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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3800 on: July 16, 2017, 06:29:36 PM »
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3801 on: July 16, 2017, 06:30:54 PM »
Quote from: SJindustries on July 16, 2017, 06:29:36 PM
nice dream you got going  ;D

Nah. Got the in-laws 60th wedding anniversary.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3802 on: July 16, 2017, 06:37:06 PM »
Quote from: GeoffA on July 16, 2017, 06:30:54 PM
Nah. Got the in-laws 60th wedding anniversary.
Yeah  :angel:, dream time  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3803 on: July 16, 2017, 06:56:08 PM »
Quote from: Rumpig on July 16, 2017, 06:25:15 PM
one thing wrong with going to the beach in Winter.... it's bloody cold getting under the vehicle to hose all that sand and salt out when you get home. I needed to stand in the sun for about 20 minutes the other weekend trying to warm my feet back up after doing my fourby, they were freezing cold...lol...it doesn't seem as bad a job to do in Summer.
The thing is Mal, I'm going back to Fraser in five weeks on a solo trip, Tossing up whether to just do a quick go over or give it the usual full clean down ? [ Dont think I can live with just giving it a light go over till I get back off that one, it wouldnt feel right ] .
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3804 on: July 16, 2017, 07:38:37 PM »
Quote from: edz on July 16, 2017, 06:56:08 PM
The thing is Mal, I'm going back to Fraser in five weeks on a solo trip, Tossing up whether to just do a quick go over or give it the usual full clean down ? [ Dont think I can live with just giving it a light go over till I get back off that one, it wouldnt feel right ] .
i went to Bribe the weekend before Fraser,  can't say I bothered going overboard cleaning it from there....just a quick hose down underneath at 8 p.m when we got home, that was bloody cold...lol.
5 weeks is a bit different though, I'd be giving it several good flush outs and a wash ASAP.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3805 on: July 17, 2017, 06:43:21 AM »
Kids were having a sleep I yesterday so I got some shed time. Planned to shorten the brake lines on two bikes, having purchased the small parts a couple of weeks ago. Could not find them, but the workspace got a good tidy up after looking for the parts for ages. Guess the only way I'm going to find them now is to go and buy some new ones. They'll be guaranteed to turn up 5min after I get back with the new bits.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3806 on: July 17, 2017, 07:20:58 AM »
Built Rosella nesting boxes  for a mate , hopefully they will be occupied .
Nesting season is upon us              :cheers:
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3807 on: July 17, 2017, 06:51:00 PM »
Quote from: speewa158 on July 17, 2017, 07:20:58 AM
Built Rosella nesting boxes  for a mate , hopefully they will be occupied .
Nesting season is upon us              :cheers:
Did you mount the nesting boxes on a spring ?  ;D
What about a sign "For a rocking time"  :angel: :angel:
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3808 on: July 17, 2017, 07:01:19 PM »
Quote from: speewa158 on July 17, 2017, 07:20:58 AM
Built Rosella nesting boxes  for a mate , hopefully they will be occupied .
Nesting season is upon us              :cheers:

Cool....I had 23 boxes around the yard at last count, but they are made out of cheap ply and have twisted / warped / fallen apart over time. I've been gathering a big pile of hollow logs to replace them all, just need to find the shed time for that project.

Biggest drama I have with them is keeping the indian minors under control.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3809 on: July 17, 2017, 08:54:41 PM »
Quote from: Spada on July 17, 2017, 07:01:19 PM
Cool....I had 23 boxes around the yard at last count, but they are made out of cheap ply and have twisted / warped / fallen apart over time. I've been gathering a big pile of hollow logs to replace them all, just need to find the shed time for that project.

Biggest drama I have with them is keeping the indian minors under control.
lm only new at this gig of nesting boxes . l have only built 37 to date . l use 13mm pine laminated sheets  . The pine  are cut up to size  , glued & nailed
Treated pine in a No No  so that's out . Ply wood is a waste of time . l have 1 client that is using ply boxes cause they were $2.50 cheaper than my quote .
Time will tell                 >:D                     :cheers:
Check out the lndian Minor bird traps  , they really work well    :cheers:
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3810 on: July 18, 2017, 08:28:58 AM »
Quote from: speewa158 on July 17, 2017, 08:54:41 PM
Check out the lndian Minor bird traps  , they really work well    :cheers:

Yep, got a trap and have caught up to 20 at a time when they were at their worst. I used to be forever up a ladder cleaning the buggers out as soon as I saw them nesting, but they just keep rebuilding the nest. Now I let them go until their eggs have hatched.........then the butcher birds and kookaburra's get a good feed  ;D and it is too late in their season to re-nest, so the breeding cycle is broken.

To hang the boxes, I use a bit of fence wire fed through some garden hose with a trampoline spring on one end. The spring allows the tree to grow without the wire ring-barking it.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3811 on: July 18, 2017, 07:09:02 PM »
Spada  l do like the spring thing  Well Done My Man  :cheers:

l might use that as an original      :-* :-*                      :cheers:
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3812 on: August 12, 2017, 03:49:13 PM »
Knocked up a battery box for the back of the BT50, for my two new 175Ah batteries. The largest commercial boxes I could find suited 130Ah, and these batteries are a lot bigger than that. Front and back walls are 12mm ply, while the ends, top and bottom are all 19mm ply. I haven't done anything fancy re connectors at this stage, as I just needed it finished for a trip at the end of the month.

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3813 on: August 13, 2017, 02:37:26 PM »
Wow thats some battery storage - what are you trying to do, fix the SA power grid?
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3814 on: August 13, 2017, 02:46:14 PM »
those would be some fuggin heavy batteries...
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3815 on: August 14, 2017, 11:11:55 AM »
Took this:


and made it look like this:


In other news, moving house sucks.
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3816 on: August 14, 2017, 09:02:10 PM »
The next time l move is to a Granit Condo at Boot Hill                   :cup:
There carrying me out in a  " Pine  Box  "   Enjoy the Wake    :cup: :cheers:
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What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3817 on: August 15, 2017, 07:57:35 AM »
This weekend I serviced my Mitsubishi pajero, its my work car. Changed oils and filters.

I then proceeded to change the front and rear pads and change the brake fluid
I have found the lights slightly mediocre on dark country roads.

So now I have bought some new led lights for the Amarok, I took the old light bar off the amarok

I also got some old lightforce 140 spotlights from the brother in law and fitted them to the Pajero

I discovered the light bar would not fit between the posts of the Pajero bullbar, so had to do some inventive fitting. I'm pretty happy with it though. It doesn't sit forward of the bar so I should be safe with the law, and no longer scared of the dark

On a serious note, I can't believe how much better my brakes are, not that they seemed bad, just now they must be like new. Amazing how you don't notice slight changes over time


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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3818 on: August 17, 2017, 10:45:53 PM »
Made up some Anderson plug power leads and fitted them to the solar blanket / fridge battery .. Will get a work out on Fraser in four days . 8) .
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3819 on: August 18, 2017, 11:38:13 AM »
Been a while since I posted here (and on myswag in general. Life gets in the way.) but I have been busy in the shed building sets for a few musicals.
Here are a couple of examples of the work.
https://youtu.be/KpFrxAdUnc0
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3820 on: August 18, 2017, 11:40:56 AM »
Those sets look great. The people are so life like  ;D
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3821 on: August 18, 2017, 12:03:54 PM »
Quote from: lino6 on August 18, 2017, 11:40:56 AM
Those sets look great. The people are so life like  ;D
It took a lot of work to get Cinderella that way (she is my Daughter) but I cant take credit for the others. They were made by several other.......um parents ;D ;D
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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3822 on: August 18, 2017, 12:43:18 PM »
Quote from: Crisp Image on August 18, 2017, 11:38:13 AM
Been a while since I posted here (and on myswag in general. Life gets in the way.) but I have been busy in the shed building sets for a few musicals.
Here are a couple of examples of the work.
https://youtu.be/KpFrxAdUnc0
Regards
Crispy
They look great Crispy, i used to really enjoy making sets when my two daughters used to dance. Your sets make me miss it a bit but not the backstage work, geez those dance mums can be hard work

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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3823 on: August 18, 2017, 12:45:21 PM »
Hi,
   The new NBN modem was bigger than my old ADSL one, so I decided to tidy things up off the bench.



Took a few bricks out and made a box.



Put a ventilated door on it to keep it tidy.


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Re: What did you do in your shed / man cave today?
« Reply #3824 on: August 18, 2017, 12:48:07 PM »
Removing all the stuff in the shed, into a container. Tetris r us style


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