The repurposing thread

[harley jim]

There is a shot of Jack in that bottle,
Step away from the bottle, LOL
I would love to find a schlitz I havent been able to find one around here in a couple of years.

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[Aldochina]

Great thread! Most everything around here is repurposed! I'll start with my workbench/toolbox!
Early 90's Russ Basset cabinet with 24x27x5" drawers on accuride ball bearing rails. This thing is loaded. Super heavyweight. I can stand on these drawers no problem. Double bench top. Power strips, all 20 amp top of the line Hubbell receptacles custom made for IBM servers all # 10 wire with no daisy chaining of outlets. Bus bar is great for welding on or for holding parts in place.

 

[Aldochina]

My welding table is 3/8 repurposed plate, with custom ground connection, and bus bar surface when I desire!
Empty pre packaged sandwich meat containers fit perfect in the drawer slots!

 

[ndnchf]

Speaking of welding tables. Mine is made from repurposed 1/2" steel plate, steel pipe legs and the skin off and old washer for a spark shield.

 

[Shootinok]

Had an old ratchet with a stripped selector so I made it into a door pull.

Wife said it’s “dorky”

I’m starting to question her taste


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[harley jim]

Had an old ratchet with a stripped selector so I made it into a door pull.

Wife said it’s “dorky”

I’m starting to question her taste


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Just put a socket on it and she'll like it.
Looks good[emoji106]

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[jpmmilner]

Wife said it’s “dorky”

I’m starting to question her taste



Her tase has apparently worked for your advantage in the past. You should probably not question it too heavily lest she start reconsidering other issues of taste in the past.

That said: Don’t change it. It looks cool.


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[paulsomlo]

Had an old ratchet with a stripped selector so I made it into a door pull.
Wife said it’s “dorky”

I’m starting to question her taste


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How's the backdrag?

 

[Bighead38]

My welding table is 3/8 repurposed plate, with custom ground connection, and bus bar surface when I desire!
Empty pre packaged sandwich meat containers fit perfect in the drawer slots!

What is a bus bar surface?

Had an old ratchet with a stripped selector so I made it into a door pull.

Wife said it’s “dorky”

I’m starting to question her taste


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She’s wrong.

 

[y'sguy]

Does this count?
Excess and obsolete stock and was being scrapped. Had two. Chief Metallurgist asked what I was going to do with them. After I told him, he offered to cut them with the Metallurgy department diamond saw in exchange for him keeping one set. Deal!

@mcmlvif100

Excellent reading choices!

 

[Aldochina]

Bighead, its solid copper plates used in heavy duty electrical equipment most is 1/4 thick. These pieces have a tinned coating hence the silver color. They are solid copper.

 

[mcmlvif100]

@mcmlvif100

Excellent reading choices!

Thanks. Aligns with my nickname and avatar ... ... MCMLVIF100 --> 1956 F100 and the hood ornament for said truck which is a very long term restoration project. Has a 292 Y-block w/ granny low 4 speed. Not for everyone but I like the Y-block enough to keep it.

 

[Chukster]

I'll repost a couple different ones:


First is a sewing table I made for my wif, with a very old solid oak elementary grades school desk, and a piece of granite. Found both at our local Habitat Re-use store, just after Xmas. The desk's plywood top (at least 3/4 inch thick!) had obvious water damage, so that came off. Sanded & stained the desk, then used construction adhesive to bond the piece of granite to the top of the desk. Also ended up putting a switched outlet strip in the RH side for the sewing machine and 2 (count 'em! not one, but two!!) work lights. Happy wife!!!

2nd set is a bunch of plain metal drawers I snagged out of my old workplace as we moved to new quarters, and then they demolished the workbenches to try to make it temporary habitation for a bunch of firefighters. Couple days of scrounging & I came up with over 20 drawers. One set of 8 I just bolted together and set them on the floor under some similar smaller drawers. The next 10 I had to pick & choose the usable ones, built a 5 high by 2 wide set & put it on a castered frame. Next I took a section of discarded kitchen countertop and screwed it on from under. Another power strip on the side, and my drill press can be almost anywhere in the shop.

 

[jdoe213]

Had an old ratchet with a stripped selector so I made it into a door pull.

Wife said it’s “dorky”

I’m starting to question her taste


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Did you tell her that she had to listen for 5 clicks to the left and 4 to the right before the door would open?

 

[Modern Garage]

Was driving somewhere and passing this old ceiling fan on the curb my wife remarks "I could see that as a flower if you painted it right".
Spin the truck around and lob the thing in the back, and a couple days worth of work later, here we are.
I cut the leaves from the side of a 55 gallon drum so the rib of the drum would become the vein in the leaf, then cut off the bottom foot of the same drum and rolled the edge for the planter bottom, the stem was a piece of old well pipe, and two weeks after planting it outside the fake wood fan blades started to warp so I cut replacements from a plastic 30 gal drum.

Joe

 

[Modern Garage]

Here's a better picture.
Joe

 

[Old Man Roger]

Here's a better picture.
Joe

Needs a big honeybee on it, maybe an ant on the ground.

 

[shortykorte]

Now that’s creative.



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[Bighead38]

Bighead, its solid copper plates used in heavy duty electrical equipment most is 1/4 thick. These pieces have a tinned coating hence the silver color. They are solid copper.

Thanks.

Here's a better picture.
Joe

I want to see the truck in the background.

 

[jeffm360]

Here's a better picture.
Joe

Heres my take on that

 

[Old Man Roger]

Heres my take on that

I think I recognize clutch pack rings and a juicer?

 

[fartymarty]

I think I recognize clutch pack rings and a juicer?

I was guessing straight cut beveled pinion gear but you might be correct. I was thinking the smaller rings were from a motorcycle wet clutch..but the larger ones?...farm implement?

 

[jeffm360]

No juicer in aware of. Large petals came from Mack Truck clutch i believe. The tiny solid gears are from old 4 1/2" grinders. The leaves are an old dually wheel spacer i cut up. The stalk is from a trampoline frame. The stalk and leaves both spin seperately on some type of gear housing base. The small clutch type ones, dont know. I save all kinds of scrap gears to make stuff out of. I just like the look.

 

[Old Man Roger]

No juicer in aware of. Large petals came from Mack Truck clutch i believe. The tiny solid gears are from old 4 1/2" grinders. The leaves are an old dually wheel spacer i cut up. The stalk is from a trampoline frame. The stalk and leaves both spin seperately on some type of gear housing base. The small clutch type ones, dont know. I save all kinds of scrap gears to make stuff out of. I just like the look.

The cone shaped part in the center was the part I thought was a juicer. I think on a real flower it would be called the stigma, I think.lol

 

[Modern Garage]

Neighbor's Chev. They want me to get it running but I can't get within twenty feet of it without gagging on the smell of bird droppings and mouse urine. A window has been out of it for years and the sparrows and mice have a time-share thing going on.

Joe

 

[BMWBOB]

Just found this thread - here is my workbench. Except for the shelves which were left-over scraps of USB, the rest of the bench is made out of reclaimed lumber

Also, I turned an old horse drawn harrow into a "chandelier" for our patio pergola.

 

[Copymutt]

Neighbor has a stack of old styrofoam insulation panels. Been hangin around for 14 yrs. Apple harvest is upcoming and lost my storage facility from prior yrs.
Knocked this out. Divider permits cooling smaller chamber. Toss in 1 synthetic ice pack every 2 to 3 days. 13 cu. ft. Total cost $15.00 for adhesive caulk and two sticks of wall edge protectors. Skin is 3/16 ply from disassemble hollow doors. Have you seen the Covid prices on chest freezers? This is the 2nd project w/ this foam. Last month was a lagering chamber for brewing. Same concept, maintain 55* temp. for lager home brew when its 80* in the garage.

 

[BMWBOB]

Forgot about this - I repurposed another old harrow: took it apart to use for hanging things. Here's the first 2 sections hanging coiled stuff that you always need and never can find!

Made about a 20 degree dado cut in some old 2x2's, painted 'em with used oil and bolted the sections from the back which gave me a good purchase: made sure one end was in a stud, the other was hit and miss, but I estimate each will easily hold 100lbs or more.

 

[ChefRex]

Thanks. Here is a video of it playing the film. I couldn't get it to load through my phone, so I had to go to the computer.

Slowly going though the thread but this is so cool that it still projects
Been doing a through cleaning of the garage, been a cluster and then got a large dump last year after changing jobs.
I did repurposed a pressure washer's cord on my old GE floor fan today, now I can move it anywhere in the garage, it's ground faulted and an on/off switch thrown in for good measure, she needs a good clean up, paint but it moves some air!

 

[Iron Beaver]

I assume most here are familiar with the type of fire extinguisher that has a pressurized canister mounted to the side and a hose with what is technically named a squeeze-y thing on the end. Those make GREAT high-volume blow guns. Remove the hose from the extinguisher (make sure it's depressurized!). Clean the accumulated fire suppresant powder and other grime out of the blow gun and attach your favorite air fitting on the pipe thread fitting on the other end of the hose. I like Chicago style fittings because these guns use so much air flow. They will blow away just about anything you point them at

 

[aka Larry]

Just found this thread - here is my workbench. Except for the shelves which were left-over scraps of USB, the rest of the bench is made out of reclaimed lumber

How in the world did you make shelves out of a Universal Serial Bus?

 

[ndnchf]

This is a sturdy work table I made from a junk industrial sewing machine stand. I added good casters, a shelf and a plywood top. Around three sides I made a rack to hold all my angle grinders. Added a small vise at one corner and its own outlet box and 25' power cord. Its a great all purpose work table in the garage. But I roll it into the driveway for dirty grinding work or painting things. If the top gets too beat up, I just install a new piece of plywood. Its very handy and one of my favorite pieces of shop equipment.

 

[BMWBOB]

This is a sturdy work table I made from a junk industrial sewing machine stand. I added good casters, a shelf and a plywood top. Around three sides I made a rack to hold all my angle grinders. Added a small vise at one corner and its own outlet box and 25' power cord. Its a great all purpose work table in the garage. But I roll it into the driveway for dirty grinding work or painting things. If the top gets too beat up, I just install a new piece of plywood. Its very handy and one of my favorite pieces of shop equipment.

I'm going to build a similar work table. I'm lucky enough to have a shop big enough to store my RV trailer inside, which is good. Unfortunately, it also gets filthy because I have enough room to work with the trailer in there too.

A mobile stand with a vise, grinder/accessory storage, maybe a bench grinder, with an outlet plumbed to an extension cord....

This is on my list of things to do!

 

[WinMod21]

Another member suggested that this might be a repurposed vintage appliance motor.
I think so; but I'm not sure.

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=8615649&postcount=2075

 

[Copymutt]

After about a yr. of trial. These little buggers work great for sealing partial tubes of caulk.

 

[mv213]

After about a yr. of trial. These little buggers work great for sealing partial tubes of caulk.

I’ve had moderate success with wire nuts....squeeze out enough calk to fill the wire nut then screw it on the end. Works great with latex calks. Silicone, it will last several weeks before it eventually cures into the tube and has to be thrown out.

 

[larry4406]

I’ve had moderate success with wire nuts....squeeze out enough calk to fill the wire nut then screw it on the end. Works great with latex calks. Silicone, it will last several weeks before it eventually cures into the tube and has to be thrown out.

I will have to try the wire nut method of sealing caulk tubes. I have either resorted to a nail inserted in the end, or squeezing a section about 1/4-1/2" out and letting it harden; once hardened you can often pull it and out comes the plug.

 

[fartymarty]

After about a yr. of trial. These little buggers work great for sealing partial tubes of caulk.

I’ve had moderate success with wire nuts....squeeze out enough calk to fill the wire nut then screw it on the end. Works great with latex calks. Silicone, it will last several weeks before it eventually cures into the tube and has to be thrown out.

I will have to try the wire nut method of sealing caulk tubes. I have either resorted to a nail inserted in the end, or squeezing a section about 1/4-1/2" out and letting it harden; once hardened you can often pull it and out comes the plug.

I'm not sure I'm following the logic here...? Copymutt gets a year out of using foam ear plugs, and mv213 gets a few weeks using wire nuts, so larry' is going to go with the wire nuts?

Well regardless, Copymutt, more info needed: Do you pinch the small end of the foam plug and insert it into the hole at the tip of the caulk tube; or do you drill a small hole at the fat end of the ear plug and then place it over the end of the tip like a cap?

 

[ChefRex]

Harleys used to come shipped on oak pallets, being poor at the time I disassembled a bunch of them and built work tables,
The only thing added was the 3/4 pine on the top that I scrounged from somewhere, glue and lags. Rock solid.
Don’t mind the mess, been cleaning.


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[ChefRex]

Oh, as a bonus they had these nice oak wedges that I use for a verity of purposes,


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