Tag: Recycle

  • JOIN OUR TEAM

    JOIN OUR TEAM

    Wanaka Community Workshop is seeking a hands-on, practical person with knowledge and experience in using woodworking machinery and power tools.

    We need someone for 6 – 8 hours on a Saturday to:

    • Supervise open workshop sessions
    • Oversee the safe use of tools and machinery
    • Carry out regular checks on equipment
    • Run basic tool training sessions for members
    • Open the Tool Library

    If you are skilled with tools, enjoy sharing knowledge, and want to support a thriving community initiative, we’d love to hear from you!

    Consistency is important to us to enable the Workshop to be open to members on a very regular basis.

    This is a paid role for a trial period until the end of the year. If successful and it proves worthwhile to the WCW community, it will continue next year.

    To express interest or find out more, please contact the Operations Manager:

    Email: [email protected]

  • Furoshiki Fabric Gift Wrapping Workshop – Christmas 2023

    Furoshiki Fabric Gift Wrapping Workshop – Christmas 2023

    Come along to Fabricate for a Furoshiki fabric gift wrapping workshop, just in time for Christmas! You can wrap anything using just a bit of fabric. Best part is you can use the fabric over and over again. No sellotape or ribbons required.. 

    • Fabricate, 15 Gordon Road, Wanaka 
    • 13th December 6pm – 8pm 
    • Cost $25

    All proceeds donated to Wānaka Community Networks/LINK for the community Xmas hampers they make up for those who are finding the end of year a little difficult. 

     Materials provided by the amazing team at @wanakawastebusters, or purchase fabric from Fabricate at $5 per metre and bring your own! 

    We will show you how to wrap all sorts of gifts including wine bottles, odd shaped gifts and larger items like kids bikes! No sewing required! Bring along a friend for some Xmas cheer, a few giggles and discover the incredible space that is Fabricate. 

    There’s limited spaces so be in quick. Email [email protected] or drop into the Revology store on Helwick St to reserve your spot.

  • Cup Library for Meditation Event at the Wānaka Recreation Centre

    Cup Library for Meditation Event at the Wānaka Recreation Centre

    To combat single use coffee cups Maria asked us to make up a Cup Library where clean cups (in this case sourced from Wastebusters Wānaka) could be hung up for use at gatherings, the idea is the dirty cups are put back in crates on the floor then cleaned and put back on the board.

    This uses some pallet type wood and we used old aluminum tube from mountaineering tents to make the pegs. The legs can be removed with 4 hand wound bolts so the whole thing can fit in a hatchback with the seats down.

    Update: Maria had this to report “Thank you so much for your efforts building and delivering the mug library To our event at the WRC! It’s been a huge success. Wastebusters delivered the mugs and DISHrupt are washing them each day.”

  • School Holiday Programme visits the Workshop again

    School Holiday Programme visits the Workshop again

    We were lucky to have a beautiful sunny day during the school holidays for the QLDC Sport and Recreation’s Wānaka-based holiday programme visit in September. Everyone went home with a toolbox they’d made themselves and some hug smiles.

    Thanks to Allan, Taj, Alan and Barrie for all the mahi cutting the parts, making the nailing jigs and being there on the day. Also to Tegan for organising. It’s encouraging to see our nations young builders honing their, already quite impressive, hammering skills.

  • Spinning the Wheel of Fortune

    Spinning the Wheel of Fortune

    A quick project we built over the last week is a Wheel of Fortune raffle wheel for Volunteer South.

    The excellent Pukka Signs printed up the graphic and applied it to a 1m disk of ACM. ACM is quite good for this sort of thing, stable and easy to cut.

    We used some scrap of that interesting thermally treated timber for the mast, recycled alpine tent pole for the pins and repurposed timber for the base. The clacker, made by Charlie, is an offcut of hardwood deck and the clacker retainer shock cord from the tent poles.

    Using the drill press we made some really cool washer/supports from the 6mm acrylic retail dividers that Allan came across which we affixed to the ACM on both sides to prevent wear over time.

    And here it is finished ..

  • A better dog house

    A better dog house

    Wastebusters is a Wanaka icon.

    A place where items unwanted by some are purchased for re-use by others. Every now and then one can find a treasure – exactly what you are looking for.

    An example recently was a dog kennel – picked up at Wastebusters for a new pet.

    All that was needed was some repairs and a dog run.

    Last week the team from the MenShed worked on the project.

    Using recycled materials and a bit of sweat equity the kennel & run is now complete – a great home for a lucky dog.