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A nice winter inside job

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  Posted by punpun (U14553477) on Thursday, 23rd December 2010

  Hi all,
  Is'nt the telly rubbish tonight??
  I went back into the workshop to tidy up the wood chippings i caused early on while making a screw driver holder, (just a bit of scrap wood cut to size and sanded smooth and then the holes drilled so the screw drivers can be popped into place and then this little lot was fixed to the wall) "Im fed up with searching for screw drivers so now ive a place to put them.
  
  Do they make a sat nav for lost screw drivers???
  
  But the little job i thought may help the gardeners who are crawling up the walls because of this outside weather is this,
  
  How about making a plant pot tampering device?
  
  It's a handy little device for helping to tamper down the compost in your pot after you've sown seed's,
  
  it leaves the pot looking tidy and takes next to no time to make,
  
  All you need is a handle (one broom handle cut into 3 or4 inch bits will make plenty of these tampers)
  "Cut longer bits if you've hands like a monkey"
  
  A piece of thin ply wood or thick hardbourd,
  
  1x screw for each tamper your going to make
  
  and thats it.
  
  measure the top of each plant pot size you think your going to use, ie 3/4/5/6 OR 7inch pots .Is the normal sizes we use.
  
  I use a paint pot the same size of the tamper i want to make and just draw around the paint pot base and then cut out the circle, (a stanley knife will cut hardbourd but for plywood a scroll or a router or a hack saw will be needed)
  
  once the base is cut all you need do now is to find the centre of the circle and drill a hole big enough for your screw to fit through and screw the base to the handle and thats the job finished.
  
  If you make enough of these tampers of verious sizes to fit your mostly used pots, you'll not only save your self time but the task of tampering those seeds you just sow on the top of compost is made easier and these pot tamper's last for years
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  (Oh and it stops you from climbing the walls with nothing to do during this bad spell of weather we're getting.)

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  Posted by PenylanSue (U13901201) on Thursday, 23rd December 2010

  Hi Pun pun, I don't know about the TV being boring tonight as I've just watched a few hours of Ronnie Corbett but anyway, I digress.
  
  I have made pot tampers exactly as you described and in fact the one I like best is one that is the size of a half seed tray. The only difference to how you describe making them is that I use knobs; little drawer ones, readily available from DIY shops for a few pence. Ready to take a screw and less sawing to do.
  
  Have a good Christmas all, Sue

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  Posted by punpun (U14553477) on Thursday, 23rd December 2010

  Hi sue,
  just a quick one, (no forget that)
  just a short reply;
  
  your right ref buying the knobs, but us tight men and the OAP's would'nt dare get ready made knobs (I wish i'd thought of ready made knobs) in the first place.
  
  But if you put dowling cut offs into your half seed tray sized tamper you'll have a smashing seed sowing tamper???
  
  Merry christmas sue to you and yours.

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