Lesson 4 – 17/11/06

Today was an extremely productive lesson for me today. I did everything I hoped and more. Today, my plan was to drill through the thickened wood at the front of the side pieces. I did this by first planning out where I wanted to drill, then marking it out with a pencil. I wanted to drill three holes on each side, all of which were to be evenly spaced. After marking out where I wanted to drill, I made small pilot holes on each of the marked out areas. After completing this successfully, I used a larger drill to make larger holes in which pencils or crayons would fit in. This was very successful, and for the remainder of the lesson, we used my container as a pencil holder!
After completing the drilling, I worked on evening out some rough parts of my container. I used sand paper to smooth out the rough surfaces. It helped to wrap a cork block on sand paper. This speeded up the process and I was done in what seemed liked no time at all.
After this, I looked at how to connect my lid to the space in my box, so that I used the space I had to its full capability. I found a solution of using hinges, however school did not have any screws that were small enough so this weekend I am going to buy some that are small enough.
If I use a hinge to open and close the compartment, it would bounce up and down a lot, so to solve this problem I am going to use a lip so that it is still easy to shut, but shuts securely. I began to create is using the remaining wood I had left.
Next lesson, I am going to install the lip on my lid, and also use my hinges with the small screws that I am going to acquire during the weekend.