been to b&q
While we were waiting for the man who could use the saw. Had a chat with the guy helping me and decided that if I chose a ratty looking sheet of plywood it would be cheaper
At some point it will be destroyed, so who cares what it looks like
Ended up with 4 sheets of 60x120cm 12mm plywood for £18
£6 cheaper than the usual price.
And weirdly if you bought the sheets ready cut they were £25 each. As opposed to buying one very big piece of plywood and gettig them to chop it into size for you - which would have been £24 without the 'tatty wood' discount.
Crazy.
It's actually £1 cheaper to buy a huge sheet of plywood, get a 120x60cm panel cut out of it and throw the remaining 3/4 away. Than it is to buy a single sheet of 120x60cm plywood.
Now if you can see the logic in that - you're stranger man than me.
And yes I know 12mm is pretty thin plywood - but once the frame is built I'll be able fairly quickly swap damaged sheets or thin sheets for thick sheets.
The proper full spec balearic targets use 25 or 30 mm I would think.
Pricewise that was actually pretty good. But too heavy to carry any real distance.
This stuff should be strong enough for tennis balls and clay balls (I'll take the orange clay balls with me for david and I to play with
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Pretty much finalised the design.
Going to make the main target fold in half for carrying and the cross pieces holding it solid with bolts under the disc to protect them.
Legs going for a sort of 'A' frame.
So straight legs coming down from each side that hold the target 1metre off the ground. And two slanting bracing pieces keeping it upright - would have been one for a proper A frame. But I figure 2 will be stronger and a lot more stable.
I'll 3d print some plastic feet that will also double as holders for cross brace timber.
I'll do that front and back. The back bracing will also be used to put weights on to prevent it toppling forward.
Everything held together with 6mm steel bolts.
And nothing longer than 120cm both for ease of loading and carrying. Longer pieces will be drilled and bolted so they'll break down into shorter pieces.
I'll take pictures as I go
The remaining wood will come from breaking down the slingfest 2008 target frames and any odds and ends from the big box of scrap in my shed.
The bolts I bought for slingfest 2008. And I'm pretty sure I've got hinges in the shed. So the only real outlay is the plywood.
The only stuff i saw that might have been nickable, uh recyclable
Was a bit too obvious and much too close to home lol
What i should have done was collect all the corrugated plastic election banner things after the election and recycled them. Use half a dozen sheets of that packed pretty tight and it'd be quite tough.
Oh well, maybe next time