[Pubic]

Otherwise known as Gillard.

[Polar_Bear]

I'm half way thru building a beer garden






Complete with fake horsey doors

[Fatzook]

Nice! Resuarant or residential?

[Polar_Bear]

Fatzook wrote:

Nice! Resuarant or residential?

Pub / restaurant, this area used to be the pokie room

[atari4x4]

if only you worked that fast on your own junk.

[DarkHorse]

Ha! Looks good PB

[KEENSY85]

Blkfxx wrote:

Wood fab.

Looks very shmick

[Fatzook]

One of the two double hinge assemblies for my workshop Gantry crane. It will have a 360deg range of movement.


Thats a 250mL 'V' can next to it.

[shep]

I made a paper airplane.

[tonyevans]

Is that for the pulse jet Shep?

[Nick.storm]

Hey I'm new here, check out this off road buggy I made a couple of yrs ago
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9O4OElZqBiE

[Nick.storm]

The buggy

[Nick.storm]

I also make custom timber snare drums

[Built4thrashing]

The wife was bugging me to put some outside storage on the deck. I started looking at flat pack crap but nothing fitted in the space we had. A builder mate gave me a call and said he had a cabinet that may fit so i went and grabbed it.

Its an old school timber wall unit. Crappy green painted doors and chipboard top but the frame was very sturdy.



only grabbed the base as i didnt have a use for the top.



Started stripping the old paint back and its a hardwood frame......Blackwood even



Had to add some bling to it.

[MacDaddy]

That turned out pretty spiffy B4T !

[Built4thrashing]

Thanks mate. Im kinda happy with it but i know it has a few flaws that i could make better.

[gvzookdriver]

Built4thrashing wrote:

Thanks mate. Im kinda happy with it but i know it has a few flaws that i could make better.

like the pink LEDs

[jdk81]

Here is the cubby I made for my daughters 3 yr old birthday.



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I made it from recycled pallets, with $40 of wood from bunnings.
The white laserlight roofing cost $60 (not in pic)
Its not quite finished yet, I need to add some wood to the corners, and finish the temporarily permanent roof fixture.
It took me about 2 days, with one day spent stripping pallets and sanding wood, and one day building.

I scored some pink exterior primer paint for free, so it will get painted soon. Will be pink, with white trim.

I made it to fit in a 6x4 trailer, and so it can be adjusted as she grows.

[MacDaddy]

Its a great cubby house... but... you have to be careful with pallets, especially older pallets, as they are treated with a chemical, that can be toxic, they arnt good to burn either, as some have found out, as the chemical gets in the smoke and people breath it in, and dont feel good... i am pretty sure they did switch to a safer chemical treatment with newer pallets... is yours is one of the newer pallets ?

[jdk81]

Yeah they are all fairly new pallets, and they came from food factories.
I figure once painted, it will seal pretty well anyway.

Edit: i double checked the stamps on the pallets, and as i expected they were only heat treated.
not allowed to use methyl bromide treatred pallets on foodstuffs.

[Fatzook]

jdk81 wrote:

Yeah they are all fairly new pallets, and they came from food factories.
I figure once painted, it will seal pretty well anyway.

Definately paint it. Pallet splinters give the most wicked infections!!!!

[alien]

paint it or stain it? it'd look fantastic in a nice stain IMO! Tell her its a gentlemens log cabin =) lol

[DarkHorse]

Several coats with a stain/varnish would come up nice.

[zooky08]

Compressor platform

[royce]

Tee Strainer to filter the shit out of my new mini engine that I was lied too about the amount of shit inside it

The plastic should hold up long enough to get all the gunk out and thats nothing but the highest quality aluminium flyscreen

Modelled on the 42" ones we supplied through work to teh gas plants, Liz is going to hate the words tee strainer soon

[DarkHorse]

Cute... kind of car stuff though

[Blkfxx]

Little update.

[NomadGV03]

Had enough with trying to work off chairs and bricks, so i finally decided to make a decent workbench from x2 $20 benches from K-mart and some 1800mm planks of 16mm MDF i got from Bunnings. All up is was about $62.50.
The $2.50 was for the sausage sizzle

[missmyljdaze]

Save splashing, spraying and flicking assorted car gunk onto the fence by getting hardieflex fibro and jamming it between the bench and the fence, and same stuff on the ground with some rubbery workshop floor interlocking tile thingo's on top of the fibro to stand on.

If you are renting it will keep the landlord happy ["happier" is probably a better word- no such thing as a truly "happy" landlord]

When the fibro carks it- or its time to move, just break it up into little bits and bin it.
Much easier - and way cheaper- than trying to get oil, grease and paint out of the fibro fence or paving bricks- and if you are renting it will probably mean getting your bond back.

stephen

[NomadGV03]

Thankyou for the heads-up and i did take that in mind as i tried to make it as light as possible so i could move it around to work in the sun
I have now fitted a vice and it added 25kg to one end and moving is a little more tricky and yes that is paint on the bricks where the seal broke off a spray can and went everywhere in the pic below.
Will be adding a fold-up back-wall later on and adding some of that matting you said which I'm sure should be cheap enough at Clark Rubber or maybe someone has some seconds laying around or some old carpet - Though when i grind, carpet wouldn't be recommended
Luckily i am friends with the landlords daughter when i moved in and we go to parties and stuff together so i don't have to pay a bond and i do a lot of renovating around the house for her. But a contract is still in-place and same rules probably still apply regardless of bond or not now