Home-made cabinet

[Merzbow]

My riend Dima's work offered to pay us if we built them a strong cabinet to keep their empty cans in outside. He works at a resturaunt and people allways come by and steal their empty cans (atleast $200 worth). So we accepted. They gave us $200 to buy materials and all that. We bought 3/4 plywood for the unit itself, drew out designs and blueprints in Auto CAD and then went shopping. Got some hardcore slider locks and master lock for it along with bolts and all that for ht ehinges so who ever tried to break into it wouldn't be able to take them off. Here are some pics. I think it came out awsome, and it weighs a ton so it wont get knocked over by the wind of even a car (removed).

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[Merzbow]

A sweet pic I set up Looks like it's straight outa the Craftsman mag doesn't it? Got this bad boy from my mother for Christmas. This was it's first hardcore test

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[Merzbow]

Finishing up before the fiberglass coat on the roof. Dima is on the right and our friend Alex is ont he left.

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[Merzbow]

Finished product. We used fiberglass resin on the roof to help with the rain and stuff...sounded like a good idea, not sure how it will work lol. It was actually an excuse for Dima to ge this work to buy him fiberglass so he could make his subwoofer enclosure but shhhh...

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[Merzbow]

Last one. We thought we'd need the sandbag in the bottom to weigh it down but this wood weighs a flippin ton!Removable shelves and there's an extra shelf on the top incase one somehow breaks.

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[nismo]

Lookin good. Inder

[DaddyVibeMI]

Turn out very good!

[BlueCrush]

Nice Job!

[Merzbow]

Thanks

[Pablo1669]

By empty cans do you mean beer cans, or garbage cans, or what?

[ToolGuy]

Awesome! Built like a brick poop house!

[rasermon]

Merzbow, you and your friends did a excellent job. You need to revise your print so the hinges are on the inside of the cabinet. Anyone with a screwdriver can get in. If they bring a cordless Milwaukee 28 volt, in 1 min or less your cans are on the way to 7-11.

[Ponyota]

Great job guys! I have to agree with raser on what he said to.

[Merzbow]

We thought of that. We bought heavy duty bolts and nuts instead of screws so the only way to get the hinges off is to pop the pins. The reason we didn't put the hinges on the inside is because the way the bends were in the pin holes it wouldn't be flush with the wood and would stick out.

[ToolGuy]

I got an old car alarm you can put in it too!