this wood was absolute junk. some of it is on it's 3rd recycle use. the vertical supports were from a single, severely split & slightly rotted 2x8. the shelves are a recombination of leftovers from the shelving, trim & finish work from our house construction. about half of the screws were reclaimed as well. the red/white checkered cabinets were removed from a remodel job. we installed them 2 weeks ago. had to do a little Welshman's engineering to move the electrical outlet over 3cm. extremely sturdy, able to stand on them. I "stair stepped" the corner shelves for maximum storage surface area.Part of the wife's Solstice gifts. I will definitely see booba.
>>2883064Very nice looking. I hope the booba is even better!
Nice job. Great use for trash wood. Those cabinet doors are wild. Back when I worked at a cabinet shop, we once did a kitchen where the entire set was a solid bright red. Like those fire extinguishers but a bit less orange. I took pictures because it looked so goofy but I've lost them.How'd you do your plywood edge joints?I'm the type of guy who'd regularly crash my shins into those corner extensions.
>>2883081>Plywood edge jointswhatever took the least number of measurements & cuts. It is plumb & level, but several (most) of the component parts are slightly off-square. it's in the garage, to be used for utility storage, so I want concerned aboot some gaps or shitty (pre-existing) cuts.the lower shelves don't pose a shin threat. I tested prior of final install. your face would need to be in contact with the upper cabinet door before you bang a shin.not a single penny spent. even the screws were recycled. the amount of building material I reclaim, repurpose and recycle is insane. I bet I get 10,000 financial credits worth, per year, for free, through demolition.
>>2883094That piano hinge is hilarious
>>2883081Looks like the cabinet doors are just normal flat white, with drawer liner / contact paper stuck to em. The diy equivalent of covering your macbook in anime stickers.
>>2883081was it red combined with yellow of the pine because those can look good and did you build in the shop after measuring on site or just adjusted prebuilds to kitchen
Id worry about infesting my house with something
>>2885525White melamine interior with flat red everywhere else. No wood to be seen.We were custom builders. Measure the site. Build in shop. Install.
>>2883064Why is your dog always standing in that exact spot like that???
>>2885546what if something ends up being wrong and where do you even split the thing like do you make the whole overhead shelf as a couple pieces or just make the boxes
>>2883064>Built Some...I'm sorry this is /diy/ do you need hand holding, or detailed plans on how to do something? do you need us to think for you? or invent something for you? if not then please go elsewhere.
>>2883064>>2883094record a video of you putting shit on it, I want to see it collapse.
>>2883094the more I look at it the worse it gets.
>>2883064The transformation of trash into something that is useful is the only kind of magic that is real and without ironic sudden changes of states of existence. I really like you carpenter style. I make stuff in that way as well, and I don't give a single for the fucking retards that fail to recognize that time and effort are primary metrics functionality that does not catastrophicly fail in context to systems or structures that have a purpose and utility. When it comes non-art design and construction of tools, and shelves are a tool, I play what I call the game. This is not a game but is the only way I can prove to any ultimate supernormal entites that are watching that I pay attention to the universe such as I can and notice the intelligence in the efficiency and efficacy inherent to the cosmos and life. This proves intelligent intentional design and I measure the solutions to most problems I encounter with the desire for high scores in efficacy, efficiency, orginality, sudden twists that are the recovery from a fail, and the goal of manifesting my anarchy plus wild man plus life of earth driven style. I like hot glue and that is one of my core components that lend the things I make that wild style quasi jungle madman maker of madness that is indeed motivated by method and that the quest for highest efficiency of design that is more effective than the trash so called engineers release that I have mod to make work everytime. When you solve problems with the goal of using the least time, effort, materials, energy, tools, and most of all more style than the black cube of death of the new crass materialist degenerate occidental more liek obsolecent crap created in delusions extreme n total ways.
>>2885571my god shut up
>>2885571
>>2885571DUDE! fuck that's a long way to go, to say "I'm to lazy and poor to buy proper materials".
>>2885588>>2885590>>2885591look at the failure of the weak who can't even fucking compose so much as a coherent insult different from the mindless invective of the hateful and afraid. I heard this a million times and I will it again, I will not shut up and the way my high frequency consciousness instantly fills you with impotent rage is hilarious to me in a way not far from the fact that you are powerless and without any symmetry to me, and I still am the same not stopping and you who demand and scream like little girls come and go and I stronger than all of you together. This is self-evident and I can tell you that I predicted your pathetic little epithets with 10-0% accuracy and this is proof you are not free. You almost certainly were one of the failures to trade in your little bit of free for acceptance, status, wealth, comfort or most likely safety and never even had a baby's taste of real struggle and that how I can now crush you and laugh at your weak little expressions of impotence. You make me sick, immolate yourselves. That means you need a gallon of gasoline, and a bathtub then al little courage after the baptism in the refined blood of life that throbs in the regolith. Then stike match bitch and I mean something other than your irresistable command over appearence you fucking pussie.
>>2885571>>2885612I really didn't read all your word gibberish, but I did start on one, and agree that building things out of reclaimed materials is god tier. However there is still a proper and improper way to do it. Scabbing shit together is poor craftsmanship. Ideally you should build stuff out of reclaimed materials and still not be able to tell.
>>2885612I'm not reading any of that. I'm just going to assume you are mindlessly gibbering.if no one reads your bullshit, did you actually comment?
>>2883064>>2883094that's not recycling, that's slapdashing garbage together. the next person in that house will just tear it out and throw it away.this is recycling. this was 55 years old when I got it, and will very likely last another 55 years.
OP builds crappy shelves out of tossed out garbage.I have acquired then fixed, or refurbished:10 motherboards4 computer power supplieskids furniture8 power tools2 inverters4 stoves1 dishwasher9 lawn mowers1 windows air conditioner3 leaf blowers3 small gasoline enginesa defrost board for a heat pump2 dryers1 washing machine6 computersand and over 300 other things.I fix them at my expense, and donate them to organizations or individuals to use or sell as the see fit.this homo just gives lip service, or something I didn't read any of it.>>2885571>>2885612
>>2883094>not a single penny spent. even the screws were recycled.congratulations you have learned the boomer way.
>>2885687>congratulations you have learned the boomer way.There's really nothing wrong with recycling stuff instead of throwing it all out and buying new constantly, but if I were to build those shelves I would have at least scavenged up some plywood large enough to do each shelf in one continuous piece or at the very least have them in two pieces per shelf instead of jigsaw puzzled together in the corners... But since the deed has already been done, OP could at least put some stick down laminate tile on them to make them look nice, or something to that effect.
>>2885714>There's really nothing wrong with recycling stuff instead of throwing it all outI never said it was. using stuff and fixing it instead of throwing it out is what every boomer I have known does. most of them have the same furniture in their houses that they had when they bought them. they fix everything.
>>2885613> Scabbing shit together is poor craftsmanship. Ideally you should build stuff out of reclaimed materials and still not be able to tell.Agree completely. My father in law slaps recycled garbage materials to make shelves all over the place and it looks absolutely disgusting.No straight lines, rough edges, not level, stained, mixedmaterials, mixed screw types. >But it’s probably sturdy and holds right?Also no. Totally mechanical unsound. A “shelf” would stick out from the wall supported by screws into a 3/4” thick strip of wood. No gusset, no bracket, no straps or chain.
>>2885839>>2885613but it just werks
>>2886472I mean, it doesn't.
>>2883095Makes it officially "steel reinforced"
>but it looks like it was made from scrap!it's a garage shelf you clownsit doesn't have to look nice
>>2886527>it's a garage shelf you clowns>it doesn't have to look niceI would prefer my garage and shop benches, and shelves to be high quality...
>>2886548Maybe you didn't realize that the shelves OP made aren't for you. That's okay. He probably should have communicated that.
>>2886564>Maybe you didn't realize that the shelves OP made aren't for you. That's okay. He probably should have communicated that.Maybe he shouldn't have blogged it on this site for everyone to critique then. I could go take a shit in the toilet and post up a picture of it on here. I will make it specifically for you.
>>2886568Thank you, I would appreciate that.
>>2886548you are spoiled
>>2886510it does
>>2886669baste. matthias wandel would be proud.
>>2886672hes mostly about sound engineering principles and just happens to use reclaimed material plus his reclaimed material is quite high quality probably wouldn't touch mine with a stick
>>2886668>you are spoiledI still build everything myself and with reclaimed materials when possible. I just make things nicer so it is actually more of a pain in my own ass during this construction phase, but i am happier overall after it is built.
>>28866690/10 didn't make his motor out of old cans and telephone wire.
>>2885550it's his spot
>>2885686kids are not garbage and cannot be refurbished
>>2887235
I built theses shelves out of a bunch of short pieces of angle iron that I welded together... And then topped them off with some boards I scavenged from god only knows where...
The angle pile that I used started out looking like this...
Welded them together and then ground them smooth and wire brushed off the loose rust for paint.
They've lived in this little room of the shop for many years now holding extra supplies.
>>2887291Very cool, anon
>>2887288Is there any way I could do this kind of work in an appartment?Noise isn't an issue (I have a heavy bench on rubber wheels that I can dampen further) but how do I not contaminate my work / living room combo with massive amounts of metal dust? I don't have a serial-killer-type plastic bag cleanroom, that's the only trick I'd know to make it work.
>>2887297Is there any outdoor balcony or deck you can use or rent to use? I do all my nasty grinding and welding work that I can outside because it even sucks doing it in the shop and making everything a mess.
>>2887301I have a balcony but I grow plants on it, and I don't particularly want to rain metal contamination on my downstairs neighbors. So I'd really need to set up a cleanroom to do more at home...But that reminds me, there may be a workspace I could use for €15 / month ex. machinery. So if I weld electric, and measure precisely, I may be able to bring my own, do the work in small batches and keep it cheap.
>>2887291this is what something made out of recycled stuff should look like.
>>2887317>this is what something made out of recycled stuff should look like.Thank you anon. I strive to use mostly reclaimed and salvaged materials and use them to build things that someone would swear I bought new material for. I do it constantly and have gotten good at finding the perfect piece of metal or wood for my projects most of the time. Sometimes I have to alter a project slightly on the fly to use materials I already have on hand. Pic rel is some random parts I gathered up to build into a vise. Ended up not using any of the thinner plate and had to grab a few more small pieces of flat along the way to use for gussets and whatnot, but overall I stuck with the original pieces I had conceptualized the vise in my head with.
>>2887317And this was the finished product. Not one thing was bought new for the project besides welding rod. Even the paint was from an auction. I do have a large assortment of steel that I have salvaged over the years, so that alone means I can usually find the perfect piece for my needs.
Sometimes you do want something you built out of reclaimed materials to look like it was built out of reclaimed or old materials. I've built a couple of dog houses out of pallet wood... Pic rel had a plastic pallet floor that I put two heated dog pads onto, and then a salvaged metal frame and pallet boards for siding and roofing. I like the rustic pallet board look. The gap at the top front is where a drawer slides in and out. When it is closed you cannot even tell there is a drawer there...
>>2887456With drawer in.
Here's another one I built out of an old fire brush truck tank. I cut away most of the tank and kept the steel for other projects, then added the pitched roof and angle iron braces. Covered it in reclaimed pallet boards, added a salvaged tin roof, put infrared panel heaters at the back of each section (spots for 3 dogs, and an attic spot for the cats all each have their own heater that all run off of one thermostat) I think I paid a whopping $50 bucks for the tank and got a ton of good steel out of it.
>>2887463Finished up and sitting in the spot it was designed for. My mom's dogs and cats are happy and she's happy, and it looks a ton better than the dog shanty town she had going on before...
>>2887451nice
>>2887288does it wobble
>>2887457i could live in that
>>2887495>does it wobbleI'm sure I had to trim off a leg or two to get it to sit perfectly when I put it in place. I'm also sure I anchored it to the wall for sturdiness and safety's sake but it's been so long I don't remember. So as it sits in that room it is 100% solid.
>>2887525>i could live in thatHad "wall to wall" carpeting in it, from remnants of our house carpeting and was super comfy, but our shithead dogs like to pull it out and carry it around the yard and lay on it and shred it... So it's back to the bare heated floor as of right now... Lol. Here's another one that looks more "repurposed." Cut up an old washing machine or dryer (can't recall exactly) and kept all the straight clean sheet metal for more important projects. I also needed a metal box to keep a 12v hydraulic pump in (old snow-plow pump). It was too big to fit into a 20mm ammo can. So I built my own box for it using up some of the crappier sheet metal from the washer that would otherwise probably have been scrapped. The angle iron frame is actually file hanging supports from a lateral file cabinet. Felt like a true Pakistani hammering this one out...
>>2887611Repurposed snow plow pump with quick connects on it so I can remotely lift farm implements that I buy from far away and drag them home behind a pickup. All tucked nicely in it's own box for storage.
Built this tumbler bowl out of a discarded water heater tank. The original plastic bowl was starting to wear through in a few spots. A new bowl was over half the cost of the entire tumbler. Fuck it, I'll build my own that will last forever...
>>2887618Cut the bottom of the dome out, inverted it and welded it back in to make the cone shaped part in the middle and help media flow correctly. Figured I might have to add a bigger cone in there, but it works great as is, so I just left it like that after trying it out...
18v power supply for old cordless power tools made from an old UPS, only parts that are new are the bridge rectifier, and the smoothing cap.
generator built from an old weedeater, and a wheelchair motor. controller box designed and built by me. can charge a car battery at 7 amps, and run a 100 watt inverter.
>>288786510 amp isolation transformer made from 2 UPS's.
not mine, but a prime example of slavic recycling.
redneck fire pit I built from a washing machine and and an old rim.
battery charger made from an old selenium rectifier battery charger, and a film caddy I got from a thrift store. I bought the last 2 battery charger timers in existance and used one in this.I did have to use a buck converter as the voltage output from the transformer was too high when using a silicon rectifier.
Compost tumbler made from an old Anhydrous Ammonia tank, some old shelving braces, trailer jack handle, and some sprockets and old roller chain.
>>2888090Finished product all painted up.
Yard/garden trailer built out of random steel I had laying around and used some old barn tongue and groove siding for the side boards. If I remember right the only thing I bought was the ball hitch coupler and two 3/4" bolts for the axles. Tires were off an old lawnmower.
>>2888092Dammit forgot pic!
>>2888093Finished product with paint and wood side boards. Has proved quite useful around the house and my wife uses it constantly.
Old oil/fuel tank I turned into a small grain bin to hold ground corn. Cut the bottom of the tank and folded it down to the angle I wanted, scored the sides and folded them back up and then patched in the pieces that were missing. Added a piece of rolled flat on top as the inlet and built a cap for it. Added sight glass front so you can see how much corn is left in there...
>>2888095Painted up and filled with ground corn.
farmanon bossposting as usual. they say say any scrap pile within 250 miles of his torch isnt safe
>>2888092We were out hunting in the desert, found an old homemade trailer that someone took out there and left.brought it home and rebuilt it. forgot to take a before picture.had to replace the bent fence post tongue, axle and hubs, repair and remount the leaf springs, replaced all the wood, and the hitch.
>>2888159this is the closest thing I have to a before picture, after we stripped all the wood off. thing had been sitting in the desert for about 10 years from what I could tell on google earth.
>>2888104>farmanon bossposting as usual. they say say any scrap pile within 250 miles of his torch isnt safeLol. Thanks for the laugh anon! Luckily I don't have to travel that far to find my steel! >>2888159>>2888160Based. Someone left a shitty old pop up camper trailer that had the sides cut down and a blown out tire on the side of the hwy around here for a couple months. It was obvious no one was going to come fix it and get their trailer. It was in a private drive that never gets used, so the HWY dept wasn't going to impound it and take it away I finally stopped in and checked it out. Took the blown tire off and got a used tire for it for $20. Slapped it on and drug it home because I obviously needed another damn project! Ended up making this pile to leave on another farm and pull around with a 4 wheeler. It's awesome for picking up fluffy/bulky material. If you need to pick up some loose hay in a field, or last year I tore out an old field that had a bunch of drip tape in it for the past 20ish years. We pulled countless loads of that crap out of there with this trailer and a 4-wheeler and hauled it to an old rotted out stock tank and burned it. It was a damn mess... I did buy the used aluminum decking material to make the floor light yet strong, Boards were from some old corrals, sideboard braces were old sign posts, made a tailgate out of some old crusher screen. Basically slapped together stuff I had on hand once again.
This is as close to a before pic as I have. After I stripped what was left of the sides and OBS floor off of the thing and got it down to the frame... These pop up campers are super light built.
The above pic with the stripped down pop up trailer frame has a 1000 gallon Anhydrous Ammonia tank in the background. Ended up turning that into another red diesel tank for my house. Paid $500 for the tank sitting on John Deere wagon running gear, and another $40 for an unworking 110v fuel pump. Got the pump going with a cheap rebuild kit and probably have less than $600 into the whole setup. Built this flammable cabinet for my shop out of an old fuel transfer tank. Cut it open, added hinges, stiffened the edges, added shelves and plugged up the holes. Built a latch and now it houses gallons of paint, spray paint, ether, and other stuff like that.
Got two of these natural gas filter shacks from someone in the oil field. Can't remember what I paid for them, maybe $300 a piece. Gutted out a shit ton of fittings and pipe from each one, each shack also had a natural gas Catadyne heater in it and had foil lined foam insulation. Pulled those giant tank filter deals out and patched the holes. Added shelving and use them as general purpose shacks for keeping stuff organized and put away. I have one at my house and keep my tiller and a bunch of gardening stuff in it for my wife. And one at the shop where I keep a bunch of small engine stuff (chainsaws, concrete saw, backpack blower, post hole digger, etc) as well as a couple of gas cans and other random stuff. They stay nice and out of the weather and don't clog up my working space in my shop, also don't have to worry about gas fumes and sparks as much in my working space.
>>2888202Used one of those heavy walled tanks and some of the pipe from the above shacks and built a forge.
now woodwork actually seems like it's for fags and women
>>2889414imagine being this insecure.
>>2888094Beautiful
>>2888090Hey, thanks for this.I live in a small one bedroom apt, and now I know what to do with all my anyhydrous ammonia tanks I’ve been collecting, I’ve got dozens of them, some are new and full though.So relatable.
>>2889674>Hey, thanks for this.>I live in a small one bedroom apt, and now I know what to do with all my anyhydrous ammonia tanks I’ve been collecting, I’ve got dozens of them, some are new and full though.>So relatable.Sure thing champ! I just use what is cheap, available, and near by for my projects. Use whatever you happen to have around and make something out of it. >>2889643>BeautifulThanks anon! Pic rel is a press brake I made out of some toolbar from agricultural equipment. That solid bar is 2.5" in square if I remember correctly, and it's pretty tough stuff. Definitely more carbon than mild steel. I machined a slot in a couple pieces one time to make a pair of slides for a headache rack on a flatbed and it wasn't much fun... >>2889414>now woodwork actually seems like it's for fags and womenWhy do you say that? I appreciate wood work when it's done properly. I'm not very good at it myself, but I also haven't dedicated much time or effort into working with wood either.
Bottom side. Ended up adding a couple pieces of flat that connect the bottoms of all the plate legs and it slides right into place on my hydraulic press and notches into the table so it hast to be centered and cannot move side to side or front to back any.
Spring pocket counterbore. If I remember right I did this with a carbide boring bar in a boring head on the mill.
>>2889414your mom works with wood.
