Not many how-to’s on this one as I just built it out of random stuff I had lying around. The idea was for a table that could be stood one one end to throw knives at!
I don’t throw much so the top boards won’t have to be replaced too often!
Materials
5 hinges 4 boards + random timber!
Cost
Build
Not many notes you can see pretty much everything from the photos. The only thing to note is that everything is screwed in from the bottom of the table so I’m not throwing knives into screw heads.
3 boards form the top 1 board was cut up for the four legs Timber was cut for the support for when it is on end.
All the sizes and lengths weren’t planned, just guestimated as I cut but if you are interested I can measure things.
The brief is to build a shelter that keeps the worst of the weather off the bikes and maybe space to tidy up some of the random things lying around the garden that don’t as yet have a home.
My first thoughts are to make this out of scrounged pallets, that keeps it cheap an is easy to source. As such any dimensions of the shelter should be based around dimensions of the pallets that I find to make it simpler to make with less cutting and work!
Design wise my initial thoughts are to have a wooden shingle roof, this will vastly increase the weight but will improve the appearance and reduce the amount of stuff that needs to be purchased! Worth a try.
I love Geodomes! There I’ve said it, you can argue till your are blue in the face that teepee’s are more practical, yurts are more traditional or a marquee is more user firendly… none of them are as cool as a geodome! Therefore I’m going to be making one! I just need to buy my van first as there is little point in making one without being able to transport it.
(Update 2014.03.11 – I’m now doing the van up. A geodome is getting closer!)
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This is going to be a UK based dome which means that waterproofing is a greater consideration than UV blocking heating from the sun! Having said that it would be helpful if it wasn’t a complete heat trap or I’ll end up frying all the lovely guests!
Having had a quick look into this it looks as though its going to go on the back burner for now as my initial plan was to have a dome of around 2.5m radius, with various things supported by the frame itself (lighting, a swing seat and so on!). Plugging this into the dome calculator at http://www.byexample.com gives me a rough total strut length of around 172m for a 3v.
This is getting expensive as I haven’t even thought about a cover for it yet! Back to the drawing board.
How about PVC conduit instead of the galvanised steel? It would then be tougher to make the geodome as I’d now need to make star connectors instead of flattening and bending each end of the pipe.
20mm White PVC heavy gauge 75m = £16.13 + 20% 225m = £58.07
This looks much more affordable and with the bundles of tubing I may be able to increase the size of the dome! It’s not what I was originally after though so I may have to have a think on it.
