Some of you enjoyed the thrill of following another thread of mine regarding my redneck bimini top (arriving today!), and where we started to explore my need for a TINY toilet, because my boat's so small.
Well, she ain't gonna win no beauty contests, but here she is, made out of a 3-gallon Rubbermaid Roughneck tub. A Coke can is shown to relay the size/scale:
1) The wooden seat is two pieces of thin ply I had lying around, laminated together for strength. Of course, any single piece of thicker lumber would do the trick.
2) I used a layout program to figure out the proper arse size. I don't KNOW what my proper arse size is, so I just made the largest oval I could which would give me enough width of wood around the edges to ensure the structural integrity of the piece when I put my fat arse on it.
I printed out this oval, cut it, and traced it onto the wood.
3) Cut the hole, sanded, and stained.
4) Transferred the oval tracing to the Rubbermaid lid and cut with a jig saw, which didn't work too well. The tracing still leaves too much plastic, so after bolting the wood to lid with washers and wingnuts, I used a NAIL CLIPPER to trim back the plastic, and just used staples to tack those frayed plastic edges on securely. I'd like to find a piece of u-channel rubber/gasket to run around the opening, but I don't want to go TOTALLY nuts with this.
As it is, my wife is ready to have my committed, and wants to kill me for buying that "Bimini" top.
Well, she ain't gonna win no beauty contests, but here she is, made out of a 3-gallon Rubbermaid Roughneck tub. A Coke can is shown to relay the size/scale:
1) The wooden seat is two pieces of thin ply I had lying around, laminated together for strength. Of course, any single piece of thicker lumber would do the trick.
2) I used a layout program to figure out the proper arse size. I don't KNOW what my proper arse size is, so I just made the largest oval I could which would give me enough width of wood around the edges to ensure the structural integrity of the piece when I put my fat arse on it.
I printed out this oval, cut it, and traced it onto the wood.
3) Cut the hole, sanded, and stained.
4) Transferred the oval tracing to the Rubbermaid lid and cut with a jig saw, which didn't work too well. The tracing still leaves too much plastic, so after bolting the wood to lid with washers and wingnuts, I used a NAIL CLIPPER to trim back the plastic, and just used staples to tack those frayed plastic edges on securely. I'd like to find a piece of u-channel rubber/gasket to run around the opening, but I don't want to go TOTALLY nuts with this.
As it is, my wife is ready to have my committed, and wants to kill me for buying that "Bimini" top.
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