Building a Hobby glass cage, owned by Agents Lily'explorer, Lil'woop, Agent Wheeker and Agent Valentino
Needed: - 5 hobby glass sheets (for example: 2 50x50cm sheets for the sides, 3 150x150cm sheets for back, bottom and front. In the Netherlands Hobby glass is also know as plexi glass, it is not real glass, but hard plastic.
- 2 sizes (small and bigger) of corner strips (we used plastic)
- hard plastic glue
The following pictures show you what is in our cages. from bottom to top.
By the way we also have a top floor that is not really in the pictures, we'll ask slaves to write a post about that as well. The stairs in the pictures is used for getting to the top floor.
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| Our cage empty |
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| A corner, picture taken so you can see the construction of smaller and bigger strips |
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| Papers to soak up the fluids |
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| Covered with drybed (shrank a bit in the washing machine) |
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| Our improvisation brick staircase |
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| the corner House |
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| Willow 'twig' tunnel |
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| Hanging Ikea 'hay' rack |
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| Our Wooden hayrack |
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| Our webcam (yes it's upside down ;) |
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| Our netbook used for broadcasting us! |
How to make:
- First: saw the corner strips to the right lengths. The biggest corner strips go on the outside of the cage. The smaller corner strips go on the inside of the cage. (see the picture on how we sawn our strips for the corners).
- Second :decide where to put which glass panel. Set them up in a way they are supported.
- third: start glueing the strips to the panels, first do the outsides, measure the space for the front panel, a small piece of glass panel will work for that, or use a smaller side panel. DO NOT leave the front panel in while waiting for the glue to dry when you want to be able to get the front panel out! Let the strips dry.
- fourth: glue the smaller strips on the inside of the cage. Again measure the space needed for the front panel and get the panel out before the glue dries!
- Fifth: After all the glue has completely dried, this does take quite a long time, look in the desciption of the glue how long it needs. You can put the panel in, and put the cage in place.
Some points of attention:
When glueing make sure you put something beneath the glued pieces, so you do not get glue on your floor, table or whatever you have the cage on while assembling.
This cage is fairly stable, but not good to keep it in the middle of a room. A wall or two for support are very welcome. Our cage is in a corner with the back and one side supported!
Hope this was helpful, if you have any questions let us know!
Our cage was made by mom and dad.
They want to make a step by step photo instruction for the next bigger cage they are planning to make for us...
Wheekz,
Woopy, Lily, Daisy and Chico
Slave has just made a new top for her propagator using exactly the same method. For non-gardening Slaves, this is a device with a sand base and an electric heating element for raising baby plants.
ReplyDeleteIt is glued all round as she does not need to remove a panel but wants it to remain intact.
Her DIY top is not as heavy as your cage must be so it can be removed when needed to check on the contents. She is going to put a handle on either side so that it remains more stable when it is moved.
Useful stuff that Plexi glass.
Wow your home is so neat! Your slaves did a great job indeed!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhee love our cage, mom and dad liked it especially when Woopy was still a baby, cause they could see her running around too. Our old cage was a big plastic one, with a top of transparent plastic, and a bottom of blue plastic. Slaves couldn't see sleeping or baby piggies then...
ReplyDeleteThey made this when Woopy was still a baby, so it's almost 3 years old now!
When Lily and Daisy were still little, the slaves could enjoy their every move, without getting of the Couch! the coach is situated next to the cage...
Indeed very useful stuff, plexiglass! Our cage doesn't have a top. So some of us piggies like to hide in a house, tunnel or under the top floor! Ever since we have a basket upstairs with a hammock over it, we girlz love lounging there (Chico won't go up the stairs).
We only lie on top of the hammock that is downstairs, under the top floor. We do really like to have something above our heads when relaxing or taking a nap.