The Kitchen Drawer, The Shelf in the Cab and the New Stereo

I've been putting this one off for some time because I've never used drawer runners before.  First off I had to make the drawer itself.  This wasn't too bad.  I made the bottom out of 13mm ply and the sides out of 7mm ply, glueing and nailing all of the sides.  Because I hadn't done this before,  I made the drawer too high and couldn't get the thing into place.  A quick bit of work with the jig saw fixed that though.  I had some throuble with getting the runners straight,  but sorted that after some mucking around.  The pic below shows the finished job with the front panel I made months ago fitted in place.

The pic above shows how I had to build out the side of the draw to leave a gap. This is so that it leaves room on both sides at the top for the catches.

The pic above shows the finished job.  All looks good I think.

The next job was to build and install a shelf over the top of the dashboard to house some new speakers.  The ones in the back of the bus can't be heard from the driver's seat.  The other reason is to make a shelf for the UHF CB transceiver to go onto as well as maps, books etc.

I made the shelf out of ply and a piece or masonite that I found at the dump.  Waste no want not.  The pic below gives an idea of what it looked like when the woodwork was finished.

You can see that I have used the small metal angles inside the boxes at each end to screw it to the panel above the dashboard.

The pic below shows the shelf covered in carpet and fixed into position.  You can see the new speakers mounted in the boxes in the shelf.  The pieces of ply that the speakers are mounted on are removeable and covered in carpet separately. The black conduit running down the left side has the speaker cables and a power cable for the UHF radio in it. This has got to be fixed back out of the way into the corner near the windscreen.

The pic below is of the new stereo which was installed today.  It is a Kenwood with an Aux unput which was on special at AutoBarn for $88.00.  It has been installed with the existing speakers connected as well and it sounds really good.  A good days work.  More tomorrow.  The blank plate and the bracket are for the Yaesu FT-857 transceiver face plate.