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Its a Rubbish Challenge : pricklysauce.com
In this video I introduce my new video series called 'Its a Rubbish Challenge'
My video 'Carrier Bag Charge' youtube.com/watch?v=zP5j4G7W-c0 got me thinking more about the stuff that we throw away. We all feel good that we recycle, though if you think about it, it is only rubbish in a green bin. Sure it will be re-processed and the material reused, though what if I started making things out of it instead. Wouldn't that be better to re-use instead of recycling, to give the waste a second life.
In this series I will post a new video every month on what I have made and I hope it mat inspire you to re-look at the stuff that you throw away and do the same.
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I started to grow a beard back in November also known as Movember and grew it all winter until I shaved it off during this video. I had a Mo for a whole 24 hours just for the fun of it and it really did make my wife laugh every time she looked at me!
I have no connection with them though if you have any concern or interest in men's health and would like a place for advice or if you would like to support their charity work then follow the link to the Movember Foundation movember.com or in the UK uk.movember.com
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Its a Rubbish Challenge : pricklysauce.com
In this video I introduce my new video series called 'Its a Rubbish Challenge'
My video 'Carrier Bag Charge' youtube.com/watch?v=zP5j4G7W-c0 got me thinking more about the stuff that we throw away. We all feel good that we recycle, though if you think about it, it is only rubbish in a green bin. Sure it will be re-processed and the material reused, though what if I started making things out of it instead. Wouldn't that be better to re-use instead of recycling, to give the waste a second life.
In this series I will post a new video every month on what I have made and I hope it mat inspire you to re-look at the stuff that you throw away and do the same.
Please subscribe to catch the videos as soon as they are uploaded :youtube.com/channel/UCL2soflHdZyT0PgrVxakxWA
Why not visit my website to see what I am up to with pricklysauce pricklysauce.com
Or Like my Facebook page : facebook.com/pricklysauce
I started to grow a beard back in November also known as Movember and grew it all winter until I shaved it off during this video. I had a Mo for a whole 24 hours just for the fun of it and it really did make my wife laugh every time she looked at me!
I have no connection with them though if you have any concern or interest in men's health and would like a place for advice or if you would like to support their charity work then follow the link to the Movember Foundation movember.com or in the UK uk.movember.com
Thanks for watching and I hope you will come back for more.

![Rake Key Hook Pricklysauce has a Diresta moment
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Rake Key Hook Pricklysauce has a Diresta moment!
FIrst up - I was really miffed as my camera was videoing out of focus and I thought that I had lost this project.
I really like the simplicity of the key hook and so I decided to make a quick stop animation video and hopefully you wont notice the bad focusing too much - Apologies.
This key hook wouldnt have happened if not for the maker Jimmy Diresta, check out his youtube chanel if you havnt already come across him, he is huge in the maker field and has inspired me to look again at rusty old junk metal as a gold mine for new ideas.
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This was a true moment, having removed a clients shed ready for my Scaffold Board Shed [video on its way] I found a load of rubble and old rusty metal bits of tools and pans under the floor.
It just felt right that Pricklysauce had a Direst moment!
This is nearly too easy, an old rake head, already snapped off.
Cleaned off old cement and rust, a bit of buffing up with drill wire brushes, grind the ragged snapped edge, drill two holes and screw it to a wall...
hang up your keys, screwdrivers, hammers....
Cool.
Experimenting with the music, Gigantic Illusions made especially for me by digital algorithm from Jukedeck - create your own at http:www.jukedeck.com
Jukedeck is pretty cool, choose your theme of music and mood, set the time you want and play around with a few other variables and the website generates an unique piece of music for you to download for free.
It is a little like playing at a lucky dip at a fair, you never quite know what you will get, so may take a few tries to find the right sounds.
Super cool. Thanks Jukedeck.
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![Moxon Vice - Stupid Quick Make
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Moxon Vice - Stupid Quick Make
Does the internet really need another Moxon Vice [vise for our North American friends] you know those ones that cramp to the worktop and are used for cutting dovetails and the like...the maker scene is awash with them!
Not really!...though I met a maker at Makers Cenrtral last year and he gave me the solution that I had been looking for on where to get the course threaded bars for as cheap as possible...get hold of an old weight lifting bar...cut off the ends and perfect for the Moxon Vice.
Try your recycling centre or your shed!
Huge thanks damianfreeman39 I couldnt have done it without you.
The animation took longer than project...cool to try though.
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![In between tape measure How to make Its a Rubbish Challenge
In between tape measure How to make Its a Rubbish Challenge
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Sometimes a special tool will only do!
For years I have used a couple bits of timber to measure the distance between an object as I need to do with making this shelving unit.
I need an accurate distance between the shelves to cut in a timber divider.
Using timber sticks can lead to mistakes if they move and so I decided to make a special between things measuring tool out of an old tape measure.
The In-between tape measure!
The old tape measure is usable though the spring is worn, perfect for this Rubbish Challenge.
I want this tool to also measure from the bottom of timber housings [grooves in wood that other timber like the dividers slot into] and so I use a thin scrap piece of ply to allow the in-between tape to measure right into these housings.
I allow 20mm for the housing depth as this is more than the maximum depth I would ever make for a housing.
Mark around the tape measure, cut out.
Remove the case of the tape to drill a hole in the ply where the clip fixing is.
Screw back together and fit the ply to the tape.
I took an old blunt Stanley blade and cut it square and drilled/cut a hole to fix it to the ply for a marker to take a measurement from the tape blade.
Measure the distance from the blade to the bottom of the ply, mine was spot on 100mm, and cut this distance off of the tape blade. It feels so wrong!
Cut of the tape end hook and fix it to the now shorter tape blade with a pop rivet.
The In-between tape measure will now accurately give you the measurement when used between two surfaces.
I made a template and spray painted some graphics onto the ply to make the tape look as special as its new purpose is.
Use and wonder how you ever coped before without an In-between tape measure.
Its a Rubbish Challenge is a challenge that I set myself to give the things that we throw away a new life, to make them useful or adapt them to save buying in new stuff.
I aim to upload a new video every few weeks and undoubtedly they will all be different. Some of the rubbish will be adapted with electronics, some are instruments and others are just simple.
I aim to make them all interesting and I hope they may inspire you to give it a go, take a look at your rubbish bin and make yourself something great from it.
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![Key hooks How to make
Key hooks How to make
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What to get my wife for Christmas? My creativity!
She had been asking for some hooks to hang up keys...for at least two years, though I had skills to learn to make it.
Lots of new techniques for me in this sweet little project.
I wanted to try bashing some metal and decided to use some steel wire nails [50mm long] to make these key hooks.
0:00 Cut off the head of the nails, I hammered them into a piece of timber to help in doing this. Make sure you keep these.
0:09 I used an old sledge hammer head as an anvil and took it all outside
0:14 Light up a propane blowtorch and heated up the nail heads until red hot.
0:22 Bash flat with a nice heavy hammer.
0:31 Heat up the cut ends of the wire nails and bash them flat as well.
Really satisfying.
0:44 Shape the flattened nail heads into little hearts as a little detail on the hooks.
0:55 Bend the nails to shape, I am fortunate to have a CZ metal bender which makes it easy to get consistent bends.
Clean up both the hearts and the flattened nails.
1:08 Solder the heart to the nail with plumbers solder + flux.
1:28 I took an old rusty angle bar that was being used in the garden to hold up some plants and cut off a length.
1:38 Drill two holes in each hook for fixing.
1:47 Mark equal distances along the length for the hook positions and drill a hole for fixing.
1:58 Get some steel wire pins and poke through the angle and thread on a hook.
2:02 Snip to length and hammer the end over with a ball hammer.
2:07 Align the hooks and drill through the second hole on each hook + rivet as before.
2:18 Take the timber and cut to size and give it a plane to make nice and smooth.
2:37 Drill two hidden fixing holes in the timber.
2:40 Drill two fixing holes in the bottom of the angle iron and countersink.
2:45 Spray it all with some clear lacquer.
2:50 When dry fix to the wall and...
Enjoy!
The funky music Get Back was kindly created and given free to use by Silent Partner - Available through the YouTube Create tab.
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