The repurposing thread

[Burn1]

Repurposed locomotive piston into side-table.
Wrist pin hole works great for a magazine holder.
100lbs aluminum slug.

Burn
Austin,TX

 

[4 FN 27]

Repurposed locomotive piston into side-table.
Wrist pin hole works great for a magazine holder.
100lbs aluminum slug.

Burn
Austin,TX

Awesome...I'd love to have one of those.

I like your Herman Miller Chair too...I have 1 from the 80's with only 4 legs. We use to build parts for Herman Miller.

 

[Burn1]

Thx 4FN27
Buy once, cry once is what I said day it came home. Most relaxing chair to sit in after a long work or project day. Only wish I would have bought one years ago.

 

[shortykorte]

Wow. Awesome table.


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[joe49]

lis2323

 

[dwysywd]

Thx 4FN27
Buy once, cry once is what I said day it came home. Most relaxing chair to sit in after a long work or project day. Only wish I would have bought one years ago.

LoL. Great words of advice! I used to have one at the office I worked at years ago. I always loved to sit in it.

 

[homeschool]

Repurposed locomotive piston into side-table.

Wrist pin hole works great for a magazine holder.

100lbs aluminum slug.



Burn

Austin,TX

Where'd you find that! Would be a perfect cigar ashtray.

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[E.rodz]

fabricated a stainless flag for my Dad for fathers day out of a recycled bent up piece of stainless and a old pallet for a frame. ended up bending the flag to make it look like it was blowing in the wind dusting black primer over the pallet then sanded it a bit. a friend of mine cut out the flag on his cnc plasma cutter, ground the stainless down with a scotchbrite pad on a grinder then candy paint over the stainless. pretty happy with the way it turned out.however i have some more plans for it for the future!

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[Craptain]

That looks more impressive than your description.

That's a compliment, by the way.

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[protegeV]

Thx 4FN27
Buy once, cry once is what I said day it came home. Most relaxing chair to sit in after a long work or project day. Only wish I would have bought one years ago.

HOREE FOOK. I just looked up those chairs, no thanks.

 

[4 FN 27]

HOREE FOOK. I just looked up those chairs, no thanks.

LOL...

Mine was free...

And they are very comfortable but hard to run the Mill or Lathe from. Too low...

 

[Barrytomia]

I ran the thread below as a test, and now that it works, I wanted to change the name of the thread, but could not find a place to do so. Help

 

[Burn1]

HOREE FOOK. I just looked up those chairs, no thanks.

Confessional booth time:
Forgive me father...
Even paid extra for the oiled hand rubbed finish.
I work with wood as a hobby and don't like plastic-like coated finishes.

 

[Burn1]

E.Rodz,
Beautiful hand crafted art. Well done!
Back-lit with LED tape light or small light source hidden would look killer.

 

[Jazz1]

This street light fell 20 ‘ from my truck. Its aluminum, surprised it did not break into pieces. Brought it home, finally put it to use adding old cutting board

 

[Mike.ASC]

fabricated a stainless flag for my Dad for fathers day out of a recycled bent up piece of stainless and a old pallet for a frame. ended up bending the flag to make it look like it was blowing in the wind dusting black primer over the pallet then sanded it a bit. a friend of mine cut out the flag on his cnc plasma cutter, ground the stainless down with a scotchbrite pad on a grinder then candy paint over the stainless. pretty happy with the way it turned out.however i have some more plans for it for the future!

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That looks great!

 

[scout4bta]

Repurposed an old Timberline table saw into a welding table. Used 3" angle iron for the frame along with 3" swivel steel wheels for mobility.
Gutted the insides of the saw to open up the slot on top, makes a good place to anchor C clamps

 

[Craptain]

Been thinking of something similar. Truth be told it's really Taumac's idea.

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[Muggzy]

Repurposed locomotive piston into side-table.

Wrist pin hole works great for a magazine holder.

100lbs aluminum slug.



Burn

Austin,TX

That should be in the thread of awesome! Where'd you get a poston like that?

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[Bears Fan]

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Cool projects

 

[rodder98]

That is really cool!

 

[lis2323]

Free:
Mobile umbrella stand with 100 pound base from coffee shop.



Repurposed into mobile anchor for battle ropes used for CrossFit and general cardiovascular fitness.






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[cpttuna]

I like this refurbish because it is cheap. The empty 2 liter bottles were given to me and the soda deliver man gave me the plastic holders.

 

[Milan]

I had to do something with these.

 

[BajaScout]

Very cool. The gas pump handle reminded me of this:




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[Fix Until Broke]

I had to do something with these.

I like the wrinkles in the aluminum connecting rod - bet there's a story behind that

 

[BD1]

Recycled well tank for Darth Vader log burner. Removable 6" flue so you can add 6" flue cap when not in use. Inside grate is removable too. Bottom has a cleanout and acts as a adjustable air intake. The flatten expanded metal in door is removable too and the eyes. I wasn't sure which would look neater when burning, the slots or diamond shape. Tank is 20" diameter and 32" tall. Overall height is 42".
It can be lifted anywhere without bending . I Formed horseshoes for the eyes. You can slide logs in without opening door.

 

[ezover]

Recycled well tank for Darth Vader log burner. Removable 6" flue so you can add 6" flue cap when not in use. Inside grate is removable too. Bottom has a cleanout and acts as a adjustable air intake. The flatten expanded metal in door is removable too and the eyes. I wasn't sure which would look neater when burning, the slots or diamond shape. Tank is 20" diameter and 32" tall. Overall height is 42".
It can be lifted anywhere without bending . I Formed horseshoes for the eyes. You can slide logs in without opening door.

Belongs in thread of awesome.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Recycled well tank for Darth Vader log burner. Removable 6" flue so you can add 6" flue cap when not in use. Inside grate is removable too. Bottom has a cleanout and acts as a adjustable air intake. The flatten expanded metal in door is removable too and the eyes. I wasn't sure which would look neater when burning, the slots or diamond shape. Tank is 20" diameter and 32" tall. Overall height is 42".
It can be lifted anywhere without bending . I Formed horseshoes for the eyes. You can slide logs in without opening door.

The shape of the tank gives it a very ''Minion's'' looking Vader..lol Love it

 

[Mattlt]

Couple things that I've done...

I've been fortunate to acquire several computer server racks over the years. I made two of them into racks for steel storage.

The bins are hanging on steel wire shelving. Most bins have a lip on the back to do this with.

 

[Craptain]

Mattit,
I don't have the racks but certainly will approximately copy your ideas. Especially the bin rack. Have you seen the price of new ones?

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[rshadd]

I repurposed the blow-molded case for my Craftsman EZ-Fix Hot Glue Gun. The EZ-Fix uses non-standard oval mini glue sticks that are now obsolete and difficult to acquire.

I just bought a new AdTech Pro200 hot glue gun and after cutting out the inside of the blow-mold case the new gun fit in there great. There's even a place to hold the bottom stand and also a spot to hold a wrench to change the tips. I cut down a few of my 10" glue stick to fit the case so can have everything in one spot. My mini glue gun fits in there too.

 

[madison069]

I repurposed the blow-molded case for my Craftsman EZ-Fix Hot Glue Gun. The EZ-Fix uses non-standard oval mini glue sticks that are now obsolete and difficult to acquire.

I just bought a new AdTech Pro200 hot glue gun and after cutting out the inside of the blow-mold case the new gun fit in there great. There's even a place to hold the bottom stand and also a spot to hold a wrench to change the tips. I cut down a few of my 10" glue stick to fit the case so can have everything in one spot. My mini glue gun fits in there too.

Gave me an idea for my small dewalt hard case. It was just a little too small for the drill and impact combo with all of the bits but I found a dewalt case on the side of the road that was a little bigger that holds by drill and impact with all of my bits with no issues. So now with the smaller case I can put my glue gun in it and keep all of the different glue sticks I have!

 

[jkherd]

Central shaft from a Cherokee transfer case that grenaded. Clock from a dead computer hard drive.

 

[SlappyWhite]

BMW 3.0l End Table/Wine Rack...

If I was to do it again I would have taken it to the machine shop to be hot tanked and decked... Way too much work cleaning it up at home. The engine came out of a friends BMW (replaced).

The top is an Ikea $10 bamboo cutting board cut to size. At some point I may make a top out of carbon fibre, cutting board was just much easier and faster.

 

[Train]

Not as pretty as some of the stuff here, but a lot of repurposed material in my tig cart. The main frame is the stand from the shop furnace that was here when we moved in. The rails for the drawers and tank stand are from a bed frame. The drawers are old file card drawers my wife brought home from work. The shelf under them is wall panel salvage from the neighbors house. The side rails are arm rails from a chair we threw out. The round rods are actually spokes from irrigation wheels from our place. The round rings were pipe hangers from a local greenhouse that closed. The hangers are square tube from bale feeder we longer used. The cart top is part of a sink cutout I saved. Wheels were from an old library cart. Add a few nuts and bolts, a tarp strap, and a scrap piece of osb, and you have a tig cart. Still needs paint. The hanger I'm going to polish and clear coat, as well as leave the sides chrome.

 

[FullRaceMerc]

Not mine. Creative, cheap, but...

 

[cliftonbros89]

Not as pretty as some of the stuff here, but a lot of repurposed material in my tig cart. The main frame is the stand from the shop furnace that was here when we moved in. The rails for the drawers and tank stand are from a bed frame. The drawers are old file card drawers my wife brought home from work. The shelf under them is wall panel salvage from the neighbors house. The side rails are arm rails from a chair we threw out. The round rods are actually spokes from irrigation wheels from our place. The round rings were pipe hangers from a local greenhouse that closed. The hangers are square tube from bale feeder we longer used. The cart top is part of a sink cutout I saved. Wheels were from an old library cart. Add a few nuts and bolts, a tarp strap, and a scrap piece of osb, and you have a tig cart. Still needs paint. The hanger I'm going to polish and clear coat, as well as leave the sides chrome.

That is the definition of repurposing for sure. No waste.

 

[sberry]

stuff from scrap.

 

[shortykorte]

Well darn, I’ll be cutting up the doggie pool now.


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