{"id":13080,"date":"2020-07-12T21:38:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T20:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=13080"},"modified":"2020-07-14T22:00:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T21:00:41","slug":"daily_2006_-_i_built_a_thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/07\/12\/daily_2006_-_i_built_a_thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2006 &#8211; I built a thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2006_storage_1.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nToday I built a storage thing for our garden tools &#8211; rakes, spades, apple pickers etc. The tools are now contained and supported, and grabbing one no longer makes the others fall down. A &#8220;someday&#8221; project I can cross off my list now!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s functional and solid, but a closer look shows it&#8217;s a clumsy thing. I forgot to take the offset of the vertical pieces into account when measuring and cutting the top pieces, so the top pieces are 1 cm too short at each end.<\/p>\n<p>And all the other pieces (that are the right length!) went wonky when I screwed them together. I think it&#8217;s because the holes I drilled were not exactly at 90&deg; so each piece was pulled slightly askew. We have no proper workbench and definitely no drill press.<\/p>\n<p>For this project it doesn&#8217;t really matter much. This thing will stand in the basement where I won&#8217;t see it very much. It solves the problem I want it to solve, and it is solid and stable.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll be making a drill jig when I next want to build something.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2006_storage_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I built a storage thing for our garden tools &#8211; rakes, spades, apple pickers etc. The tools are now contained and supported, and grabbing one no longer makes the others fall down. A &#8220;someday&#8221; project I can cross off my list now! It&#8217;s functional and solid, but a closer look shows it&#8217;s a clumsy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13080"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13087,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13080\/revisions\/13087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}