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And another storage solution. One of the custom drawers I built is for spray cans and caulking gun tubes:
The cans tend to roll back and forward in the drawer, so I've drilled some holes through the left side and into the middle divider, then installed seven 10 mm dowels to prevent rolling:
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This is a little invention I made years ago now
Rivets need the correct size hole drilled to insert them. The three common sizes are 1/8", 5/32" and 3/16". They are imperial sizes because rivets were invented before the widespread introduction of the metric system.
It's always a pain to locate the correct drill bit so I glued a little tube inside the handle of my rivet gun to hold three imperial size drill bits so they're always on hand. The cap on the left keeps them inside the tube.
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The metal spikes are galvanised nails added to anchor the post in the concrete, the bit at the bottom is a plastic cap siliconed into place to stop concrete, and in particular alkaline cement, going up the inside of the post. Final result is this:
The white band is a strip of foam that I put alu corner brackets up against in the concrete so line trimmer use won't strip the powder-coating off the post, after tapering off the concrete so water will run off to the sides. Now all I need to do is wait for it to finish curing and drop it into the hole out on the street.
I spent my day putting up some trellis to hide the garden shed. Now that there are two panels up I think I will add a third.
First time I have used that fast setting concrete for posts. Works very well, makes setting post easy.
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neb: This is the result of the how-long-does-premix-concrete-last thread elsewhere. What I needed to do was concrete in a new letterbox to replace the current one which is hopeless for keeping water out in a coastal environment. Rather than concrete it into the ground, with little control over where the concrete goes, and leads to problems in fixing the letterbox post at the correct height and angle (you can't just nail on some braces), I cast the concrete into a form with the post at exactly the right height and perfectly vertical, then I'll drop the concrete base into a hole and it's done. Initial setup is:
But don’t you still have get the correct height and angle with the whole kit ‘n kaboodle? Well, angle at least.
Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.
New raised garden bed thing built over the last weekend. Need to get some timber to finish off the top of the edges but pretty chuffed with it.
Torquenstein:New raised garden bed thing built over the last weekend. Need to get some timber to finish off the top of the edges but pretty chuffed with it.
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