At the end of my driveway I built a bike shed. Since there is
no space to swing a big door open, I made it a rolling door. I bought
the track and wheels online (link), and welded up the door at Make.
The other welded parts are the U-channel at the top that guides the door,
which is connected with two
posts to plates that bolt into the concrete sill.
The rest is 2x4s, siding and a corrugated metal roof.
The white stuff behind the mesh is plasticore (Artisan has 4x8 sheets of this)
The back of the shed is formed by the existing wall between our property
and my neightbor's.
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It holds our two bikes (could hold three), and once you have a shed,
you can of course add shelves and stuff it full of other things.
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The design was laid out in Fusion 360.
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The lock (visible in the first picture) is a regular exterior door lock,
so it needed a housing box, and the latch plate needed a housing too. These I cut
on the plasma cutter out of sturdy sheet stock. In order to fold the boxes along
the dotted lines, I made this jig:
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I took an angle grinder, mounted a 1/8" cutoff blade and made a sled so that the blade
protruded just a bit below the shoe of the sled. With some wood and clamps for a fence, I could
grind about halfway through the sheet material, and fold it in exactly the right place, and without
hammer marks.
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