It was a beautiful Fall day today so I took advantage and finished up some garage projects and also got some yard work done.
These two projects have been ongoing for a couple weeks and no even though it may look like another gas pump restoration, it's really a disguise. I've had this tall art deco style cabinet for a long time and always had the plan to paint it up and make it look like a vintage gas pump. So I finally got after it a couple weeks ago, sanding off old paint and masking off and painting the new colors.
The blue is in keeping with my aforementioned color theme for all garage cabinets but wanted the base to be black and thought the top portion would look good in white. The red pin stripe provides a clean break between white and blue.
To give it a little more gas pump realism I sourced an old real pump face plate off eBay and the Bennet logo as well as the large decal for Hot Rod Supreme brand gas. The lighted topper was an estate sale purchase and is just the right size for this cabinet. The cabinet has its share of little blemishes and I'm definitely not a professional painter but it will look vintage and pretty cool in the garage. It will be used to hold all my painting supplies.
Standing next to it is another project that has needed completion for quite awhile. A usable base for my railroad track anvil. I had helped a friend cut up some trees in his yard and so I cut myself a longer piece for this purpose. Gave the wood multiple coats of clear wood finish. Some old stuff I had to use up. I repurposed an old car wheel for the base and lag screwed that into the wood. Then gave the railcar track piece a good clean up with some grinder/flap disc polishing on the top and a good spray of rust converter to the base after some severe wire wheel action.I do have some brackets almost complete to secure the iron to the wood base but I ran out of energy to finish it today so, tomorrow it will be complete.
Cleaning that old railroad iron was no easy task. To get the top to even look this good It required a lot of time with the hand grinder and then the flap disc on a 4" grinder. In the pictures is another piece I still have that shows the before condition and then after lots of grinding and the rust converter sprayed on.
The last garage related project of the day was to mount this leg vise on my outdoor work table. The vise was pretty gunked up with dirt and grease but I gave it a scrape n scrub, drilled some holes in the steel table top and bolted it down solid. I was originally going to make a separate stand for this vise but it will prove very handy to have on this table and for outdoor work.
Haha, Good one. I'll save that idea if I ever get ready to move as my farewell to the township planner.