fartymarty
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So what are you going to make from the opposite end? 
The repurposing thread
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Old Man Roger
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In true garage journal fashion, totally over built. I like it..lol
rocksnstumps
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Dunno about the other end yet. Could make a 2nd belt grinder that would just be opposite hand but where's the fun in that?
Actually been thinking more about the base from this unit:
Was just considering using the heavy cast iron base for something simple like bottom for a fab/weld table but the stuff on top has a bunch of interesting function yet.....maybe (after cleaning up rusty parts). The long table on the right with the white plastic strip bolted to it has dovetails to move left/right and also up and down (cranked with a big handwheel hidden in the pic) This section of table also had a bunch of pneumatic clamps operated with solenoids that slide along the long slot in the side. The short base on the left where the drilling spindle part bolted on top has linear slides (bearings pretty crusty tho) that moved left/right with a pneumatic cylinder. Looks tantalizing to reuse in some fashion but only thing I can come up with is maybe a mortising fixture but don't really do much of that. Plus would end up way bigger than a simple mortise machine needs to be.
Last, hard to see in pic but there is a wheelbarrow by the boat full of pneumatic brackets/clamps and in the bottom of that are a couple of 1 hp motors/drills that were also mounted vertical to the right table. Even if I just strip down to the cast base this thing has all sorts of bits and pieces to repurpose.....somehow.
Actually been thinking more about the base from this unit:
Was just considering using the heavy cast iron base for something simple like bottom for a fab/weld table but the stuff on top has a bunch of interesting function yet.....maybe (after cleaning up rusty parts). The long table on the right with the white plastic strip bolted to it has dovetails to move left/right and also up and down (cranked with a big handwheel hidden in the pic) This section of table also had a bunch of pneumatic clamps operated with solenoids that slide along the long slot in the side. The short base on the left where the drilling spindle part bolted on top has linear slides (bearings pretty crusty tho) that moved left/right with a pneumatic cylinder. Looks tantalizing to reuse in some fashion but only thing I can come up with is maybe a mortising fixture but don't really do much of that. Plus would end up way bigger than a simple mortise machine needs to be.
Last, hard to see in pic but there is a wheelbarrow by the boat full of pneumatic brackets/clamps and in the bottom of that are a couple of 1 hp motors/drills that were also mounted vertical to the right table. Even if I just strip down to the cast base this thing has all sorts of bits and pieces to repurpose.....somehow.
rocksnstumps
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It is a heavy beast but gotta work with what you got! Paid slightly less than scrap iron price even for whole thing so I could still get my money back. The whole unit together weighs well over a ton. My 2000# capacity manual fork lift would not even budge it to get off the trailer without some disassembly first.
Old Man Roger
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You fit in great here.
GarageHobbyist
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Frame is bed frame angle, bottle rack is a grill grate, side shelf for the Kobalt box was made from and old wire rack, and the drawer front extension is sheet metal I cut out from a different junk tool cart a couple years ago.
csp
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That belt grinder is brilliant!
BlueBomber
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My firewood rack, built from scrapped trampoline frames. It holds about 1.5 cords of wood.
PugetDude
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Nice rack...
BlueBomber
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Here are a few more of my recent repurposing projects:
Old hay grapple and bowling ball turned spider Halloween decoration
Ditto for an emptied helium dispenser that the trash man refused to take. Carved with a plasma torch and rigged with a "flickering flame" LED light.
Speaking of plasma torch work, I carved an image of my Aunt-in-law's Dalmation, Penny, from a rusty old fuel tank that sat beside my garage for years after the excavator dug it up during the foundation work for said garage. I projected a picture of Penny onto the side of the tank, traced her spots with a sharpie, and then carved away with the plasma torch. I then gave it a few coats of flat white spray paint to make her stand out against a dark background.
Old hay grapple and bowling ball turned spider Halloween decoration
Ditto for an emptied helium dispenser that the trash man refused to take. Carved with a plasma torch and rigged with a "flickering flame" LED light.
Speaking of plasma torch work, I carved an image of my Aunt-in-law's Dalmation, Penny, from a rusty old fuel tank that sat beside my garage for years after the excavator dug it up during the foundation work for said garage. I projected a picture of Penny onto the side of the tank, traced her spots with a sharpie, and then carved away with the plasma torch. I then gave it a few coats of flat white spray paint to make her stand out against a dark background.
jimgood
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I bought a HF tire changer a while back and put off doing anything with it because I had no room in my shop to set it up and I really didn't feel like pouring a slab outside somewhere. As luck would have it, we decided to get some work done on our septic tank and they brought a replacement lid for the riser. The old lid was still solid. It just had some chips missing from the underside.
As they were about to haul it off, I realized it would make a perfect base for the tire changer. So I drilled some holes in it and here we are.
I used it today to unmount a tire from my daily driver so I could fix the rim. Worked great. I haven't worked up to doing the duck head upgrade yet but I'll get around to it.
As they were about to haul it off, I realized it would make a perfect base for the tire changer. So I drilled some holes in it and here we are.
I used it today to unmount a tire from my daily driver so I could fix the rim. Worked great. I haven't worked up to doing the duck head upgrade yet but I'll get around to it.
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atch
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I've never heard of upgrading the duck head 'til I read your response. Is this what you're referring to?
That sounds like a great upgrade for the HF tire change machines.
captain14
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jimgood,
Do you keep it covered if you keep it outside?
Do you keep it covered if you keep it outside?
jimgood
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There's a little more to it than just the duck head. There's a company that makes a complete add-on but it's pricey:
There's also the DIY route:
jimgood
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I'm inclined to leave it uncovered. It's thickly powder coated and the only part where rust would really matter is the threaded rod at the top. But it's well greased and covered by the tube threaded onto it at the top.
Same problem, where to mount.
Fab'ed an extension mount for a trailer hitch.
Like this, except it is adjustable up/down on the changer for different hitch heights.
Only used for MC tires.
I made this "birds head" from a picture of a Mojo lever, welded it onto the HF bar.
works a treat.
jmo,
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bubinga
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Repurposed on 18165 with a charging port, right on the battery protected battery.
The charge port on my Braun work light, quit working so I couldn't onboard charge.
Drilled Ahole in the appropriate spot, for my charge cable to pass through.
Eliminating the need to change the charge port that is in the light and have to disassemble it.
The charge port on my Braun work light, quit working so I couldn't onboard charge.
Drilled Ahole in the appropriate spot, for my charge cable to pass through.
Eliminating the need to change the charge port that is in the light and have to disassemble it.
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fartymarty
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Please forgive me when I say ... HUH?
Say What?
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bubinga
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Sorry But between the pictures and what text you can add on to them, I think lt ls clear what l did.
PugetDude
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Maybe to some, but I ain't one of them
atch
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Me neither.
csp
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Nope
bubinga
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You know what buddy, if you can't see what I did then I don't know what the hell to tell you.
Why don't you go over to Facebook and be a grammar police over that over there. Maybe you can get a full-time position on Facebook police and errors and run on sentences and things that somebody didn't proofread properly you guys just trying to give somebody a hard time.
Again if you can't figure out what it is then I don't know what to tell you.
Maybe I just don't post to her anymore.
bubinga
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Here, does this *really*explain it any better.
Broken charge port on my Braun work light.
Drilled A Hole.. in the Brawn work light to correspond with the charge port built into the battery.
Now there, that explains it.
For the majority that couldn't figure it out from the other post.
A lot of you all are just trying to give a guy a hard freaking time.
Yin'z think Yin'z are smart.
Broken charge port on my Braun work light.
Drilled A Hole.. in the Brawn work light to correspond with the charge port built into the battery.
Now there, that explains it.
For the majority that couldn't figure it out from the other post.
A lot of you all are just trying to give a guy a hard freaking time.
Yin'z think Yin'z are smart.
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PugetDude
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Thanks for enlightening us. I always get a charge out of your posts.
Movin/on
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Quite a few years ago I got a brake drum lathe for free when cleaning out a closed boat repair shop. It sat for a good 8 years in my shop before I thought of a use for it. Welded a lathe chuck on the end of the shaft and turned down a shorted car axle (Ford 28 spline) Chucked the shortened axle and mounted a Mag 8.5" wide wheel to it. Picture shows the axle in the chuck. The brake Lathe turns at 45 RPM so I can work on the front of the wheel with angle grinders and polishing wheels on air driven angle drivers.
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bubinga
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Great!
That is the best thing.
Sorry guys, just tired of the NIT-Pickers and whiners on here.
larry4406
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No pictures....
I used drywall compound on a shop rag to polish out stain marks on a cast iron bath tub. The fine gypsum worked nicely along with elbow grease.
I used drywall compound on a shop rag to polish out stain marks on a cast iron bath tub. The fine gypsum worked nicely along with elbow grease.
fartymarty
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Hey sorry I said anything to offend you....I do think if my battery had a charging port on it I might have been able to figure out what your initial post was supposed to convey, but mine is just a regular rechargeable battery with a bump on one end and a flat spot on the other. Between the differences in our respective batteries and the wording in your original post I was befuddled. I was not thinking I was smart nor trying to give you a hard freaking time...although I might be trying to give you a little bit now...more of a raz
than a hard freaking time though. I learned that not all these lights have the same battery, so that's something. I'd like to see a photo of the battery with the charging port in it though. (I'll ask elsewhere, you are off the hook bubinga, I've taken enough of your time) I can live with being called a nit-picker if it gets me the info I'm looking for...I don't whine though..pointless to whine when one can just leave.Regardless, thanks for the attempt to share info, even if it wasn't initially received as you intended.
csp
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Wow, you easily get your shorts in a wad don't you?
You lost me when you assumed that everyone knows what the hell a 18165 is along with the mention of battery protected battery.
If you can't handle that perhaps you should stop posting. It's not a ****, don't take it so hard.
ObnoxiousFumes
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I found a camshaft in the local GM scrap bin, I think it's from some sort of LS. It's almost completely hollow, and I'm considering building a lamp out of it. Any other ideas?
