trackwelder
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I needed a stand for my grinder and went to the junk pile outside for stock.
Grinder Stand
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nissan_crawler
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Looks good. I made one much like that, but with a flywheel off an old baler. The sprocket looks neater, though.
porschedude996TT
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Wow! That ain't gonna move when you use it...
goodfellow
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There is nothing more productive than a junk pile, a good imagination, and some fab skills. Wonderful work!!
RetroJim55
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I have used car rims and axles before .
autoclassicnut
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Nice... just make sure you keep your toes away if you go to move that beast!
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trackwelder
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Hopefully I can just tilt it a little and roll it. I have one more sprocket
to use for something else.
mulepackin
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Nice work. Great use of whats on hand.
senlow
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Using the sprocket for the base is very cool.
rsanter
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that looks cool...I like it
bob
bob
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trackwelder
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The tube was 1/4" wall left over from a logsplitter I made for a friend.
We made the oil tank from a piece of it.
We made the oil tank from a piece of it.
ProGun3400
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Very cool. 
What's the sprocket off of?
What's the sprocket off of?Uncle Buck
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trackwelder
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UB is correct it is from a dozer that had been rebuilt.
Iron-Iceberg
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I think you now need a bigger grinder.
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nadogail
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Junk Pile is what the unknowing call an Unassigned Resource Storage Area. Some look at steel scrap and call it junk; to a Mechanic, those are shapes waiting for a new role.
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trackwelder
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This time last year my junk pile was bare. The scrapers came by several times a day and begged for it. We even had a guy taking tires with rims for scrap. I have one more sprocket and have been thing about a stand for a vise for outside.
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trackwelder
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If you ever up in Albany let me know I'll throw something together
for you.
for you.
Todd.Brock
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That was actually my first welding project. I took an old Ford ranger wheel, teal at that, and put a length of 1/4 in angle iron through it. Welded it all together, with a top and bottom plate, rattle canned it black and there sits the grinder....
I'll play--here's a hammer forming station I built a couple weeks ago using stuff I came across: wheel, tire and the hub form a '58 Buick; piece of round plate and $5 driveshaft from the junkyard (already out and laying on the ground for me), and a $10 piece of exhaust tubing form the scrap bin at the local muffler shop. I made my own bell-mouth die from a piece of heavy wall (3/8-inch wall) scrap tubing I picked up somewhere: ground a bevel around the end with my belt/disc grinder, set the bevel in the exhaust tubing and pressed it with my shop press.
-Brad
-Brad
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trackwelder
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Very nice there Brad. What keeps all the hammers secure? Do you have a bigger picture?
JohnK007
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Is that a Wissota grinder? Looks like the one I have at work.
Keep a look-out for an upcoming issue of Hot Rod Deluxe magazine. A step-by-step story on the build will be in it.
I used 2.5-inch stubs of 1 3/4-inch exhaust pipe. 20 of them, welded together to form a ring. The ring attaches to the pipe with 1-inch flat stock "spokes." They're canted outward to make putting the hammers in and out easier.
Painted the whole thing my favorite: Rust-oleum "high performance" red, with flat black on the table top and inside the hammer holders.
-Brad
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trackwelder
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The motorcars where a little before my time on the job. I did cut several
of them up for scrap to clean up for the "Business Train".
of them up for scrap to clean up for the "Business Train".
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trackwelder
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By the way Dan nice to see you back on
Yea I know all about those business car trips. But you should have saved those wheels. Everyone that sees my stand wants one or two. Unfortunately they are a little hard to come by now.
I keep popping in to check thing out. Thanks.
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trackwelder
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Worn track machine wheels work good to.
krooser
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I use old discs from farm equipment for bases just like that sprocket. Cheap and EZ to build.
Nice job on that piece... looks cool with the teeth....
Nice job on that piece... looks cool with the teeth....