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Rob must be working from home to find the time for all this non-car stuff.

New shed looks great, perfect for shelves, a lathe and other Must-Have items that complete a real garage.

3 more skips?

How did you have so much snow when we only had light mist and I flew my model plane in still air @11 deg C?

911hillclimber wrote:Rob must be working from home to find the time for all this non-car stuff.

New shed looks great, perfect for shelves, a lathe and other Must-Have items that complete a real garage.

3 more skips?

How did you have so much snow when we only had light mist and I flew my model plane in still air @11 deg C?

The snow was from a week or two back. We had loads in Lichfield when even Birmingham a few miles away had only a light dusting.

I took about 4 days off work to get the shed done. Tried to pick the warmest driest days but it was utterly soaking and freezing. I ordered the shed 6 months ago and there is no way I was giving up that delivery spot.

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Given all the joys of Christmas - shopping, pantomime, entertaining the in-laws, I've struggled to get started filling the shed.

The time I've found for my projects, I've spent putting together a more compact bench and shelves in the garage.

I clamped up a couple of rafter offcuts to make a counter top.



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Stripped back the plasterboard and shifted this tap to make room to extend the bench.


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I built some shelves over the counter top, with a plywood backing so I can mount tools on the wall if needs be.


A bit of a waste of solid mahogany boards but I have no other use for them right now so I may as well use them up. I'm undecided whether to paint it.

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Schoolboy error here; I put the shelf in too close below the sockets, leaving no room for the cables.


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Next: either make or buy a mobile workbench to fit underneath. Once that's done I should be in a position to clear out some wood to the shed and make room for a car.

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Couldn’t you have just turned the sockets upside down ?

hot66 wrote:Couldn’t you have just turned the sockets upside down ?

Yes, that would've worked, although cables came in from the side with little slack in the cable. I considered a few options, also including this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Neostar-Adapto ... B00LC1DRCY and other cranked socket adapters but given I have lots to do I decided on the easy and relatively immediate solution.

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Why not just put the sockets beneath the shelf. The shelf space will be useless in front the the sockets as you will need to plug/ unplug items.

If you can’t move the sockets beneath the shelf, then why not just make a cut out big enough to pass the plug through so as to be able to plug something in

Just a thought, just a thought

markm wrote:Why not just put the sockets beneath the shelf. The shelf space will be useless in front the the sockets as you will need to plug/ unplug items.

If you can’t move the sockets beneath the shelf, then why not just make a cut out big enough to pass the plug through so as to be able to plug something in

Just a thought, just a thought

I considered that but mahogany is quite brittle and this is a long unsupported span potentially carrying heavy weights so I didn't want to weaken it too much, so I just drilled out holes for the cables.

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Or sockets fixed under front edge of the bench, makes the leads on your tools that bit longer, and not buried in your stuff on the bench! Hny, W

Winston Teague wrote:Or sockets fixed under front edge of the bench, makes the leads on your tools that bit longer, and not buried in your stuff on the bench! Hny, W

Nice idea. Might nick that one!

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Inspired by the video linked above I fixed a large mahogany board to the narrow shelf using three piano hinges.


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...I still have some supports to put in before it'll be a usable workbench, but here's the extended shelf in the down position. I loaded up a few tools.


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