Thread: Wet locker

Use epoxy and touch it up once a year as required to keep up with dings and dents.

Linseed and other oils doesn't protect from much. Wash it out with bleach occasionally to control mold spores. Consider it part of the preventive maintenance program for the truck, along with oil changes and hose checks.

Don't paint the epoxy, so you can see when an issue has risen, which will likely be a darkening area, stain etc.

Thanks Paul. That was Plan A.
It's not totally off the table. However, I'm the only member of the brigade who uses epoxy.
It's not the sort of thing the brigade can buy in the miniscule quantities needed, let
alone get enough non-users to understand & use it effectively once in every year or three.

I have only got a year or so left in me there, so am looking for either a near no-maintenance,
long life preservative, or something within normal household knowledge for after I've left.
It may be that the best option is simply a soak coat of borax & glycol or decking preserver.
It will never wash out - just occasionally get a bit wet and/or humid. And they are low
toxicity compared with the normal combustion products people get on their gloves
& other fittings.

The ideal of course would be to build the whole shebang in 3mm aluminium like the
rest of the locker structure, but none of us are tooled to do that. Best quote we had in
ally was over $1K, whereas we can do it in ply for $200 or less. (The shelves are part A.
Part B is a swinging panel loaded with about 40lb of couplings, adaptors, tools &
nozzles.)

cheers
AJ

p.s. - "flew" around Florida the other night in Google Earth. That is some seriously flat
land-scape you have around there !

In the end, I just epoxied it... pics attached
Took too many hours. The door & shelf unit were not complex.
The Complex parts were:

• access priorities - which items are instant-access, which items less urgent
• how to bring two heavy items off the top shelf where they were all-but-unreachable by short people,
• safety issues and functionality operating the loaded door at up to 30deg roll & 45deg pitch (>22kg),
• fitting the damn bits into a restricted space having regard to weight metacentre of the whole (heavy items low & to the hinge side).
• reinforcing the existing locker frame to take the weight.

It all had to be worked on at home but test fitting done 5 miles away at the fire station.
Only thing remaining is to fit a gas strut to the top hinge corner.

Can you come around and do my tool cabinet AJ?

You need this bloke.
He's long dead, but his tool cabinet deserves preserving.
Forever.
Finest example of a tool chest. [VIDEO]

Originally Posted by b.o.a.t.

You need this bloke.
He's long dead, but his tool cabinet deserves preserving.
Forever.
Finest example of a tool chest. [VIDEO]

Yep got a pic as my screen saver for inspiration, hasn't worked yet.