Thursday, August 22, 2013

Outdoor laundry basket holder

We had been using a stool to hold the basket outside, but this was very suboptimal as the concrete isn't level and the top of the stool slippery, so the basket would fall off if you took a sock out of it. 
So I made this:


I recently bought a combo disk/belt sander and I bolted it to a bench so I didn't use the included stand. Add some 12mm MDF for the top and brace and 3mm MDF for the basket. It holds about 60 pegs. Which is good as we have about that number of pegs. All badly painted with spray paint. I had run out of primer so didn't use any. Time will tell how long this lasts out in the weather. 

The bottom pieces are scrap pine cut like a triangle to hopefully avoid polling water and rot. Thanks Mr Glue Gun for making that a painless exercise
  
Till next time

Al

5 comments:

  1. Can we add remote control wheels - or perhaps rotors. The first step to automated drying :) Wait, I think someone has done this already...

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  2. I'm concerned about the lack of automaticity, also it offers no protection from the sun and would definitely be uncomfortable to sleep with.

    Is it high enough? As self appointed by my peers ohs rep, I don't believe it is regulation height which means work will have to stop on this project until the problem is rectified. Xox

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  3. You realise you will have to do a load of washing to test it. Just ask Marissa to teach you how to use the machine, i'm sure she wont mind.

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  4. So this thing lasted well for about 2 months, the hot glue i used to construct the peg holder failed due to the hot sun softening it. The paint has faded and looks crap, and a bird landed on what was left of the peg basket and broke it. All in all a fail.

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  5. haaa, of well im sure version 2 will be a success.

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