Innehållsförteckning för No 96 May - June 2021 från The Shed

We have a great tale in this issue of The Shed about some sheddie twin brothers, both great engineers with a rural upbringing and both avid car collectors. Pictured here are Bill and Bob Turnbull — see if you feel the same as I do. I recall so many of these types of guys when I was growing up. You would see them around or come across these older blokes who loved cars and could do just about anything in their sheds to keep them going or to restore them. Something busted? No worries: fix it. Something missing? No worries: make it. A curly issue? No worries: stick with it and think it out till the answer comes, no worries. These sheddies were often seen at swap meets, etc., and…

Video of Brent Sandow’s knife-making workshop In Issue No. 92 of The Shed, we featured master knife maker Brent Sandow. While we were there, Brent gave us a guided tour of his well-equipped knife-making workshop. Be prepared for workshop envy Meet the bike dude Gary Sarten, who still lives in the house where he was raised in rural Taranaki, spends much of his time repairing bikes to give to local children Installing wooden sliding doors French doors give a house much readier indoor–outdoor flow, especially when they open onto a deck. Learn ‘how to’ from a couple of building experts, including a young Stan Scott Make a scooter carrier for a camper van Owning a camper van means you can take your house on holiday with you. The downside is…

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Dear Ed., I used your article on Parkerising steel on some coil springs for a vintage motorcycle that I am restoring — they were originally Parkerised — and they came out just fine. I didn’t have a crockpot so I used a stainless steel copper-bottomed pot, which worked fine. I also used tap water as I didn’t have distilled water. For the second washing of the parts I used boiling water, which heats up the parts and they dry much quicker However, I have a couple of questions that I hope you can answer. Is it necessary to keep the mixture on the boil all the time? I did, just to make sure, but it evaporated quite quickly and I had to top it up. I also added small quantities…

May the force be with you Make life a whole lot easier for yourself with a 37-ton wood splitter that offers both horizontal and vertical splitting action with a single two-stage head. The splitter has a full-length beam, which means better ram support and weight distribution than half-beam models, and the rear folding support leg ensures stable, no-movement operation. Quality hoses, curved connections, a tough removable split-head retraction box, and a control valve with auto-return detent function, including a relief valve to safeguard the hydraulics, are just a few of the features that take this splitter to the next level. With a maximum force of a grunty 37-ton, 16gpm, two-stage, 3000psi oil pump and a quiet fourstroke Lifan 15hp, 420cc engine, you’re all set to tackle the big jobs. The…

In this special instalment of our Smart Home series, a mannequin from the early 1960s has been transformed into a Borg and then — just recently — into a guardian to take care of my home security when I am away, and … something more. The mannequin upcycling was my first and, as it turned out, a very complex vintage upcycling challenge. When I got it standing on its pedestal in my living room, I spent a couple of weeks just thinking about what to do with this ‘creature’. I had never seen how a mannequin is constructed internally, and I bet that in the following decades the technology will have changed considerably. The upcycling of this mannequin is something that involved a lot of artistic thinking on my part…

Before it relocated to higher ground due to flooding concerns, our house’s section was a bowling club. When we purchased the property in 1982, the two-storey stone clubhouse, concrete block toilets, and the high corrugated-iron fences were long gone. There remained, however, a short section of Edwardian fencing and an elaborate 36-inch-wide wrought-iron pedestrian gate at the end of some steep steps and an alleyway that had connected the bowling green to a back entrance in the next street. By the time we had returned from a planned six-month holiday and were preparing to start building our house, the gate and the imposing jarrah post to which it was attached were gone. There was no insurance on our bare section, so we didn’t report the theft of the gate and…

It is ‘Bathurst Day’ at Woodsy’s house; the Australian sun beats down on a darkened shed with the projector screening the ‘Big Race’. Just in case you can’t see the giant screen at the end of the shed, there are two more flat-screen TVs above the fridges and another in the house so those seeking a quick ‘stretch of the legs’ don’t miss any action. The youngsters who race around the yard are warned that the race cars are not play toys and the house is out of bounds. A serve of hot chips and some toy cars will keep these guys amused while the big kids are fixated on the screen. This is a repetition of a scene that has played out here each October for nearly 40 years.…

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The rise of apartments in central Auckland is generating a new kind of shed. Hackland started a couple of years ago, and is a place where people can work on projects. It has just moved into new premises at 21 Newton Road. Founders Helena Teichrib and Cameron Stewart are keen to make Hackland as much an ideas factory as a shared workspace. They have around 40 members, who pay a weekly subscription for using the two-storey space, which features a more impressive array of tools and machinery, often belonging to members, than shown in these photos. Large space for projects Downstairs is a well-equipped metal shop and a large woodworking area with thicknessers, drill presses, lathes, and a CNC machine whose bed can take a full sheet of ply. A…

A few years ago, I was invited to stay at a seaside bach. I had a great time and as a way of a thank you, I made the owners a ‘beachcomber’s lamp’, like the one I have made for this article. The design theme was to use materials, as one might imagine, that could be found along the coast. The light source is a 12V automotive LED festoon commonly used as an interior courtesy light. The LED is mounted in a festoon holder, making it a snap should the LED ever require replacement. These types of lights range in size and brightness, as do paua shells. I selected the size of the LED once I had my paua shell, as I could determine what I thought would be a…

New Zealand was barely out of its colonial nappies when, in the 1930s, twin brothers Bill and Bob Turnbull started primary school in a small country town in Central Otago. For early callers, the rigours of transforming our country into what at first became a British farm had been hard enough. However, the recession of the 1930s made life even more trying — and for the twins, tragically so; when they were aged just seven, their mother died. Three years later, the boys were tested further when their father, Alistair, enlisted to fight for the mother country. That he was a widower with young children allowed for dispensation, but Alistair elected to “do the right thing”. Housekeepers and an aunt substituted for the boys’ late mother. Alistair’s war ended early,…

For a very long time I’ve contemplated energy: its capture, its storage, its use, and its eventual irretrievability. Two things I’m convinced that we’ll be hearing a lot more about are ‘build energy’ (the already-used energy it took to make a house, a car, a ship, or a dam) and ‘entropy’ (the direction energy moves in at every change, usually ending in heat of too low a grade to reward collection). Almost everything we have represents expended fossil energy. I never drive over bitumen or look at a plastic tank, never glance at my petrol gauge or fuel up my chainsaw, without visualising a particular photograph from Adventure in Oil, Henry Longhurst’s history of British Petroleum. It is of the capped well-head of F7 Masjid-i-Suleiman, which, over its 15-year life,…

• Published by Haynes Publishing • Hardback • 248 pages • $46 That he wasn’t just a businessman is shown by the flood of sympathy emails, from all around the world, received by his company and museum. This is because John Haynes was the publisher of the much-loved Haynes car repair manuals. Many readers of The Shed will own examples of the 200 million sold. I counted up the Haynes manuals on my own shelves: 11. Successful from day one John Haynes: The Man Behind the Manuals tells his story from a childhood on tea plantations in Sri Lanka (known then as Ceylon) managed by his father, his time as a boarder at an English public school (crucial to his later career), his experiences as an officer in the RAF,…