This one is from Mudsport but there are several suppliers
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I priced one up and figured I could live without it. Also it would look on bit new on Degsy.
An alternative was needed. The idea simmered. In need a box with a lid. I need a metal box with a lid. I need a metal box with a lid that is cheap. We started to "accidentally" make car boot sales a feature of Sunday mornings as an alternative to lying in bed. On one of these forays I came across a metal box that once contained an industrial drill. It was a bit battered, a bit rusty but it was about the right size. It also came full of bits a bobs. It was £1. The chap was selling the stuff in the box and I bought the box in true car booting style. There some good things in the £1 box. A couple of large imperial sockets which just happen to fit Degsy. Most of the other stuff went in the recycling.
I gave the box a clean out and offered up to the back door.I got in Degsy, closed the back door and offered up the box again. I got the Trangia out and had a few goes at loading cooker into the box. It all fitted and there was room for the spare spirits, matched and air rifle pellets. What I did not have was some to stop the door [the lid] flopping open. I thought of a few different ways to make the lid act as a shelf when the box was open. A couple of weeks later I walking round Rugby market with she who just be obeyed when I found the very thing. I chap was running a haberdashery stall and one of his lines was 20mm woven nylon. Imagine seat belt webbing material but only 20mm wide. I extravagantly ordered three foot [1m] of webbing. That will be 50p sir! From that moment we had to get home.
I got the drill bits out and my boxes of odd nuts, bolts and screws. I found four self tappers that were more or less the same size and style. I found four 6mm nut, bolt and washer sets. I offered up and marked the box for the position of the door braces. I drill four holes in what was the back of the box then offered the box to the door and drilled a couple of pilot holes in the door braces. Then I ran up the screws to secure the box to the door. I checked the door closed. It did.
I tried the webbing to find the best way to fit it and so that it folder away neatly. The solution found I drilled a couple of holes in the lid and a couple in the body of the box. I cut the webbing to size not forgetting to melt the cut end to stop it fraying. Then it was just a matter of bolting through the webbing and the metal of the box....Ta daaa.
It might not look like the shop version but it is self contain i.e. no gas bottle house, in keeping with my recycle reuse ethos, compliments Degsy's style, is perfectly serviceable and cost a bit of ingenuity and £1.50.
