Handy-men
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Handy-man (What we need to do)
Currently, the primary one thing that I (Justacat/Arnd) know we should be doing for WTH as members of the handy-man team is:
- Build Kiosk-desks
These desks will be used for all manner of purposes; mainly as a thing to stand behind for anyone handling money or food, etc. The food-counter is designed around a set of Multi-plex board with an internal frame made from 8x4CM beams stuck together with screws, etc.
A design for these desks can be found 
Note that I think we should re-think some of these dimensions; since most boards like Multiplex and MDF come in non-metric sizes. Recently, while looking for good materials for making two 4x4-feet playing boards for a game i'm involved with, I found that MDF-boards are typically 8x4-feet in size (244x144CM). By using even divisions of these type of boards we could perhaps end up making construction all that more simpler by asking the DIY shop to pre-saw these boards into usable dimensions.
I'll have a small look-see at the drawings , etc, to see how we could fix this with minimal work. Also, I think that we should look at using as few diverse materials as possible. As such , with this and the above in mind, i propose to:
- look at a small adjustment in sizes/dimensions so that we could have the 'main sawing bulk' done by the DIY shop. Some charge a smallf ee, some are free for a number of 'sawlines'. I'm sure we can get to some arrangement. (Note: Multiplex is not cheap anyway; i'm sure that with MDF they'd like a bit more ROI ;)
- Try and see if we can find out if we can do the same with the internal spars. The spars should have the horizontal parts rest onto the vertical parts as much as possible , for strength-reasons, obviously. I'm going to put some thought into that. Note that we NEED a circular saw to get anywhere on this job; there's just too much board-material to cut for a pendulum saw to work
- Use standard 90-degree 4x4*2 "L" profile with pre-drilled holes as the main to join beams together for the inner structure. I'll try and run through the numbers we'd need for single/double supported beam-joints for one kiosk-console.
That's it for now.
