Corona Virus Projects

[JohnnyEgo]

Mostly as a convenience. The drawers are numbered in permanent market on the drawer bottoms, but it is marginally quicker for me to keep track of them as labelled. In theory, when I do final fitting they should all fit in any opening, but they will have more even gaps if they go back to the one they were primarily fitted for. My son plans to label them with the different Pokemon types when we are finished.

I did a small thing today, but it let me scratch another line off the final punchlist, so that was good. I had previously milled some tenon stock for the floating tenons, and today I cut and fit all the forward tenons.
Nothing fancy, just mark to length and cut quickly with my $15 Zona saw. That thing is remarkably useful for the money.



Just in case someone tuning in doesn't want to look through nine pages of pictures, there are holes in the ends of each of the cross pieces to accept a tenon, and a hole in the rail itself.





When I've done my part to perfectly center each mortise and align the mitered ends as best I can, everything fits where it is supposed to and looks reasonably aligned.




With everything tenoned into place, the structure is very rigid and still reasonably square, which is good. At this point, there is still not a drop of glue in this project, but it is fairly stable.


The only parts I have left to cut are the drawer guides, but it is going to take a while to taper them to the front and back supports. I might skip ahead a bit and start gluing the panels as I find free time in the next few nights.

[Irving]

No glue so far, impressive.

[Irving]

Brief contribution since I didn't take build pictures.

See this spider? She's sad.


Just look at that sad, bored, I-haven't-eaten-in-six-months-because-I-don't-like-my-cage face.


It was time that I got to execute my life long dream of gluing plexiglass together to build a better prison for this spider.

Let's get started!



Size comparison with current cage.


And done.

[arbol]

Metal, I mean plexi-glass. That spider has a good dad, lol. Looks like a Tarantula?

[JohnnyEgo]

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea (of plexi-glass)?
Ir-ving's Spi-der!

In all honesty, had you not told us that was your spider's face, I'd have thought I was looking at it's butt.

That is a nicely crafted terrarium! I have contemplated trying to weld acryllic a couple of times for different purposes, but never got around to actually doing it. How hard was it go apply and set?

Beautiful job!

[Great-Kazoo]

Nice project and tarantula. Is yours hand friendly? The ones we had were, and had no issue sitting on your shoulder.

[Duman]

What do you feed your tarantula? what's her name?

[Irving]

It's not mine, it's my daughters. My brother bought it for her birthday a few years ago. It eats crickets, when it eats, but we're going to try meal worms as well. Her name is Venture and she's a pink-toe'd tarantula. Named after Vin from Mistborn.

Welding the plexiglass is easy enough, but even with the little needle syringe it comes with, it's very easy to get the weld everywhere, then it ruins the finish on the panels. You basically hold the panel together for a minute or two, then it holds itself.

The hinges aren't installed in line with each other so there is some binding, but the wall flexes enough that it doesn't matter. The same wall flex allows the door to sag way too much as well. Were I to do it again, I think I'd put the hinges on top, OR just do a magnet in all four corners with no hinges at all. Both the hinges and magnet idea were experimental and worked okay enough.

The adults don't pay her much attention because she lives in the kid's room. However, I've seen my daughter pick her and move her around before. I didn't even know she ever handled her. I think she got cocky though because kid said the spider got snappy at her just before, and during the cage move.

My brother had the same spider growing up, and he thought it'd be a wonderful idea to buy my kid one. Thanks bro.

[Duman]

"Her name is Venture and she's a pink-toe'd tarantula." I was going to mention the pink toe-nail polish.....

[Irving]

Just like I feared, I rushed through the spider cage project and now the door won't stay shut. My daughter says she'll wake up to the door wide open and the spider just chilling inside. However, at least once so far...