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Photomontage of parts analogous to the one from Fig. 5 standing upright in a rectangle-like fashion, left side with a wisegrip on the corner and the drawer from Fig. 6 at about mid-height, supporting a calipers, right side without drawer
Fig. 7: The frame, standing upright on its own for the first time, filling me with maternal pride.

And with that, the job is done!
Well, a drawer would preferably have things in it (like, dunno, drawers), but let's do that after some testing, i.e. mounting a 12-inch-wild parts box (pretty damn wild, considering I bought it at a French store in Poland) because that's, frankly, just a tad hard.

So, considering this very much a bodge, this comes down to stuff I have in my wardrobe(? actually very angry at English for not having a good literal "szafa" analogue), basement, and just scattered around the house en général.
And so, out the wardrobe comes some 12mm ID/16mm OD PVC piping, out the basement come zipties, and out the house come copious amounts of tea. What can one do with those? The obvious (to me) answer was "weld them" but that's probably because I have yet to manage a successful weld on a plastic :v

Photomontage of, on the left, a yellowish pipe, slightly scorched at the end, to the scorching welded a piece of transparent-white plastic, clearly cut off from an end of a ziptie, on the right that same implement hanging from the jaws of a wisegrip
Fig. 8: the only time I could say I smoked a fag (or, well, close enough, visually).

And that still has not changed (turns out that that PVC is not only laced with some additive that charred itself, but also isn't a good match for nylon), but it's defintely ruled out any welding (for now), so the next-obvious thing is just making a ninety-degree groove on both ends and sticking it on top of zipties' locks (not gonna hold much weight, but it doesn't need to, really).

Photomontage of, on the left, the frame from Fig. 7, with zipties tied around at the same height, on two opposing corners, locks facing in, on the right a length of pipe can be seen hanging on the aforementioned zipties by way of roughly ninety-degree grooves at the ends
Fig. 9: incredible; just… incredible engineering, Lavoisier'd be proud (also incl. my incredible file in newspaper in vice setup, pride likewise).

So, what does my dumb arse try to do next?
If you guessed "weld another piece of the pipe to this one" you're damned right.
Did it work?
Obviously not, come on, when does plastic welding work for anyone.

Anyway, next step is to add the supports going from the remaining corners. But what with, if welding didn't work?

Photomontage of, on the left, the same frame from Fig. 8, but with another piece of pipe coming from the top-left corner, held on with an analogous ziptie, and holding onto the previos piece of pipe with a generous amount of white electrical tape, on the right a piece of pipe coming in from the opposing corner, terminated with a couple layers of same electrical tape, interfacing with a small piece of wood, that then interfacing with the main pipe, roll of tape ominously on in the top-left corner of the shot
Fig. 10: you know, there are some times, when you do a stupid solution and it works, where you think to yourself "this is just dumb", but this ain't one of them.

Electrical tape. Obviously it's fucking electrical tape.
But, you know it, works…

Same frame from Fig. 10, with all corners mounted with and parts box, cartouche, and wrench(?) thereatop
Fig. 11: you can't even see how badly this is bodged from here!

And quite goodly at that.

Now, the next logical part would be the drawers, but those turn out to require thinking, so let's do the top instead.
I don't've any flat wood(ish) parts big enough, so the next-best thing (and quite better, due to flood-resistance) is a piece of big ceramic bathroom tile I nicked (free of charge) when they were throwing them out a storehouse.

Upside-down frame from Fig. 11 laid on upside-down tile, swirly line patterning visible, inside the frame lays an angle grinder wheel labeled "Diamond disc turbo", outside, a constant distance from the frame, a line drawn on the underside of the tile
Fig. 12: you know the old design mantra "it's better when you turn it upside-down"? It was, but less practical, so let's stick with it being right-up.

So another trip to Green Homeless Deathspot Equivalent™ to get the DIAMOND TURBO DISC OF DEATH and liberal application of an angle-grinder later…

(Chunk two of four, got hit by size limit) #art-of-the-bodge #diy #makers #carpentry

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