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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...

This was my first mount for the shrinker and it worked very well and it was very versatile. New tools, just required another piece of tube with a collar.

The plate for the bag, I found in the garden. It was rusty and the surface was a bit pitted to use for anything much. I cut it in half and welded one plate to the other to get the thickness. I have a good friend who is a trimmer and he made the bag for me to the size of the finished plate. A...

Like I said at the start, the only cash outlay was for the heim joints, and of course, just after I bought them a friend showed me his big box of them and said I could have used as many as I needed .... oh well

Bending an old brake pedal crossed my mind, but making one from scratch was fun and it went with the whole idea of using up some scrap steel

I was going to make the 2nd leg into a stake pocket, but I felt it would be limiting. I used the vise so I can use T-dollies and other hand-made forms. I will make a stake pocket to fit in the vise later.