The repurposing thread

[Reno4u2]

Bought the wheel at a auto salvage yard for a few bucks (hairline crack in one of the spokes). A little elbow grease and it makes a fine air hose reel.

 

[Bad Eye Bill]

Been looking through this thread now and then for a few days, some great stuff here, too bad a lot of pics are gone though.

Needed to use my old rarely used shop vac and found it had no suction, turns out the the bottom of the tin pail had rusted out and there was a hole about 3" in diameter in it. So.....

 

[jhn9840]

Nice repurpose on the shop vac

jhn9840
John

 

[Daveo]

Been looking through this thread now and then for a few days, some great stuff here, too bad a lot of pics are gone though.

Needed to use my old rarely used shop vac and found it had no suction, turns out the the bottom of the tin pail had rusted out and there was a hole about 3" in diameter in it. So.....

THATS AWESOME!

Get the photobuckit fix for firefox or chrome!

 

[Lee Celtic]

https://scontent-lhr3-1.**.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/24909557_364839937275260_863087423219021300_n.jpg?oh=07e4f82e916e2d3ddb0ee62514db63c1&oe=5ADE6E3B

Camdlesticks... Made two from a renault twin cam then sprayed them Gold.. put them in the living room at Christmas as a joke but it backfired and the wife actually liked them.. they are still in place on the mantle..

 

[Lee Celtic]

My son found a dead wild goat up on the mountain behind the house and brought the Horns home.. He wanted some way of mounting them so I fitted a sanding flap disc to my grinder and set about carving a skull out of a lump of pallet wood.. each horn is around 2 ' 6" long.. all they needed was cleaning out with gravel and a coat of varnish to bring out the grain..

https://scontent-lhr3-1.**.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/24852247_364839853941935_8197296920680988811_n.jpg?oh=ce9c98051649b5c9ccccd3ab75895318&oe=5AEFA316

 

[C_F]

Love the "camdlestick" idea! Nice work on the wooden skull, too.

 

[Hexen]

My son found a dead wild goat up on the mountain behind the house and brought the Horns home.. He wanted some way of mounting them so I fitted a sanding flap disc to my grinder and set about carving a skull out of a lump of pallet wood.. each horn is around 2 ' 6" long.. all they needed was cleaning out with gravel and a coat of varnish to bring out the grain..

https://scontent-lhr3-1.**.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/24852247_364839853941935_8197296920680988811_n.jpg?oh=ce9c98051649b5c9ccccd3ab75895318&oe=5AEFA316

Impressive horns and impressive carving skills!

I'm not sure what "cleaning out with gravel" means, though?

 

[Oldbear]

Old wooden kitchen cabinet into a rolling workbench and old metal kitchen cabinets into my new work bench (although it isn't done yet).

 

[Outlander]

Been looking through this thread now and then for a few days, some great stuff here, too bad a lot of pics are gone though.

Needed to use my old rarely used shop vac and found it had no suction, turns out the the bottom of the tin pail had rusted out and there was a hole about 3" in diameter in it. So.....

I turned my broken shop vac into a rolling garbage can Like your idea!

 

[Bad Eye Bill]

I turned my broken shop vac into a rolling garbage can Like your idea!

Thanks. The bucket was in sight when I discovered the rust through and thought, hey, wonder if that will fit. Latched on like it was made for it, just had to cut the hole for the inlet.

 

[bubinga]

Been looking through this thread now and then for a few days, some great stuff here, too bad a lot of pics are gone though.

Needed to use my old rarely used shop vac and found it had no suction, turns out the the bottom of the tin pail had rusted out and there was a hole about 3" in diameter in it. So.....

Yes, because people REFUSE to host here.

 

[bczygan]

Installed casters on my H press.

They had 1/2-20 threaded stems.

I had no nuts that size, so used a spare set of wheel locks that were 1/2-20.

Bill

 

[bubinga]

I picked-up a like new stainless steel medicine cabinet from the Habitat ReStore for $10 bucks......

I needed a place to put all my router bits in one place....So, I cut some MDF the size of the shelves and drilled 1/4" and 1/2" holes and voilà ....instant industrial looking router cabinet.

The "handle" is a stainless steel "robe" hook I also got at the ReStore for $2 bucks....


Mounted it on the wall with my other steel cabinets and near the router table....




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DEal !!

Can’t beat that for $10. Cabinet came out great.

I really like that.

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Thanks guys......It makes it real nice to have them all in one place, instead of scattered in boxes, cases, drawers, etc.



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Late to the party, but that did come out nice.

 

[kbs2244]

No PICs
But I have used the SS handicapped shower grab bars as handle bars.
The long ones look good as rails on the top of short PU beds too.

 

[Hexen]

No PICs
But I have used the SS handicapped shower grab bars as handle bars.
The long ones look good as rails on the top of short PU beds too.

They also make great towel bars, as I found when dissatisfied with the selection of most things sold as towel bars these days (plated plastic and pot-metal).

 

[Lee Celtic]

Impressive horns and impressive carving skills!

I'm not sure what "cleaning out with gravel" means, though?

The inside of horn is alive and fleshy.. it smells real bad.. Once you get it all out you put a bit of gravel in and shake for a good long time.. the gravel scowers out all the soft tissue leaving clean horn. you start with half inch stuff and work down to sand..

carving was freehand using a flap disc on an electric grinder while looking at a real skull on my phone.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

....carving was freehand using a flap disc on an electric grinder while looking at a real skull on my phone.

You’re pretty talented. Doing it freehand from a pic on a phone - I know I could never pull that off. Those were some SERIOUS horns!

 

[Hexen]

The inside of horn is alive and fleshy.. it smells real bad.. Once you get it all out you put a bit of gravel in and shake for a good long time.. the gravel scowers out all the soft tissue leaving clean horn. you start with half inch stuff and work down to sand..

carving was freehand using a flap disc on an electric grinder while looking at a real skull on my phone.

Ah, I see. That must've been a heck of a job getting enough of the gunk out down such a long thin area before switching to the gravel.

 

[kbs2244]

Or, I understand, you can just leave it submerged in a nearby creek for a week.
The crawdads will eat away any fleshy parts.

There was a guy, maybe on youtube, that did skulls that way before mounting them.
It got them "real clean."

 

[Outlander]

They also make great towel bars, as I found when dissatisfied with the selection of most things sold as towel bars these days (plated plastic and pot-metal).

My cheesy towel bar got painted black and installed in garage to store my growing collection of tie-downs

 

[Lee Celtic]

Ah, I see. That must've been a heck of a job getting enough of the gunk out down such a long thin area before switching to the gravel.

Thats why it smells so bad.. leave it a week and it shrinks a little.. get a good coarse thread coach bolt in the end and pull it out in one go.. still messy though..

 

[Lee Celtic]

You’re pretty talented. Doing it freehand from a pic on a phone - I know I could never pull that off. Those were some SERIOUS horns!

Mounted tip to tip is around four feet.. local expert says the goat was around 9-10 years old, we see them now and again up on the mountains.. they stand on their back legs eating leaves on trees and stand well over 6 feet tall.

 

[gerryw]

I needed a tiny sink to wash hands and fill mop bucket (porcelain tile floor)
So i spent $3 @ value village, some pvc for a wall mount.
Drains into mop bucket below.(yes i finished drywall lol)
Used left over floor tile for backsplash.

champagne ice bucket sink.drilled hole on bottom, added a pop up sink stopper

Edit, sink slips off mount if i want to run garden house outside

 

[Lee Celtic]

Nice idea with the ice bucket.. I saw a local guy breaking up a caravan to use the chassis as a flat bed trailer so snagged the sink for free.. it has a fold down tap too and can be fitted under a worktop so it's not taking up space..

 

[gerryw]

Nice idea with the ice bucket.. I saw a local guy breaking up a caravan to use the chassis as a flat bed trailer so snagged the sink for free.. it has a fold down tap too and can be fitted under a worktop so it's not taking up space..

Its all about space (or lack of)!!
When i open the drawers of my box i got about 10mm from sink !lol
Great idea on the caravan sink, free is my favourite word!!

Gerry

 

[sberry]

I was going to put in a commercial piece but my plumma bud said,,, don't do it, spoils the ambiance. Its been fixed a little since.

 

[Ray-CA]

Or, I understand, you can just leave it submerged in a nearby creek for a week.
The crawdads will eat away any fleshy parts.

There was a guy, maybe on youtube, that did skulls that way before mounting them.
It got them "real clean."

"Dirty Jobs" had an episode where the company prepared skeletons for display. They cleaned the bones using insects. My wife brought a conch shell home from vacation and we just left it in the backyard until the ants were done.

Ray

PS: Found it:

 

[mrolds88]

Nice idea with the ice bucket.. I saw a local guy breaking up a caravan to use the chassis as a flat bed trailer so snagged the sink for free.. it has a fold down tap too and can be fitted under a worktop so it's not taking up space..

Neat Idea, Lee. One step farther would be to put it on drawer slides. Along with flexible lines.

 

[MScott]

Or, I understand, you can just leave it submerged in a nearby creek for a week.
The crawdads will eat away any fleshy parts.

There was a guy, maybe on youtube, that did skulls that way before mounting them.
It got them "real clean."

"Dirty Jobs" had an episode where the company prepared skeletons for display. They cleaned the bones using insects. My wife brought a conch shell home from vacation and we just left it in the backyard until the ants were done.

Ray

PS: Found it:

I did this with a whitetail deer head. Buried the head in the earth, covered the antlers with a wire cage (to keep rodents from chewing them) and left it for a couple of months. The skull came out clean and white and the antlers were undamaged.

 

[littleponderosa]

Get some heavy black bags, add nasty *** slough water well over skull & tie it off. Hang it in full sunlight for a couple of months, steady the pukin reflex, cut and hose off. Most excellent result.
Bill

 

[Lahti35]

Two in this shot.... Buick straight 8 valve cover desk lamp (done except for the clock) and a Ford 6 pencil holder I whipped up for my desk in the garage.

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[Hexen]

Two in this shot.... Buick straight 8 valve cover desk lamp (done except for the clock) and a Ford 6 pencil holder I whipped up for my desk in the garage.

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Very nice... though I hope finishing the clock will include rotating it right-side-up?

How much did you have to do to the pencil holder part?

 

[Lahti35]

Very nice... though I hope finishing the clock will include rotating it right-side-up?

How much did you have to do to the pencil holder part?

Yes, the clock will be right side up when done

All you need is a drill for the distributor cap and you can go to town... If I was going to have it on a nice desk I would have out something on the bottom so the pencils don't mark up the desk... but the garage desk is pretty worn so it's no big deal to me.

 

[Bears Fan]

lahti

Nice job on the lamp!!! That is badass!!! I might have to steal that idea someday

 

[ArkTinkerer]

Had a bunch of ceiling fan light covers and copper wire...https://www.facebook.com/eric.bryan.334/videos/pcb.1571295929613342/1571293786280223/?type=3&theater

 

[slip knot]

My son found a dead wild goat up on the mountain behind the house and brought the Horns home.. He wanted some way of mounting them so I fitted a sanding flap disc to my grinder and set about carving a skull out of a lump of pallet wood.. each horn is around 2 ' 6" long.. all they needed was cleaning out with gravel and a coat of varnish to bring out the grain..

https://scontent-lhr3-1.**.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/24852247_364839853941935_8197296920680988811_n.jpg?oh=ce9c98051649b5c9ccccd3ab75895318&oe=5AEFA316

Really nice work, but the horns are on backwards.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Really nice work, but the horns are on backwards.

No, the goat is looking at the wall

 

[Hexen]

Really nice work, but the horns are on backwards.

Oh snap. Don't think it'd be very practical for wall-mounting if they were turned around, though. Would have to have the horns sticking through the wall into the next room.

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

This wasn’t my repurpose but I seen it at a garage sale and it kind of intrigued me. I bought a wack of stuff so it was likely just thrown on the pile and got a great price. Once I got home I found my Howick motor turned out to be from a coffee grinder. Will include a picture of what it had originally been part of. Probably will clean it up and then see if one of the kids want it.