Project of the Day : Winador Drawers

[shilala]

Originally Posted by awsmith4

Those look fantastic

The oak fronts are way over the top. Made the whole project, imho.
Thanks Albert!!!

[shilala]

Originally Posted by awsmith4

You should make drawer pulls from empty cigar tubes

You got me there.
How ya mean?

[rizzle]

That is the nicest "improvement" project I've seen from you yet. And there's been a few of em. Looks great man!

[krisko]

THREAD HIJACK!!!

What would be a nice DIY shelving system for my 120qt coolidor? I currently have about 15 boxes with bags of beads tossed all over and a glass of distilled water. Ideally I'd like a few trays for loose cigars but mostly just a way to add a little style and functionality to the cooler.

[shilala]

Originally Posted by krisko

THREAD HIJACK!!!

What would be a nice DIY shelving system for my 120qt coolidor? I currently have about 15 boxes with bags of beads tossed all over and a glass of distilled water. Ideally I'd like a few trays for loose cigars but mostly just a way to add a little style and functionality to the cooler.

I'd make backboards like EMT's use. Cut handholes in each end.
Then I'd make four spacer cubes or spacer tubes for each layer.
Well, not would, but have.
That's what I do with the 120qt. I use for conditioning beads.

[jquirit]

Originally Posted by shilala

You got me there.
How ya mean?

Figure tube (tubo) -> spacer -> drawer to make a handle.. you could slide a wooden dowel into the tube, and run a small gauge wood screw through the front of the drawer, down the pre-drilled spacer, and into the dowel in the tube (all pre-drilled to ease assembly and alignment and to prevent stuff from splitting).

Or could pin it, or someother variation thereof to secure the tubo to the spacer.

[shilala]

Originally Posted by jquirit

Figure tube (tubo) -> spacer -> drawer to make a handle.. you could slide a wooden dowel into the tube, and run a small gauge wood screw through the front of the drawer, down the pre-drilled spacer, and into the dowel in the tube (all pre-drilled to ease assembly and alignment and to prevent stuff from splitting).

Or could pin it, or someother variation thereof to secure the tubo to the spacer.

I still can't envision it. Well, I can kinda.
The thing I'm looking at in my head is totally skank ghetto.
I was thinking more like a pocketed brass pull, but they're 12 bucks a crack.
I don't even think I want brass. I'd be happiest with a black plastic knob, I think.

[awsmith4]

Originally Posted by shilala

You got me there.
How ya mean?

Take an aluminum tube and 2 machine screws and run them through the tube and into the drawer. Make sure the srews are long enough to go through the face of the drawer, then leave a small space and then through the tube. It would work as a bar shaped style pull. You could use nuts and washers to adjust the position of the tube in relation to the face of each drwer. i hope this makes sense. If not maybe I can scan in a drawing.

[awsmith4]

Originally Posted by shilala

I still can't envision it. Well, I can kinda.
The thing I'm looking at in my head is totally skank ghetto.
I was thinking more like a pocketed brass pull, but they're 12 bucks a crack.
I don't even think I want brass. I'd be happiest with a black plastic knob, I think.

I see your point on the looking ghetto, but I would at least use a bar style pull in stainless or black. I'll look around and see if I have any.

[My371]

Magnificent!!!

Thanks for sharin' Scott!

They look great!!

[Bax]

Great work again

[shilala]

Kyle (Kerri's boy, he's 9) and I sorted all my singles and arranged them in the drawers.
They look great in there.
Here's a couple shots...

[shilala]

I went to Lowe's this morning and got material to put drawers in the other winador.
While I was there I look at drawer pulls. Albert is going to see if they have something laying around that I can use.
If that doesn't work out, I saw some that I like, although they're 5 bucks a crack.
I need 14 pulls. For 70 bucks, I'll stick a screw in the drawer and pull on it.
So #2 is just about ready to get on the way.
I have already thought of a number of refinements I can make along the way, so this should go far smoother than the first set of drawers.

[skibumdc]

Shilala,
Did you have to worry about the cooling lines when screwing into the inside of the fridge?
Or since these are thermoelectric are there no cooling lines lime a normal refrigerator?

[compuag]

Originally Posted by shilala

I went to Lowe's this morning and got material to put drawers in the other winador.
While I was there I look at drawer pulls. Albert is going to see if they have something laying around that I can use.
If that doesn't work out, I saw some that I like, although they're 5 bucks a crack.
I need 14 pulls. For 70 bucks, I'll stick a screw in the drawer and pull on it.
So #2 is just about ready to get on the way.
I have already thought of a number of refinements I can make along the way, so this should go far smoother than the first set of drawers.

If the drawer face is deep enough, could you use a router to create a pull on each one?