18th January 2014 - Various Hobbies - Workshop Update

Sadly the 1st comment left on this post, was unrecoverable from the harddrive crash!

Stephen Osborn - its taking longer than i planned and blown the budget as well - but its made a huge difference in there

Anne McGarrie - Rome wasn't built in a day and all that twaddle, but take it from me you are doing a great job x

Stephen Osborn - its doing its job - keeping my mind off next month

Anne McGarrie - Just take it steady, we are all behind you for next month x

Firstly we move timber boards out into the brown shed, to give us a bit more room.

This is the double glazed door frame we will be using.
Its too bloody tall or my walls are too short take your pick

this lovely 4x5" timber was in the brown shed,

and should prove ideal for the footings for the door

All this has gotta go .....

As its currently in my way at the moment.

The wood pile, that we have salvaged some 2x3" battons from.
Also young Michael and myself will be moving the whole pile tomorrow and Monday
God only knows were to at the moment,

but we need to have access to the current side door and to fit the door footings.

Strawbs is busy de-nailing the 3x2

Whilst I start to empty the all this stuff from under the bench.

I find a nissin front caliper, hopefully it will replace my seized one if its the same side

That's the top shelf cleared

and the floor underneath is soon clear as well

got fed up tripping over wires, so fitted an gang socket in the electrics cupboard and plugged everything into it.

and tidied up the other cables to the roof for now

the hole were he fridge was, is now filled up with stuff from under the bench

also having to loose a bit more floor space

CBR1000F engine in bits - have someone interested in some if not all of it

Box of cbr1000f engine bits

After a sweep up its measuring time

We need to secure these bench legs and its important for the door frame we are gonna install that these a perfectly level
and then we screw it to the floor to keep it all in line

time to make up the centre beam to stop the shelf bowing,

again the wood is salvaged from the wood pile outside

and the bit in front of the tool box.

Strawbs is still sorting the shelf out

So I give the front of the bench a coat of paint

And we soon have the shelf back in place,

not quiet got all the bow out,

but will pull the screws up a bit tomorrow till the bow is gone.

We have cut of the wet rotten ends of the 3x2 and measured them.

and this is were we realise that this 3x2

is just not gonna give us the straight edge we need for the door frame

so as we sat down talking I suggest using some of the valuable

(to me as cant afford to buy anymore for the next month or two)

and screw a bit of equally valuable 2x2 to it

We cutting down to length approx 10cms longer than we need.
Strawbs likes to cut wood by hand if possible,

We soon have it done

Right I cant remember why we screwing these two bits of 3x2 together, I am sure it will come back to me.

Gary Strawbridge - Big thick bit for over the door / support the roof / to prove we could...

Stephen Osborn - cheers for reminding m8 :)

its good solid wood as we brake a drill bit that wont come out!

Often Strawbs n me seem to come to a conclusion/ rest period, know when enough is enough together.

Strawbs having fun with his safety glasses

we both happy with today's progress, He was right about not ripping the door out today,

as things took us a while longer to do than i thought and some plans just didn't work out.

Not sure if I can find the time to get down here tomorrow as its "ebay/mags4nabd main processing day,"

so i can post/ship out early monday morning.

we will have to see.

Many thanks again to Strawbs for help over the last few days its been a real laugh and got jobs done that are easier with help