At some point I'll get a post started on my garage and how its progressing from a full of rubbish, leaking, pre-fab monstrosity to something a little more usable with the long term aim of maybe even getting a car in there to work on it! Until then I'd like to share my first project which seemed very high on the list of priorities considering the fairly cool spring we seem to be having... The photo's may not represent the true chronological order of things and there will be a lot of gaps between progress due to me being toss at remembering to take pictures. Bear in mind also that I'm new to fabrication so feel free to have a laugh at my expense as I try to glue things together with a welder that is both older than me and been the victim of one of my 'rebuilds'
Sorry for the ramble, let's get some pictures going!
So here's one of the early photo's. It started with 1" tube legs but looked a bit er... shat! I remembered about the dead ABL block out of my van so cut the legs off and fitted these. Door is cut and tack welded back into place ready for making the hinges and window is cut out and held in with four bits of threaded bar, washers and nuts.
Next step (in the photo's anyway) hinges made out out of 6mm plate and welded on, old bean bolt tacked into 13mm spanner and passed through the door into old bean nut welded into place for the catch and we're here:
From t'other side:
So then the scrap man turns up for the fridge I've left on the front lawn and I collar him to see if there's owt on his truck that I fancy, turns out he's got around 3m of 100mm tube, score! So with a few templates printed off:
Will it work?
Yessum! BZZZZZT *grind*:
So now, getting excited, I decide to cobble it together to see what it will look like:
Winner! Dead happy with that so I decided on a test burn because I can't remember the last time I nearly suffocated on burning paint/galv fumes...
And with the light's off:
So that's where the photo's on my phone get to. In the next installment of 'Ballbag builds CO deathtrap' I'll get some photo's of the finer details and further progress.
If you've read this far then you definitely don't have ADD and you're welcome to come and have a brew in the man lab at any time you're passing through NG17. Future posts will be less wordy, I promise!
Cheers, Lee.
Sorry for the ramble, let's get some pictures going!
So here's one of the early photo's. It started with 1" tube legs but looked a bit er... shat! I remembered about the dead ABL block out of my van so cut the legs off and fitted these. Door is cut and tack welded back into place ready for making the hinges and window is cut out and held in with four bits of threaded bar, washers and nuts.
Next step (in the photo's anyway) hinges made out out of 6mm plate and welded on, old bean bolt tacked into 13mm spanner and passed through the door into old bean nut welded into place for the catch and we're here:
From t'other side:
So then the scrap man turns up for the fridge I've left on the front lawn and I collar him to see if there's owt on his truck that I fancy, turns out he's got around 3m of 100mm tube, score! So with a few templates printed off:
Will it work?
Yessum! BZZZZZT *grind*:
So now, getting excited, I decide to cobble it together to see what it will look like:
Winner! Dead happy with that so I decided on a test burn because I can't remember the last time I nearly suffocated on burning paint/galv fumes...
And with the light's off:
So that's where the photo's on my phone get to. In the next installment of 'Ballbag builds CO deathtrap' I'll get some photo's of the finer details and further progress.
If you've read this far then you definitely don't have ADD and you're welcome to come and have a brew in the man lab at any time you're passing through NG17. Future posts will be less wordy, I promise!
Cheers, Lee.
