Vegas Chad
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Every winter I always hit up Target when they put their medium plastic tubs on sale for $4 bucks to make some more baby tubs. I have quite a few small screen cages however a whole baby tub set runs me about $10 where as a screen cage is at least $30. When I build 10 or so at a time that $20+ savings per unit really adds up! As I was making a bunch I thought I would do a little ‘how to’ on them. They are VERY simply to make. All you need is a plastic tote of your preferred size, a box knife, hot glue gun and some screen.
Take the lid off of the tub and using your razor knife cut out the center of the lid leaving the outside edge with the locking lip in place. Once you are done with this go ahead and plug in your glue gun so it has time to warm up.
Next take out your screen and again with your knife cut out a square big enough to fill the void leaving enough overlap so that you will be able to glue it into place.
Once you have it cut to the necessary size place the screen about where it needs to go. Now take your hot glue gun and run a bead of hot glue on the long side of the lid, place the screen on the bead and push the screen down into the glue, depending on how tough your fingers are you can do this by hand or you can use some sort of tool.
Now do the opposite side the same way, make sure when you set the screen into the glue that you pull the screen taught to reduce and sag or waves in the screen.
Glue both of the ends and again pull them taught.
And presto, you have yourself a baby chameleon tub! For $4 and some ol’ glue sticks and screen that you probably have lying around.
You can also screen the sides of the tub using the same methods as above however for how I set up my tubs it behooves me to leave them solid. It’s also important to note to choose a tub that has opaque sides.
This is the first half using $4 of the $10, $6 part two below.
Take the lid off of the tub and using your razor knife cut out the center of the lid leaving the outside edge with the locking lip in place. Once you are done with this go ahead and plug in your glue gun so it has time to warm up.
Next take out your screen and again with your knife cut out a square big enough to fill the void leaving enough overlap so that you will be able to glue it into place.
Once you have it cut to the necessary size place the screen about where it needs to go. Now take your hot glue gun and run a bead of hot glue on the long side of the lid, place the screen on the bead and push the screen down into the glue, depending on how tough your fingers are you can do this by hand or you can use some sort of tool.
Now do the opposite side the same way, make sure when you set the screen into the glue that you pull the screen taught to reduce and sag or waves in the screen.
Glue both of the ends and again pull them taught.
And presto, you have yourself a baby chameleon tub! For $4 and some ol’ glue sticks and screen that you probably have lying around.
You can also screen the sides of the tub using the same methods as above however for how I set up my tubs it behooves me to leave them solid. It’s also important to note to choose a tub that has opaque sides.
This is the first half using $4 of the $10, $6 part two below.
