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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ebswift" data-source="post: 3710253" data-attributes="member: 141380">Well, more progress, all I can say is I bow to our master who did TWO in 24 hours (!).  Not sure if the scissor lifts were in the same timeframe, but I just can't imagine how, not that I wouldn't believe Adam.I couldn't access our nice band saw over the weekend, nor did I have access to some nicer angle material, so I dragged out my trusty cutoff saw and some recycled angle that already had the odd hole here and there.  My mate in the workshop was expecting me to rock up to complete cutting next week, so I got ahead a little bit.Here's my cutoff saw doing the angle mitres, it's not really recommended, but there's no way I could do a straight line with the hacksaw and no helping jig:[media=youtube]9Hn6L1WUBXk[/media]The double-mitres came together surprisingly well.  The actual riveting of this contraption was pretty stressful, riveting pieces into place, drilling out holes, drilling out the rivets so I could get to other parts and repeating.  This was due to having holes pre-done in the sheet metal, but not in the angles.  Because I was using a gnarly cutoff saw I didn't trust my drawings to go centre-punching holes from my design, there was just too much give or take on every angle part.  The sheet was precise, being done with laser.  Whilst everything ended up pretty ugly while working, the rivets hid away many sins.Finally, here's the WIP, not done yet.  The lids do fold together somewhat forcefully, so I think I need to shave off some of the material that is interfering, or option 2, drill out some rivets, and re-drill the holes with the lids positioned, I need to think about that but I'm into the evening now:[ATTACH]506328[/ATTACH]And no, it's not an advertisement for AEG, it had the heft to pull the lids down, it does show that they will fit.  When the latches come through the mail, they will obviously draw the lids together, BUT, as they are, they have to be coaxed into position and spring back out.  I doubt if the material/rivets will conform anytime soon unless I had a machine to open/close some thousands of times.I nearly didn't get the lids on, I didn't buy enough 4mm rivets which was a downer.  But as luck has it, in the dark corner of a box in my shed I found a yellowed box of new 4mm rivets, that obviously about 10 years ago I must have figured I will need for this project <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />.Work to finish is getting the lids conforming better, fitting latches after they come through the mail, and applying decals that I posted earlier.  Don't know when the latches are coming through, they're on back order, but I will work on the lid fit in the meantime.</blockquote>

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