alright here's my rough sketch very very rough sketch of my solar oven cart I
don't really want to spend much money on it so i'm going to use all my scraps and
stuff that i have laying around i have the wheels here that i took up a 10 or a
while back and I have this scrap apply wood that is a 29 inches as wide as I'm
going to make it on the inside and 14 inches on the app on the inside this
away and then i have this stuff dug up that was for shelving in my safe this is
just I don't know where I it's just stuff I've had laying around so the only
thing I need now is I'm going to make the legs up a two by threes and probably
not going to be able to find good two by three so i'll buy some good two by fours
and cutting down and I think I have everything else I have the axle for the
wheels here i think i'm going to miter the corners so i got a warning I'm not
real good at mitering corners but I'm going to do it actually these two
corners are the only ones that are going to have to be mitered here because these
are going to go past the end of it and I'll have a solid piece of elf nail in
between them so i'll just have to miter one end maybe i can do to good miters
and then a couple of cross braces so when i'm dragging it the the legs won't
flex this is going to be the handle in down here have a couple of crosspieces
going across either n so the legs don't flex inward or outward on the inside of
this rectangle i'm going to build i'm going to put a lip at the bottom edge of
it all the way around so the plywood will set down in here on that lip
then screw it glue it stain it seal it and see if I can't keep it under you
know twenty bucks I think I can I think I have pretty much everything but we'll
know in a minute all right I'm fixing it run to the lumberyard and get me a good
to buy for that I can oh the height is going to be about I think 31 inch legs
is what I've got figured yeah okay seeing a bit up to the lumberyard let's
say I'm probably not gonna miter the corners I'm just not good at that might
ring and this is not going to be a piece of indoor furniture so I'm going to make
this strong and sturdy and I'm not as pretty I'm going for stronger joints
versus pretty joints and that's the main reason any other reason is a you know I
don't do a lot of miter joints and the only thing I have to do a miter joint on
is this and it's not anyway I'm just not really good or experienced at miter
joints I've done them before and you can doctor them up and make them look better
than they really are but I just don't want to do that on this so that's
basically what I've got here now that i'm just going to do like a little
decorative curve here and round it on end and then a doll a closet rod owl
will go through here through here and that's what you'll pick it up and move
it around by and the legs they're going to have to come up the inside and
attached to this and this just so they don't move because i am going to be
using this and dragging it around on you know lumpy bumpy yard so it's going to
have to be pretty sturdy so all right I've got all like I can get cut now
actually I can cut my little ledge that I'm going to put in there and set the
plywood on so maybe i'll go ahead and do that and
and go get some nice legs all right I'm back from the hardware store lumber yard
and uh I've got this just I just got it you know stuck laid together nothing
screwed nothing's hammered I've got this cut out now i think i'm going to make
the strips that are going to go underneath this that this plywood piece
is going to set on i'm going to cut them out and i'm going to go ahead and attach
them to the bottom edge of this and the bottom edge of that and that one this
one and get them glued and screwed and then i'm going to sand these sides
really nice because it just be easier to sand them when they're apart you know
like up under here and I'm just going to I'm not going to like put a router on
them I'm just going to smooth them up and what I really want to do is just
smooth the faces more than anything I put these ends on my belt sander right
there and then I'm just going to sand the sides nice and smooth and just kind
of knock the corners off of these okay already that's what I'm gonna do next
okay I got it all gluten screwed clamped sanded it down put it together screwed
it glued it and let that dry overnight meantime made the legs the legs are 34
and a half long by inch and three sixteenths thick
and two and five-eighths wide this was just a two-by-four that I I run through
my table saw here and square them up because you just can't find any square 2
by 4 as you can't so now on the top of all of these I'm going to knock a 45
like that so what I'm going to do is I'm going to screw them to the outside here
at there's just no way of coming up underneath this and have it enough to
screw on to so I'm going to put them on the outside and I'll cut a 45 on this
and then I'll sand it and smooth it up and Hitler it look nice so what I'm
going to do now while I've got these not mounted I'm going to sand them all up
and get my saw marks out of it and might get them screwed on I don't know yet
we'll see when i get these all sanded free will
oh well I might have gotten a little ahead of myself this is a upside down of
course and what I'm doing now is I've got to put glue in these holes and put
these plugs in over the screws and I started off I started off i'm just going
to throw something together but i decided to make it a little nicer all
right or square plumbing level I'm fixing to a hammer these in bloom in all
the way around and tell you what I'm also gonna put a like a table shelf
underneath here it's going to be slighted going this away and that's
going to help make this even sturdier I want to probably knock these uh 1 by
fours here and I've got a piece over there probably going to do one inch
strips is what I'm going to do I'll knock these all down to one inch I'll
have plenty all right let me get these plugs in and I put this thing on its
feet we can have a look all right got a little more done I've got my bracket
tree put up here for the Shelf I must put on there I think no I'm not going to
set it down yet I'm just going to let all these glue joints I think what I'll
do is uh cut my slats all these are getting cut down to about an inch and a
quarter wide and I'll just start cutting them up in the right link so let me get
after that
okay let's see do I want to screw them on now or what I got a whole bunch of
sanding on these I go to do I think I'll do that with the head come all dirty
I'll go ahead and get the sand and done and tomorrow I can sweep and then just
screw them down and stain it and put a couple of coats of polyurethane on it oh
and I'll have to do the wheels I got to put nuts on and then cut the ends off
well i got all my holes drilled to mount my little slacks here but uh I don't
want to use these number 6 by one and a quarters they're just too big because
I'm screwing into would this size and I I'm afraid it will split the wood so i
bought some number fours but i couldn't find a number for that was an inch and a
quarter and an inch an inch just does not go through this wood deep enough
that's just not enough to grab on so I am countersinking these holes by about
an eighth of an inch using a i forget what country bet that's called it's for
just what I'm doing but I got to do that then I'm going to screw these down screw
it and glue it hit this with a sander one more time oh yeah these are going to
knock these off and wherever there's glue try to sand it off and then I'm
going to start staining and color the color I'm going to use this colonial
maple
we'll see already back door well i can honestly say i don't much care for that
color I'm hoping overnight maybe it'll darken up some or maybe the poly on it
will change the color a little bit not a bit I don't like that a bit and it is
cheap stain it's the Ace Hardware brown stain and it was pretty watery already
yeah I'm gonna let that sit overnight and tomorrow is Thursday I go take my
wife to get her another test at the hospital so friday i'll get that Polly
on there friday and maybe two coats if i get started early in the morning see you
down
that is a nice little project all what about ninety percent of it was scrapped
and stuff i had laying around i'll tell you what i actually bought was brass
screws and a couple of two-by-fours to make the legs out of that was it
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