On Saturday I grabbed the handle of my welder and heaved it off the ground, only to find that the welder was no longer attached to it. Bugger! It's bloody heavy and I'm sick of lugging it around so I thought I'd make a trolley to make life a little easier. Finished painting it on Tuesday, riveted it together last night and hey presto. Does the job quite nicely. It was made using some scrap alu panel, 19mm 16swg RHS and cost about £15.00. Bargain.

Anyone else made any useful workshop equipment?

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I used the bottom of an old office chair with a threaded height adjuster. I welded an upright on the stem and a cross piece with some stops on the ends to make a rest for the other end of long bar when cutting it. The threaded bit gives some play when using the abrasive cutter

Could do with something like that at work. Would also go quite nicely with the metal cut-off saw that I can't afford to buy. Anyone made one?

Thats not a welder.....



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Thats a Welder and a small one at that plus its home made trolley.

Oh and it's also sat next to the home made compressor.

The home made engine stand is in my other garage

Show off.

Have you got any pics of your engine stand? I was thinking about doing the same.

Unfortunately not at the moment, cos it's in my other garage (work materials and trailer store) which is across town

But i copied a Machine Mart one

TimF sent me a few chapters of Racer's Guide to Fabricating Shop Equipment, it shows you how to make an engine stand, engine hoist and hydraulic press. Priced the steel for the hoist and you could almost by one for the same price. Fancy making the stand though.

How did you attach the head?

Just found these on my HardDrive, god knows where they came from.

Might be of some use. Thats what mine looks like.

Thanks to whoever produced them !

Ok, would of helped if it had attached them !

[Edited on 24/9/04 by Ben_Copeland]

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Made mine out of scraps i picked up... mostly Stainless Steel tubing.

Cost nothing in the end

That's the one i've got. Thank you though.

Is that the same way you attached the head to yours? Was wondering if there was a better way.

Kinda, only used 2 arms tho... the rest of engine bolted to the head plate.

Works ok... sags a bit with heavy engine on

In my photo archive there are instructions for making an engine crane which came out of a magazine - don't remember which though.

Haven't used them myself as I bought one from machine mart when they had a VAT free offer.

Is that a propane bottle in there Ben. I was warned not to use one as the pump I had was rated too high for the bottle. They are only tested to 90psi allegedly. I used a lorry brake tank. I sold that one and bought a SIP.

Its ok Pete, it's an old pump motor, it's not got much over 90PSI in it lol It's been fine for us... used it for 4 days solid one time. I stay well away from it usually anyway lol