Lesson 6 – 24/11/06

Today, I completed exactly what I wanted to. Last week, I feel that I was a little slow in attaching the first hinge, although I did have to do all the marking out etc... Today, I attached the other three hinges, and was extremely pleased with the results. The hinges mounted perfectly and worked really well. The lid opens and closes perfectly, and isn’t loose either. It is tight and secure and is not likely to fall off. Last week I was a little slow in securing the hinges, but today I attached them at lightening speed! Before I could screw the screws into the lid, i had to carefully mark out where to drill, and due to the delicacy of the operation, I was forced to use a hand drill, although slow, it was easily controllable and accurate making it virtually impossible to make any mistakes. After the attaching the lid, I noticed that the lid covered one of my holes in which I was going to put in a pencil. To avoid this predicament, I used a round file to file through the space which was blocking the area where I wanted to put my pencils. It was successful, as I managed to make an arched area so when the lid shut properly and the pencil was untouched. At the end of the lesson, I began to use sand paper to finalise the project, as there were still some rough edges. Also, when I shut the lid, there is a substantial gap, to fix this, I began to cut pieces of wood to fill this – of course they are paper thin to fix the problem and are unnoticeable.
Next Lesson:
· Patch Holes
· Finish Product Using Sand Paper