Bin cage plan - Page 2

**kyrilliondaemon** · 05-13-2012, 09:57 AM

Good luck! We need to start making one again soon. We have the boxes and mesh and stuff, just haven't done it yet.

Charley101 · 05-14-2012, 06:43 AM

Oo keep us updated tiger lily and would love to see pics of the finished cage

tiger_lily · 05-14-2012, 09:41 AM

Will do! I'm excited about making it now, still have some mesh left over from making our degu's cage so that shouldn't be a problem...

Charley101 · 05-14-2012, 02:47 PM

Good luck

**kyrilliondaemon** · 05-14-2012, 03:09 PM

Can I make one suggestion? Don't do the entire three tier thing in one day... We spent most of yesterday making one and are both suffering for it today lol. It'll be finished tomorrow and hopefully the blisters and achy limbs will have calmed down a bit then. We suffered making Scamp's too in the end so yeah... Learn from our mistake and take your time over a few days lol

Charley101 · 05-14-2012, 04:01 PM

Have you made another for Fwirl, Sam?

And i found if i take on too much at once, i start getting really frustrated and end up making mistakes and then get even more frustrated because i have made the mistakes

**kyrilliondaemon** · 05-14-2012, 04:08 PM

Nearly. We're fine with the amount of work to make them but piercing all the holes for mesh and cable ties and stuff has just left me sore lol. My OH did loads of sawing and stuff and he's achy too. Would've finished it last night but called it quits at about midnight in favour of getting some dinner lol

We have about 54 more holes to pierce if I remember right, hopefully the blister on my hand has cleared before I do those tomorrow lol. Then my OH has to use his penknife to get the edges of the holes smooth inside the bins. Then we add mesh before moving it through to here, setting it up and adding the tube connector so we can join it to Fwirl's cage after we managed to scrape together the 40cm length we needed on her wall lol

We're also changing the bottom box on Scamp's bin and thats adding to the work. As I've said, the work is fine, its just the pain thats not ideal lol

Would anyone want photos? I can't get them of the boxes before we touched them but thats no help anyway. I can get them before the mesh is added and before all the holes are done and stuff though. And I can get some to show the smaller boxes we use to connect them and the holes for that more easily before the bin is in use if anyone would want them.

Charley101 · 05-14-2012, 04:16 PM

Ooo photos would be good. It can show members who are thinking about making a bin cage how it is done. Always a good thing

**kyrilliondaemon** · 05-14-2012, 04:20 PM

There're loads of threads on bin cages already though. The only part thats particuarly unique is that we make them with literally a pair of penknives and some wire cutting pliers rather than other tools. That and how we connect the levels together which now I think about it I do actually want photos of

Charley101 · 05-14-2012, 04:23 PM

I think the photos will be a good idea especially if you have used basic tools as it can show people what to do