help with deck gratings - Page 3

Gaz · 09-04-2008

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Where do you buy those giant sized 5p pieces from?

From the "giant sized 5p pieces" shop...

peter22 · 09-04-2008

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Originally Posted by alan2525

Where do you buy those giant sized 5p pieces from?

Not sure but if I had enough of them I may visit Beesleys tool shop again!

**Bluewavestudios** · 09-04-2008

Great work there !! haha geddit !!

Regards......Mark

peter22 · 09-04-2008

Hi Mark
Your suggestion was the one that I was planning on If it Worked. which it did - very time consuming and my hands ache [arthritus] I have continued today and now have 12 holes!!!! in the grating But then "tomorrow is another day"
thanks again Peter

**Bluewavestudios** · 09-04-2008

Hi Peter,

Yes I thought it would be time consuming, some jobs always are unfortunately. I dont know if you tried clamping several strips together as you mentioned previously and then filing all your notches across each strip, would save a bit of time.

From what you have done so far looks really good and the finished item will be well worth the effort you have put in.

Regards........Mark

peter22 · 10-04-2008

HI Mark
Yes thats how I did it, 6strips in a woodworking vice to try it, scored the the lines with a craft knife then the edge of a small file went o.k. at first, but then I must have twisted the file and it cracked the lugs, so I had to take them out to glue them. Decided to assemble what I had as a trial and found by using packing between the stips it's quite easy to touch up the strips and add more, so hopefully I had'nt wasted my time and materials.
Thanks again Peter

peter22 · 14-04-2008

Hi
My thanks to all [Gaz,Richard(*2),Alan & Mark] for your help, suggestions & comments, whilst it is not perfect I can live with the grating at the moment. If I was working at the minimum wage I reckon it would have cost £80 for labour, found a U.S. model shop that sells them complete for $3.99 but it wouldn't feel the same.
Peter

alan2525 · 14-04-2008

Gratings look good to me - How many of those do you need to make though? I bet it's lots! By the time you'll have made them all you'll be a dab hand at it though!

It's funny how timeconsuming some of those little parts can be. All the effort shows on the finished model though, and where's the satisfaction of buying fittings off the shelf?

peter22 · 14-04-2008

Hi Alan
Another 2 I think, a large one about 3* the size, and I think one smaller, then I may? redo the one shown [it's not fixed at the moment just a pushfit] thanks again
Peter

alan2525 · 14-04-2008

How are you going to glue those together so the glue doesn't stain the wood and show up when they are varnished, or will you just go for such a nice fit that they don't need glue?