Recent content by kalthans

I find I have need of a bucket organizer while I'm working in a space that's not my primary workshop. I just need to keep things readily at hand and organized without the bulk and weight of a formal tool storage system (even a plastic rolling one). Does anybody have any favorites?

one thing i'm really looking for further inspiration on is how to organize and store my clamps. right now i just have a bit of bar stock clamped to the frame as a temporary solution while i feel out other options. My table is pretty small, so i don't have a lot of room for fancy hooks and...

next up was the offset table for holding my saw. again, Duker's implementation was not only inspirational but damn near perfect, so I pretty much copied it outright. pretty genius design, Duker. it has already come in handy for a bunch of cutting.

Finally got some time to work on the table. One of the primary reasons for building the table was to have a home for my new plasma cutter. I'd rather have the welder on this table, but the bottle just wouldn't fit, so i made a little shelf for the cutter underneath. my size guestimates worked...

the top came next. i REALLY wanted to go with something beefy...like at least 3/8" or ideally 1/2"...but the lynchpin was my ability to wrestle such a thing myself. so i settled for 1/4" knowing it would serve my purpose and i could always replace it in the future (considering my base is...

ok, here's the latest. finally got a weekend off, and a ton of progress was made. i test-fit the toolbox into the frame. the blue tape was there to keep me from scratching up the finish. i had to grind down the inside of the frame a bit to give it a clearance...the tolerances were a little...

here's the top and bottom frames done: and here's the process i used to get the best alignment possible working off the floor of my garage. there was only minor deviation for the floor level, so laying down extra 2x2 stock to use as a base gave me a pretty true reference. after that it was...

thanks, Duker. I assume everyone on these threads draws inspiration from each other. Very thankful the community is so open and collaborative. Would love some input on mine when I get down to the finer details. I just wish I'd had enough space to build out a table to the scale you did. The...

thanks, ilovevocs. When you said cutting table, did you mean the plasma side or the saw side? Yes, i plan on putting a tray under the plasma table. not sure yet exactly how that's going to be finished out. would be nice to have it as a swing-up section rather than having to insert it...

ok, here's the beginning of the layout. 2x2 tubing, .25 wall. I realize now that it is horribly overbuilt for the application, but i was making my decision on my ability to telescope a smaller size tube inside the 2x2 (in this case 1.5" tubing). i checked my local resources for a thinner wall...

I've been meaning to start this build thread for some time, but am only now getting around to it. I'd been using a flimsy Northern Tool welding table for some time and needed something sturdier and truer to work with. I knew early I wanted something that had the ability to shift my vise and...

hey all...i've got a bit of a problem with my Hobart Handler 135 welder. occasionally it was just run on...and by "run on" i mean it will feed wire without the trigger being pressed. i've isolated it to somewhere in the attachment of the gun/cable assembly to the wire feed block inside the...

when my grandfather passed i went into his modest workshop to retrieve what i could. all i really wanted were his hand tools and a couple of homemade circuit testers he made with a cigar box, light bulb and some nails wrapped in electrical tape. in that lot were a goodly assortment large files...

if i were able to calibrate my choice of tools to boredom coefficient i'd be using a 3000W laser.

thanks, Jamie....it's going to have casters on it (my workspace is small and i need to be flexible), so that in and of itself will take out some misalignment. you can simply shim the caster mounts with fender washers. i was just looking to try and dial in true and square joints as much as...