Fig. 18: there were too many jokes with "lay" and "pipe" for me to insert all of them here.

It's the return of the oh, wait, no way, you're kidding smol pipe from earlier indeed, and that's exactly who; with surprising elegance, no rogue zipties sticking out, and the paint on all the pipes gets short work done of with a splash of acetone.

And, with that, the drawer is truly done. But a bodge would not truly be a bodge without feature creep, and the first feature that crept into my head was a grate on the side to hang things off of.
Usually, this'd be a nightmare to make, with either (a) assembling some weird tiny wood frame or (b) drilling even holes in sheet metal/board, but thanks to my thriftiness detrimental tendency to collect things that might be even slightly remotely useful…

Fig. 19: you know what they say: never throw anything away, and you might end up on TV one day, for one reason or t'other.

I had a some steel left over from a dead home theater (funnily enough, that same system also contained a half-kilogram heatsink, it's a sight to behold).
As for coupling them, the simplest non-ugly solution was to just solder them together:

Fig. 20: easy as embedded software: works beautifully up until it doesn't, and then it's a nightmare to fix.

The first two attempts consisted of vicing the deep end of the smaller piece then "gently" pushing the other one down, ensuring no cold joints.
Desoite that, though, they fell apart under even tiny amounts of torque, so I decided that that's exactly what's needed to make it work: the final solution ended up being two nuts being viced in, bolts slowly being driven thereinto, clamping the plates with the hot lead between them, which works to this day.

Now, the only thing left to do with this is mount it…

Fig. 21: it's supposed to be the soldier hanger, that never blows its composure construxion, even if it means carrying the weight of the whole world a couple things on its shoulders.

With, on the right, the screw I didn't quite manage to tighten all the way down, because my finger got, as mentioned previous, split right-half'n'two, and on the left a smaller screw that fits in that tiny hole:

Fig. 22: I've created a monster, 'cause nobody wants to see carpentry no more, they want 2.5mm² copper wires, I'm chopped splinters (okay, I'm not so sure of this one).

And, with that, our journey has come to an end, and naught is left but the tags, to thank you, the reader, for reading, and the final photo of our absolute monster of a creation:

Fig. 23: My (slightly misframed) son.

(Chunk four of four, got hit by size limit) #art-of-the-bodge #diy #makers #carpentry (it's a bit of a stretch, innit :v)