Another reason to subscribe to The Shed

If you often wonder whether you should subscribe to The Shed magazine, this just may be the reason you have been looking for.

Why wouldn’t ya?
Here is another lucky Shed subscriber telling us how happy he is with the subscriber prize he won from Shed Issue 79, a Dremel prize pack worth $2239. 
” I would like to thank the sponsors of the Dremel tools. I am extremely appreciative that I am the recipient of the tools. To the Shed team thanks you very much also.
Regards 
Ron Booker, Hamilton “
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My shed: Going bush in town

Many guys like to retreat to a space they have created and feel comfortable in. For some, it’s a shed to tinker in and build things, for others it’s some sort of man cave where they can socialise with their mates.
Gary Were of Stratford, in Taranaki, has gone a step further. The 71-year-old year semi-retired builder and deer hunter has re-created a replica of his favourite bush hut under his urban house.
For 30 years Gary has been deer hunting in the Urewera ranges in the centre of the North Island. It’s an isolated place, where the boys get flown in by Heliseka Helicopter and spend a week each year hunting sika and sometimes red deer.

Welding: Standing to attention – lathe bench build part 2

I ordered some drawer slides of the appropriate length (350mm) and worked out the width of the slides and thus the width of the drawers. The drawer slides are rated at 45kgs. I couldn’t be sure what weight I would be likely to load but this should suffice. I elected to run with eight drawers and make the second opening in the frame a cabinet to house larger components like the four-jaw chuck. After some fiddling I settled on two drawers each of 75mmx70mmx60mm, and 50mm high, separated by 10mm.
I bought three sheets of cold rolled steel 1mm thick. This is within the limits of the panbrake and I had hoped the material would be stiff enough given that the drawer had to span over 500mm width. I broke the material down into half sheets to make it easier to handle.

The Shed magazine April/May 2025 issue 120 on sale now

On the road again – new life for old caravans
The allure of a classic caravan can be strong, and many of these gems are being lovingly restored – in fact, Beach Hop even has a prize for the best retro caravan.
In this issue, we showcase three very different caravan restorations—one by a man who owns a company that has been building caravans commercially since the 1950s and is now a household name in caravans and Motorhomes.
The second is a lovingly restored 10-footer that started off a real basket case, and the third, well, friends christened it a turd emoji when they saw the project bought by Marty and Zoe.
Their caravan was destined for their annual pilgrimage to Beach Hop, where thousands gather to show off their super-primped or lovingly restored classic vehicles and caravans