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Another job that was long overdue was to craft a couple of conduit covers. The conduit sports data cable from the house to the shed. I had sourced some sheet metal for the floodlight covers and had quite a bit left over. I was also starting to feel pretty good about my newly acquired sheet metal skills. The covers were reasonably challenging to produce as I have very limited tools for working with sheet metal. The larger cover just fitted in the bender, so a bit of luck on that front. The bender did handle the large folds, although the photos show that I used extra clamps where I could. Bunnings finally got involved in the project by way of supplying paint and rivets. The two conduit and floodlight covers cost over $60 to paint – including etch primer, plus a $10 packet of rivets ensured that Bunnings again got the lions share of the hardware budget for this project. The aluminium on the other hand cost just over $20.