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JPG40504 wrote:NORM is a PROTOTYPE?

We have a number of SA's on this forum.

lv2wdwrk wrote:We have a number of SA's on this forum.

Ain't ENGLISH a wonderful language? SO EXACT!:rolleyes:

BTW Only a couple! Right Mike?

How about offering her a platform shelf tied to full extension ball bearing slides. There would be enough framing on the platform in which to put the containers.

For lids, you could have corner stiles and top rails. The lids would be attached to the back top rail.

Your Sister-in-law probably saw an ad in a catalog or one of the newspapers giving her the idea that these things exist (or could be built). Like the others said, you necessarily are going to have to pry this info from her.

Guess I'm lucky, my Daughter-in-law will at least show me a picture (usually an ad) of what she wants. Showing her a cardboard mock up of what you can offer is a good idea.

charlese wrote:
Showing her a cardboard mock up of what you can offer is a good idea.

Cardboard mock up would be a lot easier than building out of scrap wood and easier to modify. Great idea Charlese, wish I had thought of it.

beeg wrote:I WISH I had a picture Chuck, that would make it so much simpler.
AND to compound the situation, she's giving it to her daughter or my niece.

You ARE Doomed!

If there is room inside an existing cabinet, you could design a pull out drawer that will hold both containers.

If there is room for an additional cabinet in her kitchen, you could design and build a whole new cabinet with a pull out drawer that will hold both containers.

You could design and build a box, styled to match her cabinets, that has casters on it so it can be moved around the kitchen easily, and has the two hole lid that Chuck was talking about.

You definitely need dimensions, or if you are to provide the trash containers along with the "double wooden cover", you need to know what the maximum dimension of the space it is to go in. Without more information, I am afraid that we can knot help much.

to build a trash container. What is a trash container? What does it hold? It could be kitchen trash. It cold be trash picked up in the yard. It could be trash generated in a wood shop. It might be recycled. It might demand a truck to carry to the dump.

Good Luck.

You could consider sketching it using a tool called Sketchup. The program is free from Google.

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beeg wrote:My Sister-In-Law wants me to build her a double wooden cover for 2 plastic kitchen trash containers.

Bob,

I don't want to pile on, but what is a "double wooden cover"?

is this something with 3 sets of hinges:
2 sets each over a hole directly over the opening of each container and then one set for the board that they are mounted to?

does this mean that every time you lift the big board up to empty the trash that both small lids will flop open? (unless the hinge axes for the small lids are perpendicular to the hinge axis for the big lid or on the opposite side if parallel)

Ivan

iclark wrote:Bob,

I don't want to pile on, but what is a "double wooden cover"?

is this something with 3 sets of hinges:
2 sets each over a hole directly over the opening of each container and then one set for the board that they are mounted to?

does this mean that every time you lift the big board up to empty the trash that both small lids will flop open? (unless the hinge axes for the small lids are perpendicular to the hinge axis for the big lid or on the opposite side if parallel)

Ivan

The 2 access lids could be hinged at the back and the top hinged in the front. Even if top is opened past vertical, the lids would fall back into normal position when the top is moved back.