A few months ago I had the idea to drag my old aquarium out of storage, it had been stored away after my original fish died from old age (6 years is not bad for a goldfish). The aquarium base had been a quick job that I had made out of scrap timber from an…
Some years ago I found what I thought was a very cool electric clock in an opp shop. It was 240 volt powered and had rotating numbers as opposed to the usual flip down numbers. Upon getting it home I realized that the mechanism had seized, after disassembling the little geared engine assembly and re-lubricating…
One afternoon while sitting in a park a friend of mine drew an adorable picture of the Polaroid camera that I had with me. I thought the drawing was gorgeous and unique so really wanted to frame and hang it. She is an amazingly talented artist and I highly recommend that you take a look…
I came across a set of Marantz hifi speakers while I was cleaning out the garage not long ago. I knew the deal, they were mass produced entry level speakers from the 80’s with a bubbling plastic veneer covering, expectations were low. I thought very little of them, but decided to hook them up to…
When I purchased the land rover it came with an insanely heavy milk crate full of parts. In this was an Aeroparts capstan winch which had been disassembled. Obviously this was another job for the kitchen table. After measuring up for new seals and reassembling the winch onto its freshly galvanized plate it was time…
It made sense to compliment the roof with a set of doors. I had rebuilt a set of door frames previously, oxy blackwire welding up the cracks and welding hidden corner reinforcing inside the frames. These had been galvanized and waiting patiently for me under a pile of sawdust in the basement for quite some…
After having driven the Land Rover around for quite some time, the impracticality of not having a roof started to take its toll. I would often find myself ducking into undercover car parks during summer rain showers, or dressing up in winter jackets on chilly evenings. Thus I felt it was time for the roof.…
A little while ago I decided to install a heater tap onto a Holden 161 red engine that was in a 1950’s Land Rover. After a few ebay searches I discovered that these were a rather expensive item so I decided to make one out of parts that I had access to. Unfortunately there was…
Some years a go I went searching for a small caravan that I could tow behind my Land Rover but also my little Subaru sedan and any other medium sized car that I happened to be driving at the time. I was after something small with plenty of head room which was wide enough to…
I saw a cardboard pinhole camera in a shop window on the way home one night, for some reason the thing really appealed to me. After some googling I saw the Dirkon pinhole camera and found the design to be insanely cute, however cardboard seemed insanely flimsy and in no way painful enough to construct….…