mbikeboy
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As some of you may know, I've been toying around with ideas for a rear drawer setup for my Disco for ages. I did a heap of different designs, never really settled one, and the project lingered...having obsessed over so many of the plans I'd drawn up earlier, I confused myself and couldn't make a start!
One sleepless night I'd totally re-thought what materials to use and decided to hit the hardware store in the morning. I bought a stack of aluminium square section, and various connectors to build a frame. Basically, I measured up my fridge and started to cut up the pieces...in no time I'd knocked this sucker up, but was scratching my head figuring out how to do the rest of it, and that's where it remained:
The other day, I was given a pretty rough home-made drawer set from a D1 for free (as the dude had upgraded to a Puma). I was really excited, thinking that this would save me a lot of effort and just needed a tidy-up, that is until I realised that it didn't like my cargo barrier. To make it fit meant ripping the entire unit, drawers and shelves to pieces and pretty much starting over! It wasn't worth the time and effort. :doh:
Out of frustration, I pulled out the unit I'd started building a while back and had a bit of a re-think... Walking away from a problem for a while definitely works!!!
Today I bought a ****-load of plywood in 7mm (for the sides/back) and in 12mm (for the top and drawers), different aluminium channels for finishing edges properly, and a 3m roll of marine carpet.
I spent all afternoon measuring up and cutting the ply. It now has sides, a top and a drawer finished! It's come up far better than I had imagined, is incredibly strong, lightweight (12kg's approx), and looks totally professional. I'm kicking myself for not getting onto it sooner tbh...I was over-planning things, not going with the flow, and not trusting myself to do a good enough job at making it. Any excuse not to get cracking!
I'll put up some pics tomorrow of progress (the light's too crap here atm), but if you've been wanting to do something like this, just bite the bullet and do it...it's not hard at all, is heaps of fun, and very practical at the end.
One sleepless night I'd totally re-thought what materials to use and decided to hit the hardware store in the morning. I bought a stack of aluminium square section, and various connectors to build a frame. Basically, I measured up my fridge and started to cut up the pieces...in no time I'd knocked this sucker up, but was scratching my head figuring out how to do the rest of it, and that's where it remained:
The other day, I was given a pretty rough home-made drawer set from a D1 for free (as the dude had upgraded to a Puma). I was really excited, thinking that this would save me a lot of effort and just needed a tidy-up, that is until I realised that it didn't like my cargo barrier. To make it fit meant ripping the entire unit, drawers and shelves to pieces and pretty much starting over! It wasn't worth the time and effort. :doh:
Out of frustration, I pulled out the unit I'd started building a while back and had a bit of a re-think... Walking away from a problem for a while definitely works!!!
Today I bought a ****-load of plywood in 7mm (for the sides/back) and in 12mm (for the top and drawers), different aluminium channels for finishing edges properly, and a 3m roll of marine carpet.I spent all afternoon measuring up and cutting the ply. It now has sides, a top and a drawer finished! It's come up far better than I had imagined, is incredibly strong, lightweight (12kg's approx), and looks totally professional. I'm kicking myself for not getting onto it sooner tbh...I was over-planning things, not going with the flow, and not trusting myself to do a good enough job at making it. Any excuse not to get cracking!
I'll put up some pics tomorrow of progress (the light's too crap here atm), but if you've been wanting to do something like this, just bite the bullet and do it...it's not hard at all, is heaps of fun, and very practical at the end.
