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One Texas customer wrote me and asked “Could you drill a hole into the cubicle wall TV/Monitor mounts“.

I said sure. Of course I asked him “what are you doing?” And he told me he was making his own patio bar and my brackets were perfect except they lacked a hole he needed.

Here are his results which were amazing:

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First, the BonsenKitchen Handheld frother does fit my holder. Here is a picture of the frother in my holder:

Of all the frothers we’ve used so far (Zulay, Elementi, MilkPro) this one is the most powerful. We bought this one because the Elementi wore out. It seems like if you use these every day – which we do – they last about 6 months.

The button presses easy and the frother will “froth yo mamma”. Be prepared to spin the substance out of the cup. I have to keep from holding the button so it never gets too fast.

But so far, we like this frother the best.

Our Elementi Milk Frother gave up the ghost. So I thought I would take it apart and show you the internal construction.

Here are some key “noticings” (my new word) about the Elementi:

• Frother whisk is connected direct drive to the motor
• The top mounted button simply depresses some spring steel to make the electrical contact
• Only two screws hold it together
• It is an amazingly simple design, which is good – Occam’s razor, right?
• Not shown here is the table top stand which always has this handy unit in the way taking up counterspace.
• Consider instead, the amazing handheld frother mounting holder for cabinets from this site.

A reader wrote “I just can’t figure out how this things works. I’m pretty bad mechanically and need all the help I can get. If you can point me in the right direction I’d greatly appreciate it”.

Same with me fellow reader! I’m an electrical engineer not a mechanical!

I’m assuming you are talking about my locking kit more than anything. I think if I pass along a couple of really high level ideas in this post, you’ll have that aha-moment.

First, to really simplify the discussion, forget about locking at all.

If you put a CLOSED 2×4 bar holder on EACH side of your doors on the frame of the shed, you can slide a 2×4 into those bar holders and your doors will both stay shut nicely.

The only problem is that it is WAY TOO EASY to slide out the bar by bad actors.

So… all you have to do is keep the bar from sliding.

This is the trick…

Take ONE of the bar holders with the locking tab and from the back, fasten it to the BAR. You should do this so that you can slide the bar into the loops and the locking tab on the BAR matches up to the locking tab closed bar holder you put on the door frame.

Then on the OPEN bar holder included in the kit, you can decide if you want to use it or not. I use it to simply prop up the 2×4 bar so it doesn’t fall down when I open the shed door.

This question came in from the securebarholder mail bag.

The reader wrote “couldn’t the thieves just cut the 2 x 4, and they’re in?”.

Absolutely they could. Security is a funny thing. It is best thought of in terms of margin costs and marginal benefits.

https://overheadwatch.com/marginal-benefits-and-marginal-cost/

So, before I invented my bar holder kit for my own shed, all a bad person would have to do is to bring a crow-bar.

So for the cost of a crow-bar and maybe 10 seconds, they could get into my shed.

After my bar holder kit, they have to up their game and bring a saw. I use a hard cedar 2×4 so unless they bring an electric it is going to be hard going.

I’ve had some people say “use a steel 2×4”.

But my shed is made of wood. Bad guys can can bring a saws-all and go through my wall or door anyway. So no point in protecting the shed with a kit that goes beyond the shed’s capability anyway.

I would say the MAIN uses of the 2×4 secure bar holder kit – or the plan 2×4 bar holders are:

• Forgetting about the locking tabs, people use the open, closed, end caps, etc for:
• Bar Holder inside their houses for front door or bedroom. Many people call these door security bar brackets
• Trailer keepers – you use these to put 2×4 in to make your flatbed trailer have sides
• Removable stair hand rail holders
• I had one guy tell me his use was “secret”. 
  

Anyway, hope this helps. Great question!
Cheers,Marlan

You can use the 2×4 secure open top black bar holder as part of creating a rustic wooden door.

Check out what this customer did…