you
well in this video I'll show you how I built all seven of these metal tool
stands for my small shop for less than 100 bucks
so with the welding torch you're kind of making a sea and filling in normally
we're just going up paws down up paws down but with some of these bigger gaps
they're a little harder you can see that's a lot tighter and here's the
settings we turn the wire feet up if you need more wire turn the voltage up or
down depending on if you're burning through time to take them home clean
them up paint them and
now we're and a half a grinding later and ready to take them downstairs and
pay them
okay I just got done spraying and wiping down all the stands with sprayed it with
wd-40 and I wiped it down this road looked like this when I started I
probably should have washed all these off first but it's February and it's
zero degrees outside all right this is a test the first actually the first time I
put the tools on the stands and checking them out I really like the height I like
the height of the bandsaw it's right at a chest level it drills a little lower
which is nice vice is even lower animal is even lower
right it knuckle height when you're standing put your knuckles down that's
right where you want to be and the two Sanders are good height and the grinders
the highest one off the ground and that's good too so I'm happy with all
the Heights I made them and the holes line up which is good
kind of goes on like pile your like a thin polyurethane
staying organized in a small compact space has always been an issue trying to
find where I can store things up in the rafters and things like that but one
problem was I would always keep tools down on a shelf so if I needed a grinder
or a sander I would have to take it out set it up plug it and use it clean it
off put it away and I would immediately need it again so I needed some way to
have the tools out and ready and for something like my miter saw I had a wood
stand I made it out of two by fours and that's fine for that because I keep
moving it around when I need it but I saw a mine some people were building
stands out of Steel they were using a car rim for the base there's two places
you can find them I found seven of these rims we'll just buy the set of tools
stands on Craigslist for 30 bucks so we guy was selling them they were
bent and 30 bucks I got seven rims otherwise they were gonna be ten bucks
each from a junkyard the next thing was finding steel for the actual stance now
before I wasn't bought the steel I had to determine what tools I was going to
use how high the plates needed to be and how high the tools need to be if you
look all of these tools stands are different heights and the plates on here
in different sizes so I got all the tools out that I wanted to do I laid him
on a big sheet of brown construction paper I traced out the base plates where
I was going to mount the bolts and I determined the height so drill press I
wanted it to be this height the the balance of this eye which meant that the
bases had to be different heights themselves I went to a metal scrap yard
nearby and I was able to get for $70 total I got 12 feet of this schedule 80
heavy heavy duty four inch steel pipe and I think a 14 foot by 11 inch wide
thick quarter inch steel plate like so for 70 bucks I got all the steel two
tools that were laying around and so all of this together was a hundred bucks now
when I went there you do have to bargain if you're gonna go to scrapyard they
weigh it out they say okay that's that weigh so much it's gonna be $200 and I
was like I'm not spending that I talked to the manager and he's like how about
70 I said sure so definitely don't spend whatever they tell you at first kind of
bargain say hey what about this what about that
now if you're gonna do this I have a small little the $90 flux core welder
from Harbor Freight I could have done it with that but I have a buddy that's a
welder and he is a really good welder and he has an oxy-acetylene torch and
there's no way I could have made these without that oxy-acetylene torch a
cutting wheel and a grinder it would have taken forever we made these working
together where you can make a couple of couple stances it's gonna make seven you
better have the right tools and after coming back from his grudge the next day
I had to clean up all the rust these pipes have been sitting out for who
knows how long they're all covered in rust so I had a couple grinding this I
got these from Harbor Freight I got them the multipack there's a pack of two of
these brushes and two of these for nine bucks I got four of them from Harbor
Freight and they look to be just as good and they work great so then I had all
the rough stuff I brought them down here and I put oil and wd-40 on all the pipes
just to found a really cool trick that you can do for clear coating steel and
that is with this right here it's penetrant called
flood and a lot of guys that do rat rods and stuff like that rusty metal painted
hoods you just paint this right on top this stuff went on and it's rock solid
and smooth shiny and it has a great finish to it and I've totally changed my
mind about painting though I just clear coated the metal and that's what you see
the last thing I did was on the bottom I took some felt and my hot glue gun and
I hot glued and felt a felt ring on the bottom of all these that way when I
settle down because sometimes I have to pull them out and slide them around I
don't want to be scraping that metal on the ground sometimes I have to pull my
bandsaw out to cut with a big board so with the felt on the bottom it allows me
to slide I just really like how this setup works its mobile it's customizable
they're gonna last forever it's not like something I go a lot of
even though this is pretty good and I like beside wheels for my miter saw
being able to flip up the extension I love how these turned out I'm glad I did
it so let me know what you think thanks
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