100% Biker – August 2019

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THE WOODEN WORKTOP WILL ALSO KEEP

YOUR TEA OR COFFEE HOTTER FOR LONGER...

With the drawers back in the bottom one holds two

grinders, a drill, the jigsaw and the power file without getting

overcrowded (Fig.13); the top one will hold accessories for the

power tools, discs for the grinders, belts for the power file and

belt sander and one of the ubiquitous plastic storage bins hooks

is on the side of the drawer to provide a home for the drill bits

(Fig.14). The theory here is that, because all the stuff I’m likely

to need for a certain kind of job is in one place, if I go to fetch

the grinder and come back with the fabrication station (Fig.15),

then I’m likely to have anything else I’ll need, all in one place.

There will probably be a few mods to the inside of the drawers

to keep things better organised and no doubt there will be a

few more things hung off of the side (files, hacksaw). There is

also one slightly less obvious advantage in that the wooden

worktop will keep your tea or coffee hotter for longer than

setting it down on masonry or metal...p

Fig. 10

Fig. 13

Fig. 11

Fig. 14

Fig. 12

Fig. 15

top of the cabinet with some 10mm x 50mm coach bolts (Fig.10).

The original plan was to take the single socket off the extension

lead and fit the four-way, but the four-way turned out to be

glued together so I had to settle for plugging it into the lead. A

length of wooden batten was cut to give one piece 16 inches long

and another that was the length of the four-way.

The back of the cabinet was drilled to accept some wood screws

and the two pieces of batten crewed to the cabinet from the inside.

Then the front of the longer piece was drilled for two more screws

on which to hang the four way (Fig.11). That gave me somewhere

to wind the cable onto, plug things into the trolley and be

protected from banging into walls and so on by the overhang. The

vice was mounted to the side with no overhang using some more

of the coach bolts (which was why I’d opted for the 10mm ones

instead of a more reasonable 8mm to hold the top on) and the belt

sander attached on the opposite side with four of the 5 x 40mm

woodscrews. The overhang on the side is there so things can be

hung on the side without too much danger of catching passing

legs; currently there’s an M6 bolt and nut which the framing

squares can hang off of secured by a wing nut (Fig.12).