today on Steve Robb reviews are going to have a short easy project of working on this Makita
air compressor now this air compressor you know is it's not too heavy for me but you know what
there's one handle here and a lot of times if you want to move it around anywhere well it's
a little bit of a challenge you know if you got to lift it up move it over all the time so I'm gonna
put this on wheels the easiest way I can so it's actually portable I can take it off this structure
I can put it back on very easily and I got all the materials here I've got my hole saw drill
I got four casters and I got three pieces of wood I got all my fasteners all lined up and I'm going
to show you how easy it is to fabricate something like this and the first thing you have to do is
think what you're going to do with it after it's all done and for me I want to be able to pull it
as well so I'm just going to catch an easy little rope to it and let's get started now and all I'm
going to do is I'm going to put that big board underneath here and I'm just going to trace out
the outline of the rubber feet that's on there and take my hole saw punch some holes through I
take out the tripod first and I'm just going to show you what these legs look like on a Makita
compressor okay so let's take a good look here and as you can see there's four of them and you
know this is going to be a quite easy project all I have to do is put a two and a half inch
hole and match it up all the way along just slip the board underneath and just get my pencil and
just circle around each one and that'll pretty well be it and you know I'm gonna do I'm gonna
put underneath there I'm going to punch out the three holes and I'll save the last one because
I'm going to show you a little bit of a jig that I use for finding the center of a hole so here I got
everything all lined up ready to go and let's get to it right now let's start fabricating this okay
this may be a little bit difficult to see but you can actually see in the background here you see
you just draw a line down and as you can see the other ones are all done and this is quite an easy
little jig to operate and it's transparent well it's a lot more transparent you know if it wasn't
twenty years old okay before you start here I always like to actually mark my nice little Center
punch right here and then we can just drill this I would so let's just take a look there
there we go right there okay mild your load the rest and then I'll come back
well I drilled out all the holes and tell you the truth there's a lot of furs and I like to
just smooth off the inside here a little bit because it's going to be I like to have this
all smoothed off to it is going to be a tight fit so this is all too easy today
rather than get your hands in there with some sandpaper and this is a nice little tool to do
it with okay so all I'm gonna do here is just put in a couple of cheap screws just in the center of
the whole disc and this is four inches both of them and the total outside diameter here well
it's eighteen by eighteen and as you can see the four feet are going to sit right in here
and underneath yes we're putting the casters on right here next well there you go right
there of course this is the top side and there is a front and a back and of course you want to
put your swivels on the front and actually steer this when you're moving it around so
they're got all the holes mark all I gotta do now drill the holes out put the casters
on I'll bring you back when that's done okay you know I can't leave that bare wood just
like that I gotta sand the edges all the way around round off the corners let's get to it
okay so let's get tighten these down here now as you can see I'm gonna
have to cut the extra threads off here because yeah a little bit too long so
that's the fastest way right here there I see I gotta cut them off right
they should be fine like that all right you get the idea okay so what I'm gonna do is uh I'll
finish tightening these all down I'll flip it over and I'll show you what it looks like well
as you can see I sipped off the tops there so I can move this around and before we turn it over
just gonna put these on and that's just like a a couple of nice spots and you can attach a
rope to there we go okay you ready I'm gonna put it on the on the compressor let's take a
look okay so there we go I'm gonna do my best to try and fit it on there this is the first time
so we'll just take this kind of just line her up there we go that's not too bad at all okay
I'll attach the rope on it and I'll show you how good it pulls well before we actually show
you how it pulls I just show you I'm just joining these two pieces of rope together and that's what
I use I don't go for any of these greasy knots and of course just like the end on fire there
with your torch seal it all up and away you go so let's see how this thing pulls okay you ready
nice this this book looks like a dream here I'll mention something here can you
hear that going back and forth on the bottom what that does is I can actually let you pull
leverage either way compared to just putting a greasy knock back there and you could put that
anywhere well I hope you like that little project and of course you can use this on
any compressor you know it's just that this one here weighs about 75 pounds and for some people
that's quite heavy and you know what this is going to come in handy even on my lawn up my
camp yeah I can transport anywhere I want just take the compressor off and I got the standard
left underneath so it's not added weight and I think it's a win use guys let me know what you
think in the comments below and yeah this is a very simple project the whole time I
spread out in the shop here is around an hour so and it's cold but I see the breath
here yeah she's cold out here okay thanks for joining me here today if you haven't seen this
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