What I Did This Weekend - In Pictures!

Thehooperman

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Then yesterday I went to Chepstow races with a friend from Cardiff.
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Gramaisc

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The lads decided, rightly, that they wouldn't attempt to deliver my plywood order during the Apocalypse yesterday. They know I like to do as much as I can outside, to create less mess, and, apart from the rain, trying to handle an 8'x4' sheet in the gale would have been exciting.

This morning, it seemed that we had moved 1,000 miles southwards in the night and it was a rather pleasant Spring day, so they dropped it off.

I trimmed it up into the basic shapes.

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The sawdust could be just blown away with @Carole's old blow/vac.

Three of the shelves then went up full-size, with just a couple of suspension holes and a cable access notch. One shelf was cut short, to allow the drawer cabinets to be hung later. Then three more long shelves were trimmed to fit the remaining spaces and the off-cut from the short shelf used to make another short shelf, for the same reason.

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Assembling it all is a complicated sequence, but it went reasonably well - the weather made it all a lot easier than it would have been on a more inclement day.

There are still some details to finish - plating the joins between shelves, trimming the suspension rods and moving at least one of the sockets before the cabinets are hung, but I now have another fifty feet of shelving.

That may do for now.
 

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
The lads decided, rightly, that they wouldn't attempt to deliver my plywood order during the Apocalypse yesterday. They know I like to do as much as I can outside, to create less mess, and, apart from the rain, trying to handle an 8'x4' sheet in the gale would have been exciting.

This morning, it seemed that we had moved 1,000 miles southwards in the night and it was a rather pleasant Spring day, so they dropped it off.

I trimmed it up into the basic shapes.

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The sawdust could be just blown away with @Carole's old blow/vac.

Three of the shelves then went up full-size, with just a couple of suspension holes and a cable access notch. One shelf was cut short, to allow the drawer cabinets to be hung later. Then three more long shelves were trimmed to fit the remaining spaces and the off-cut from the short shelf used to make another short shelf, for the same reason.

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Assembling it all is a complicated sequence, but it went reasonably well - the weather made it all a lot easier than it would have been on a more inclement day.

There are still some details to finish - plating the joins between shelves, trimming the suspension rods and moving at least one of the sockets before the cabinets are hung, but I now have another fifty feet of shelving.

That may do for now.
I think i've said it before, but your shed is bigger than my entire house!
 

littleme

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I have moved the socket and adjusted my drawers.

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Fiddly work, but it will be worth it in the future.

The bench is already noticeably clearer without making any special effort about it yet.
It's a bit morbid, but I hope you have someone to leave all this stuff to when your time comes? Who won't just scrap it all? The shed always looks full of fascinating things....even though I wouldn't know what half of them do.
 

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
It's a bit morbid, but I hope you have someone to leave all this stuff to when your time comes? Who won't just scrap it all? The shed always looks full of fascinating things....even though I wouldn't know what half of them do.
I was thinking that about Bob Clays stuff. Not how to work them, just whos got it. An enthusiast or the scrap man?
 

Lucy

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Yep, it's on Yesterday, called Secrets of The London Underground. Got vouchers for one of their tours for my birthday and needed to use them this weekend before they ran out.
 

Gramaisc

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For a while, I've been using a stool made from a failed garden chair - the steel frame was still OK and a replacement platform had been fashioned. Only recently did I notice that there is actually two of them - and a third chair that is still in the process of failing.

I resolved to improve them by using material better suited to outside use and adding Workmate holes, which may be useful at some point.

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The frames are welded, which meant the tops had to be carefully shaped to be able to be inserted into place - and the front and rear crossbars are at different heights, so a spacer rail had to be planed to size to get the tops to be level.

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All done and a bit of finish on. The Workmate was in use, so it got treated to another coat on the new jaws.

I presume that there was a fourth chair at some point - I must keep my eyes open...
Seeing that the remaining plastic seat is now nearing the end of its days, I have prefabricated a top to fit the frame afterwards.

This one will be essentially the same as the first two, but with the added feature of fixing holes to mount a cast iron 'tractor seat'.

In order to fit this, I went to the local hardware shop and bought a nut, bolt and washer - singly - off the shelf.

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Like going into County Woodware forty years ago.

This stool will live in the currently unseated greenhouse. It's a fair lump of iron and holds a large quantity of heat.

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It will be easy enough to remove the seat, if I need to use the flat surface.
 

Noah

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a cast iron 'tractor seat'.
A long time ago Cheffins used to hold a big outdoor auction once a year - lot of collectables & other stuff from strange hand tools up to tractors & even the odd traction engine. Used to be a number of tractor seat collectors turned up at them and rare seats used to go for ridiculous prices. Saw one sell for over £1000. Don't think they reach that price nowadays.
 

Gramaisc

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A long time ago Cheffins used to hold a big outdoor auction once a year - lot of collectables & other stuff from strange hand tools up to tractors & even the odd traction engine. Used to be a number of tractor seat collectors turned up at them and rare seats used to go for ridiculous prices. Saw one sell for over £1000. Don't think they reach that price nowadays.
I got that at the Common boot sale years ago - an odd one to see in these islands, a Stoddard from Dayton, Ohio. probably common enough even further west.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Anticipating a very wet day, which never really happened, I committed to a Shed Day, after the Lidl run.

I added a feature to the parts tray and fitted the base - I'll make the runners when/if I finally decide where it will live.

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I have most of the material/parts for a second, but I would have to increase my brandy consumption dramatically for a full replica in the immediate future.


I also decided that a fixed, but removable, end-stop might be a good idea for the sunken measuring tape.

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The threaded rods function as locating dowels and it is such a tight fit that the wing-nuts are largely superfluous.

It's deliberately asymmetrical to avoid putting it on the wrong way round.
 
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