Recent content by Fatbrosracing

Been away from this site for a bit, lots of work not much time. Any way, I have 3 work benches in my shed, main one is steel frame with 1/4 steel top, I have a wooden one that was my grandfathers and before that it was a kitchen cupboard, and the most useful one is the little mobile one. I...

I'm from Australia, so the dollar value doesn't really equate, I only bought one piece new ( the front leg ) everything else I already had. A few mates give me their steel left overs, because they know I'll use it, I even search though the scrap pile at the steel shop. Once it's cleaned and...

Main frame is made of 3 x 4 with 1/4 inch wall, everything else is what ever I had laying around, which is why the upper and lower braces are a different size. Glad you like it.

Painted in hammer-finish grey and had all the parts and fasteners zinc plated. I still have to make a lower turn wheel and a rack for the anvils. Oh yeah and I'll need to learn to use it I guess, I know the basics, I just need to put the miles up on it.

The upper wheel is a cast iron dumpster wheel that I refaced and polished. Test run on a piece of aluminum scrap and all seemed well, time for paint.

The lower wheel mount I fabricated with a quick release. The riser blocks are aluminum, I'll see how they go, I may have to make them from something else. The anvil wheels were purchased complete with bearings and shaft from "Metalman Tools" here in Australia.

With the frame complete I started on the wheel components. The lower housing is trailer hitch receiver tube. The height adjuster is from an old vise and I will replace the handle with a wheel at a later date.

I have incorporated some cast iron wheels from an old floor jack in the rear, so the frame is movable.

I decided that because the frame was this large, if I made the front face flat and parallel, and if I bolted the wheel components to the frame, then I could use the frame with interchangeable tooling. A louver tool and planishing hammer are two possibilities.

I was given a partially completed wheel frame by a good friend. I decided to reshape it a bit, and although I have no use for a wheel this large, I couldn't see the point in cutting the frame down.

Here's mine, an old truck rim and some scrap steel.

Obviously it's a folder of some kind, but I can't work out what it's used for. Any help would be appreciated.

I used this old card file cabinet for a tool box for years, I put wheels on it so I could wheel out next to whatever I was working on.The little work space on top was great for carbs and dizzy's and such. I've got a real roll cab now ( which I don't seem to roll much ) I made a new top to fit on...

Mine, though the VW is now finished

Sorry, I don't have a list, this was very much a " work it out as I go " type of build. The height measurement was worked out using my elbow at right angles holding a hammer, apart from that everything else was determined by the material I had on hand and what I needed to mount. I'm glad my...