eracode:

 

tweake:

 

 

 

something wrong with your google. machinery house shows old page that includes the manual for it.

 

 

No idea what was wrong with this.

 

thats weird because if you take out the " " it works perfectly. that looks to be a google issue as i can replicate it here.

I use Google Advanced Search as a matter of course - and particularly the ‘this exact word or phrase’ box when it seems appropriate - which gives the “ “. It’s meant to provide more accurate searches - but in this case not so much.

Not current but one from the Archive Department:

Around 1990 when our son, now 37, was graduating from his baby bed to a ‘proper bed’, Mrs Code was keen to get him one of those slab-sided MDF, Ferrari racing car type beds. We looked at them in shops and to me they looked awful and were expensive for what you got.

I thought “Nah, I can do better than that” - so I made him this:

It’s a 7/10 scale model of a SWB Series 1 Land Rover. It’s made primarily of 16mm MDF with multiple thicknesses built up where needed for curves - which were carved, planed and sanded to shape. Our neighbour had a SWB Series 1 so I was able to take measurements from that and use it for reference. It was built to accommodate a standard single bed mattress and the bonnet opens so that bed-making is easy. One door opens to facilitate entry at nigh-nighs time. The wheels and tyres are off an old Mini and came from a wrecker along with Mini headlights. The wheels don’t take any weight - there are 100x50mm legs behind them. 

I sanded and primed it then took it to a spray-painter. I got the correct colour spec from the Fire Service and supplied the paint to the sprayer. Then got a sign-writer to print the self-adhesive decals.

I spent more than the Ferrari bed would have cost but it was a lot of fun to make and he loved it. He slept in it until he was about 11yo when we sold it on TM. 

Or did he have to sleep in the garage?😀

Have two DIY style projects I'm going to take serious looking at over next couple of months.

1) Arcade machine restoration. I've been saying it for a few years now that I'm going to do it, but now we have the space to have it out and useable, I'm going to get into fixing it up to look new.

2) Family member passed away couple years ago, and turns out he had a Ford Cortina sitting in a storage shed (He owned the storage yard). So a couple of us are going to make the trip to the yard (2.5hrs away) and pull the car out and see if it runs, and and if its worth working on for a bit of fun. Not sure if its a Mk4 or 5 yet...... I'll know by end of the month.

Bung: Did your son's bedroom have a roller door onto the drive?

Sort of - the bed was downstairs so it had to come up in the car lift before it could get out. 

I never felt he was traumatised by the bed but oddly he never expressed any interest in being a firey. Maybe having to sleep in a heavy fire-proof uniform put him off. 😀

eracode:

 

I thought “Nah, I can do better than that” - so I made him this:

 

Very cool. Impressive attention to detail.

Surely there's a market out there for beds other than Ferraris like say, lowered utes and outbacks.

Cybertree for Christmas!

What's the base? Is it metal repurposed from another table?

And speaking of family and Christmas, there's this alternative take:

neb:

 

What's the base? Is it metal repurposed from another table?

 

And speaking of family and Christmas, there's this alternative take:

 

Timber base re-purposed from another table I had where the top had basically fallen to bits