Dan.gerous 2,696 #51 Posted July 18, 2020 (edited) Today's repurpose project... Eldest daughter has a flock of 9 budgies that live in small cage when not roaming about her room. She needed a bigger cage so they can have a bit more room during lockdown hours. This morning a free wardrobe showed up in Edinburgh, so we jumped in the van and did a quick three hour drive to bring it home. Popped out the door centres and replaced them with welded wire, she now has a cage about four times bigger. Making it more interesting for the budgies is now her project, I have a thousand other things to do! Edited July 18, 2020 by Dan.gerous 7 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
formariz 11,849 #52 Posted July 21, 2020 Since I always seem to have old garden tools around such as pitch forks without handles repurposed one of them as an organizer for hammers and hatchets. Used miscellaneous other left over metals to complete it. 3 4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Achto 26,505 #53 Posted July 21, 2020 You guys all have some great repurposed items!!! Keep em comin', I'm sure that I'm not the only one picking up ideas here. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 62,975 #54 Posted July 21, 2020 21 minutes ago, Achto said: You guys all have some great repurposed items!!! Keep em comin', I'm sure that I'm not the only one picking up ideas here. Agreed. Awesome thread idea. Really cool stuff in here. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dan.gerous 2,696 #55 Posted July 21, 2020 Found this on the fence line of our house. Should be fine with a squirt of WD-40. 1 5 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stormin 9,975 #56 Posted July 22, 2020 A few days in an E-tank should clean up that. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dan.gerous 2,696 #57 Posted July 22, 2020 On 6/25/2020 at 5:19 PM, Stormin said: Interesting topic this. Some brilliant ideas, but there's no way I'm letting Carol see it. She gets enough ideas as it is and it's me who has to sort them. I know your pain, my list of jobs just gets longer and longer - I have to book in a day to do my own stuff and the wheelhorses have barely been touched! 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 62,975 #58 Posted July 22, 2020 56 minutes ago, Dan.gerous said: I know your pain, my list of jobs just gets longer and longer - I have to book in a day to do my own stuff and the wheelhorses have barely been touched! Make the horse an integral necessary part of some jobs. NEED the horse. Moves it to the top of the list because all other "to-dos" can't be done without it. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dan.gerous 2,696 #59 Posted July 22, 2020 37 minutes ago, ebinmaine said: Make the horse an integral necessary part of some jobs. NEED the horse. Moves it to the top of the list because all other "to-dos" can't be done without it. Good advice, I do seem to involve them in a lot of jobs! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cschannuth 3,795 #60 Posted July 22, 2020 I turned a couple old machine shop work tables in to end tables for the basement. 5 6 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 62,975 #61 Posted July 22, 2020 Beautiful work there! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dan.gerous 2,696 #62 Posted July 22, 2020 Got bullied into sticking things into the new budgie cage. The new inhabitants are a bit reluctant to move though. 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dan.gerous 2,696 #63 Posted July 22, 2020 They finally moved in, my wife Marie went up and laid down the law as they wouldn't leave the old house. Even a budgie listens sometimes! 9 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 62,975 #64 Posted July 22, 2020 7 minutes ago, Dan.gerous said: wife Marie went up and laid down the law as they wouldn't leave the old house. Even a budgie listens sometimes You shoulda got video of that... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
formariz 11,849 #65 Posted July 27, 2020 I have literally hundreds of items repurposed from something else. Nothing here goes to waste. Gourd repurposed as a liquid container. It is strong and leak free. Another smaller gourd repurposed as a funnel to fill large one. Spoon carved from a piece of firewood that had a knot already conducive to that shape. Tray made from a pine scrap. 1 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
formariz 11,849 #66 Posted July 27, 2020 I see beauty and purpose in many otherwise discarded items such as in interesting pieces of firewood and branches. 4 3 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dan.gerous 2,696 #67 Posted March 15, 2021 Lately making things out of coffee cups had been passing my time onboard the ship. This is EVA from WALL-E, she fully articulates and you can drink out of the cup. Have brought a load of card for similar projects as they make less mess in my cabin than doing woodwork! 1 2 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dan.gerous 2,696 #68 Posted March 15, 2021 This is my personal favourite. I brought a huge teapot for the ship as there is a group of us that like drinking tea. It's revolutionised our social life onboard and at times the messroom has the buzz of a pub - a far cry from when I first started and everybody hid in cabins. Anyway, we wanted a tea cosy for the pot and a dozen people promised to knit one.... And never did. I got bored of that and was sitting there one day playing with my hard hat when an idea formed - so simple, elegant and entirely appropriate. The stickers are home made and just nonsense to make it look cooler. It's been popular, and I have had to make several more for "clients"! There is also a pile of hard hats with holes in that were the wrong shape for the pot, and a lot of guys wondering what happened to their hats..... 2 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 62,975 #69 Posted March 15, 2021 7 minutes ago, Dan.gerous said: tea cosy I love it! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dan.gerous 2,696 #70 Posted March 15, 2021 (edited) 13 minutes ago, ebinmaine said: I love it! The coffee cup in the picture is also a stupid project. I changed the company logo so that it has an extra arm with a cup and saucer in it and renamed the company "Northdrink Beverages" instead of "Northlink Ferries". Its so subtle that nobody notices unless I point it out Edited March 15, 2021 by Dan.gerous 2 4 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
D_Mac 8,214 #71 Posted March 15, 2021 (edited) Old tool box and a bunch of wrenches I got real cheap at an auction. Turned them into a bird feeder. Took a pedal car with custom paint job turned it into a real cool baby stroller. Welded a big castor wheel under the front end to lift the front wheels about 1/2 inch off the ground. Hacked up a car seat to fit in. Made the handle bars. Made the front bumper to hide the castor wheel. Steers like a shopping cart. Another head turner at the car shows. Edited March 15, 2021 by D_Mac 6 3 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ohiofarmer 3,156 #72 Posted March 17, 2021 (edited) One time an internal brass screw that held a main jet needle into a one hundred dollar motorcycle carb diaphragm came loose and hammered its threads to m ush. It came to me a few days later that a bit of vinyl hose with a tiny set screw as an expanding plug would indeed retain the jet needle just as well as the original threaded fastener.. Still working today.. And saved me a Franklin Also I repurpose coffee stir straws by taping them to spray cans on carb cleaner and I insert the nozzle straws original to the can into my free straw holder Edited March 17, 2021 by ohiofarmer 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 62,975 #73 Posted March 17, 2021 5 hours ago, ohiofarmer said: Also I repurpose coffee stir straws by taping them to spray cans on carb cleaner and I insert the nozzle straws original to the can into my free straw holder @JCM Hey buddy now you know where to keep all your straws that my Straw Distribution Department gives you... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 59,570 #74 Posted March 17, 2021 This used to be a box I built for the cement floor in our old basement. It was for the litter of puppies we had. Just some deck boards mostly ripped on the highest setting on the table saw, then chiseled apart from there. After the puppies moved on, it became a plant stand. It’s slightly rickety and moves about, but doesn’t get jostled much and serves it’s purpose. The splits seem to give it a unique look, so I left them! 9 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bc.gold 3,399 #75 Posted March 17, 2021 On 6/25/2020 at 10:56 AM, bcgold said: Pat has a collection of ticket holders stashed away somewhere. The first couple she found inside what was used as the office at old grain elevators. Some of them have really neat ornamental work on the casting. For the longest time she had one of her ticket holders stuck to the side of the metal filing cabinet with a magnet removed from a microwave magnetron. But I see now that she has removed it, served its purpose when we were doing eBay sales. Pat's meager collection of bill hooks. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
