Post your "Re-purpose" suggestions here!

[brats.n.harleys]

Hey Brats n Harleys is there only one opening in the tank you used for your decent drier?

I have an old "Scott" air tank that I would like to do the same thing with.
Any type of a more detailed description would be great!
You can pm me if thats better.

Thanks
Steve

No there's 2. In the pic, the yellow line in the back is from the compressor to the bottom of the tank, through all the Dessicant and out through the top.
And I got the dessicant from hf. It comes in 5 lb boxes for about 5$ a piece. I just emptied the tank and dried it all out in the oven and then on a tray for 3 days. Good as new now

 

[Concrete B]

Jack, are you not worried about keeping metal outside?

 

[Jack Olsen]

It's pretty much my only option. I keep a tarp over it. And this is Southern California, where it stays pretty dry. But I'd like to add a little roof extension along that wall, eventually.

 

[murph64]

The ever popular brake drum into a vice/grinder stand, and the bottom of a rollaway into a welder cart...

 

[Concrete B]

It's pretty much my only option. I keep a tarp over it. And this is Southern California, where it stays pretty dry. But I'd like to add a little roof extension along that wall, eventually.

I built a rack on the interior wall of my garage for my steel, but after some more collecting of tools, I kinda want that space back. I have considered an exterior rack (under the eve of my garage, it's built into an embankment and it's about 3ft tall there). My other choice is a vertical rack, but I'm not convinced it will take up any less room, and I have a few pieces longer than 8ft, which means my rack HAS to go in one specific spot to accomodate, which is not ideal. I have struggled with his for quite some time.

 

[sberry]

Shelves from mobile home beams, tire tub, slide hammer. The tire tub was drops from the chop saw bench project, kind of whipped it up as an after thought. The welder trailer was Ford F150 front end, indp suspension.

 

[e-tek]

Jack....you have just convinced my to buy one of those elevating tables with that video...Outstanding work....I keep laughing when the crate started to roll back a few times...


-T

Sweet vid - I laughed, I cried, I thought you where gonna kiss your *** goodbye!! Don't you own a cherry picker?

 

[e-tek]

I think you win the red green award !! I`ll be sending your duck tape trophy tomorow!

It's DUCT tape BTW -and I TOTALLY agree on the winner, this item being his greatest single work of re-purpose!!

Just who the heck came up with this new word 're-purposed'?

Kinda wondering what happened to recycled or reused... damn near everything in my shop has been recycled from some other purpose...

Maybe it was invented for you!!!

 

[Amitygravel]

Here's my welding cart. Started life as a commercial deep fat fryer. Gutted out the burner and pot and cut it to height, used the vent stack off the back and ran self tappers through both the tops lip and the sides. Still have a bunch of stainless left over for more projects.

 

[sberry]

I figured that fit this thread, one of the things I liked most was this chair frame I highlight, only thing I had to do was remove back and seat.
I field tested this machine for near a year before it went on the market so it was a pic I sent to Hobart engineering. As I recall I was trying to see how many pieces I could use from the scrap without cutting, ha

 

[Flatland Dave]

I built a two can garbage can cart from a wash tub stand and other parts. I also have an outdoor steel/wood storage rack built from hog farrowing floor supports.

 

[Boyd Who]

Here's the welding cart that I made from an old office desk...

 

[shopnut]

Here's a couple of mine...

Gas Powered Drill
Built from an old "Quick-Link" Ryobi gas trimmer head and tiller attachment. About 12 years ago, before the high-powered cordless drills were cheap, I needed to drill down through 6 or so landscaping timbers (~20") while building a retention wall down by the beach. I used the gearbox from the (pretty much useless) tiller and made an adapter (red part) to slip on the 3/4" tine shaft and allow mounting of a Jacobs chuck. Nothing stops this thing! Only one glitch though - no reverse.



"Natural" Metal Bender
Mother Nature never intended this purpose for the tree - but it works! With a need to bend some stubborn rail for my library ladder in the shop, I took a chainsaw to the oak stump and made a useful tool out of it. Of course, it still takes some muscle, but a good sturdy base is sometimes all you need. Now if I can just keep the termites away!

 

[mbatarga]

Here's a couple of mine...

Gas Powered Drill
Nothing stops this thing! Only one glitch though - no reverse.


Couldn't you move the adapter to the other side of the rotating shaft?

 

[PAToyota]

The pieces I didn't use for the rack (basically 14" steel dowel rods) ended up becoming useful for moving heavy things in and out of the bed of my Jeep.

THIS VIDEO shows how easy they make it to move a 500-pound engine in a crate.

I used the same principles to move a 2800# fixture table out of the bed of my pickup...

 

[PurdueSD]

Some steel cut-offs and some landscaping timbers I tore out and wah-la Firewood rack!

 

[littleviking]

Here's the welding cart that I made from an old office desk...

Why not put the box underneath the drawer and the bottle next to it and put some solid wood or steel on top and use it as a rolling welding table?

 

[shopnut]

Here's a couple of mine...

Gas Powered Drill
Nothing stops this thing! Only one glitch though - no reverse.


Couldn't you move the adapter to the other side of the rotating shaft?

That is certainly a possibility and it might be the next modification I make to it (thanks for the suggestion!). I need reverse gear mainly to back the bit out of deep holes so switching quickly between the two directions is a necessity. But, I think that can be accomplished with some sort of quick-disconnect feature on the red adapter. Right now it is held on with a roll pin.

The next thing I would have to overcome in reverse is the motor now running upside down (assuming the bit is drilling downward). Some trimmers have weighted fuel pickups like chainsaws allowing them to run in ANY position, but I don't think this one does, so I could just rotate the gearbox 90 degrees and that way it would be sticking out to the left or right depending on forward or reverse drilling.

Add another project to the list!

 

[Boyd Who]

Why not put the box underneath the drawer and the bottle next to it and put some solid wood or steel on top and use it as a rolling welding table?

I was actually thinking of doing something like that once I have my new shop finished. I threw that together quickly just to have something to use.

 

[bobbleheadhillbilly]

WD-40 gallon size drain pan. Beats having to work around the 5 gallon pan. Free from the trash at work and it has a built in spout.

 

[bgott]

Around the shop we end up with a lot of one gallon coolant jugs. You can cut the side open or the bottom off and they make great small drain pans and small parts and nut and bolt storage.

 

[Concrete B]

I don't have pics off hand but...
I used a craftsman bottom box for my 4x6 horizontal bandsaw base in place of the flimsy factory base. Bonus storage included.
Most laundry detergents come in large containers with spouts, great for coolant or oil for easy filling.
I scored a couple old school desks that will be tool stands soon.

 

[Lippyp]

I don't have any pictures but I just used a 1.5L plastic coke bottle with the top cut off screwed to the edge of a shelf to store my oil funnel in and catch any drips in my house in Frabce after I spent a couple of days servicing all my mowers etc, ended up with an oily funnel and nowhere to put it so 30 seconds with a knife and one screw et voila as they say. Next visit I'm gonna make another one to hold my grease gun! I also used one as a drain pan for the gearbox oil on my power scythe as my big drain pan didn't fit between the wheels.

I have an old rather beautiful cast iron stand I rescued from a dumpster in the garage at home that I intend mounting my little bench pillar drill on to make it free standing, I have a 1960's steel office cupboardin in my garage thats bolted to the wall and the door secured with a decent hasp/staple and padlock that will hold all of my power tools a bit more securely when I fit a few more shelves . My workbenchs/cupboards in my garage are a 1960's Hygena fitted kitchen that I ripped out of the house when we moved in.

You can see the stand in this old picture, and the second one is the cupboard, this was left in the house when we bought it.

 

[Rentawrench]

LippyP add some angle iron lips / welded in or pinned in those holes we can see in right rear corner of the cuboard an put thick plywood shelf

 

[Barry 2952]

I repurposed a 1951 Royal Spartanette travel trailer and made it into a car hauler and air conditioned lounge.

Here's the complete build. Not for dial-up. Bring snacks.

http://cardomain.com/ride/340096/5

 

[anyheck]

You exchanged a / for the .

http://cardomain.com/ride/340096/5

cool build.

 

[Barry 2952]

You exchanged a / for the .

http://cardomain.com/ride/340096/5

cool build.

D'oh! Fixed it.

 

[e-tek]

 

[Lippyp]

Yeah, I am intending to either bolt or rivet some angle iron runners in and ply shelves. To be fair that picture was in the middle of a turn out but tbh its just as bad if not worse now as trying to sell the house means junk keeps getting hidden in there plus its got a ride-on mower project and an unassembled playhouse for the kids stored in there. Its driving me nuts and the wife doesn't seem to understand that I need to keep the **** out of there so I can actually do some work as the mower needs to be fixed up to go over to my parents place in France in May and its currently a non runner and the deck and grass box need a fair bit of welding. It is a very small space compared to all your nice big american garages though. The only garden stuff in there is the petrol mower and I'm hoping to make enough space in the shed for that to leave soon. A big garage and extra large shed are on the shopping list for the next house.

 

[A1an]

I repurposed a 1951 Royal Spartanette travel trailer and made it into a car hauler and air conditioned lounge.

Here's the complete build. Not for dial-up. Bring snacks.

http://cardomain.com/ride/340096/5

Winner.



Great stuff in here. Very inspirational.

 

[69f100]

http://www.etsy.com/listing/50329163/iron-rake-hook-great-for-display
thought i had an origional idea when i did this afew years back, but anywho. they hold screw drivers, closed end wrenches, sockets, solder, papertowels, well just about anything.

 

[Barry 2952]

While not in my shop, I though this to be clever repurposing. These are Baldwin Brass toilet paper holders.

 

[nhmercracer]

I am soooo stealing this!

WD-40 gallon size drain pan. Beats having to work around the 5 gallon pan. Free from the trash at work and it has a built in spout.

 

[Hammerhead Racing]

I am a HUGE rebuilder of bed frame steel...My fabrication table is my favorite using only
a 3' X 8' sheet of 1/8" steel, I have for under $100 a killer welding table..With built in ground anywhere you clamp on!

 

[OldCarGuy]

While creativity is the Mother of invention. An ounce of creativity is worth a ton of statistical analysis. I save most everything,,, The old "Waste not is want not" syndrome... That was passed on to me from my father. Maybe I’m just a pack rat? But there isn’t a project that I work on that I don’t reuse something that I just knew I was saving for something...

Take my TIG welding setup... The table was made from an old discarded steel workbench. I cut it down and added a 1/2" steel plate and sides. The shelf above the table is made from the foot rest. The welder stand is made from old angle iron that I had. I used salvaged aluminum down-spouts to hold my welding rod...

The two side table extensions for my radial arm saw came from old tables I was saving. The steps were salvaged from a lumber yard that were returned because they were not to specifications...

The rolling library ladder was entirely constructed from old stuff I was saving... The ladder was from someone’s trash. I machined the rollers from an old piece of nylon that I had. The rail was made from 2" EMT that I had. Along with the pieces of angle iron, wheels, nuts and bolts..

I wasn’t about to pay the $600.00 that John Deere was asking for a sunshade for my tractor. Instead I used a golf cart cover that a local dealer took off old carts..

My 10 ton hydraulic press was made from left over steel I was saving...

 

[Joe From NY]

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I guess real men weld wearing shorts, but sissy Mary types like me wear long pants...

 

[Joe From NY]

Here is my version of the ubiquitous "propane tank turned into a pressure blaster pot" It is made from an old bed frame, wheels from my son's old scooter, some pipe left over from prior projects, plumbing fittings, and two old washing machine supply hoses. The handle to pull it along is part of my old iron railing from my old stoop. I got the deadman's switch from HF.

 

[jeepjunky]

This is mine. being a pack rat Ive collected old med bottles. Decided to put them to some use.

 

[MichaelP]

I guess real men weld wearing shorts, but sissy Mary types like me wear long pants...

...and long sleeves. I guess I'm another sissy Mary who doesn't like molten metal or UV burns on her skin.

 

[sscustom]

dammmm cool homemade things here love em all