School technology Project - Fully recycled

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School technology Project - Fully recycled

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In january this year, it was time for me to begin making my GCSE technology project, and I decided to make a chest of drawers.
Being the tight person i am, i decided to create it out of as many free materials as i could get, this helped as my dad and grandad have a large woodworkshop, so therfore, i had access to the materials that i needed.
I began by using small ofcuts of plywood for the carcous of my drawers, and then, i required some plywood for the outer carcous, and as me, my dad, and my grandad, get skips of wood for free to burn, i decided to look there. I found several sheets of plywood, and used it according, i took quite allot of this ply into school, and several of the lads that i work with in tech, have decided to buy some of my wood that is left off me.
my next search at home, and at my dads workshop, began looking for screws and nails, after a good hour or so, i found enough for what i needed, all from the bottom of buckets, boxs etc. then i needed some glue, lo and behold in the workshop bin there was enough glue for what i needed inside a tub.
i then needed some formica, which is like what they put on kitchen worktops and cupboards, and i found enough usefull scraps again in my dads workshop.
the next thing that i have reclaimed was, three pot handles of which i had taken off an old wardrobe several months before, and chucked on a shelf.
the legs to my drawers are going to be made out of a length of aluminum square tubing, of which the school were going to melt down into blocks
so there you have it a fully green piece of furniture

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Where's the photo then?

Oh, and well done honey. :lol:
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erm i aint took a picture yet, but will put one on a.s.a.p.
my mother ses she wants it now to put her seeds in.

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Maybe you could go into production - until the wood runs out!

Say hello to your mum - not spoken for a while.
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yh lol, ive also made a handcart out of completly recyled stuff to, all from skips
and yh i will when i see her next
hows you anyway?

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Life's good here, soon to be busy when the tourist season starts!
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