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From Forgotten Skills to a Successful DIY Project: Building My Own Wooden Extension Box.

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It is always good when you want to try something you've learned for so long and you get to discover that most of these things are things you can still do, but because you are not chanced to do them every day, it might seem hard. Today I will be sharing my DIY work that I did for one of my friends, and the DIY work is building a natural extension box, or let me see a wooden extension box. So to start with, I got a call from my friend telling me about how he has been having issues with his extension box, so I suggested to him based on what he has been using the extension box. So I told him to go for a wooden extension box that we serve in more, and it will be easier for him to do most of the things he has been doing.

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So I have an estimate of the things you've been needing, and here are the things I got that I used for the DIY work. Wire (15 meters long), a soldering iron, a patress of double phase, a double-faced 13 amp socket, and some order tools like this screwdriver plier to make the wok easier and less stressful for me to do. So now I started the work by getting the wooden board from the carpenter that did it, and also the sockets are kept safely.

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When I started working on the wooden board, I noticed that I would need to make some holes in the plastic patress so that I can be able to pass the wire through each socket and to run the wires into the socket easily, so I made use of the soldering iron to bore holes into the plastic to make it easy to pass wires in it. At first, after boring the holes, I made the first socket, and it was giving me the feeling that it was not going to work because I had done something like this before when I was still young, and it ended up that everything got burned due to a simple mistake, so I was afraid to repeat the same thing.

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So after making careful connections to all the channels, I pass the wire through each socket, ensuring that everything I am doing is clean so that when I give it to the owner, it can be seen and appreciated. After I was done fixing the socket on the board, I fixed a 15 amp plug on the wire so that it can be strong and supply proper current.

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Then I took it to a source of light and plugged it in, and it eventually came up, and I was happy I didn't get everything burnt this time. I feel so proud of myself, and I had to reach out to the owner to make them see that it is not ready for use. Although I was not paid for the service, I was still happy I did that. So, now I can boldly say I have been able to create a solid wooden socket that works fine after a long time of now doing my DIY duty.

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