Todays shop time.

[cmyoung2]

Junk yard trip, or visit a large truck shop that does brakes and axles. Scrap prices make it doable. The problem could be how much other stuff you can find.

Ii like it. If I had 100+ lb round things to weld post mounts, I would have done the same.

 

[KubotainNH]

For anyone planning on building a new shop I would consider vertical receivers mounted in the floor before pouring the concrete.

This is in the one in the concrete pad outside my shop痴 front door.

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It provides limitless options from temporary vise or grinder stands to an outdoor welding table. The crossbar anchor points are used for comealongs, straightening, pulling track etc.

That's pretty cool. I'm contemplating pouring a concrete pad where my shade tree shop is (right outside my walk out basement), this would be a useful addition.

 

[Big Barn]

View attachment 543676made some quick wooden swords with my boys. It was a fun Sunday afternoon project.

Kevin how's your home gym coming along? I can't find it but somewhere on TBN someone posted a cool fix for tractor floor mats using recycled rubber mats from Tractor Supply or somewhere like that.

They were 4'x6'x3/4" and only $30 each. They're great for barn stalls or gym flooring/ cross fit mats. I used the same ones stamped "Made in Canada on the underside ".



Just a thought.

 

[kevinwak]

Kevin how's your home gym coming along? I can't find it but somewhere on TBN someone posted a cool fix for tractor floor mats using recycled rubber mats from Tractor Supply or somewhere like that.

They were 4'x6'x3/4" and only $30 each. They're great for barn stalls or gym flooring/ cross fit mats. I used the same ones stamped "Made in Canada on the underside ". View attachment 547198



Just a thought.

Living out of the temp gym in the garage. Basement is framed and I am currently wiring it up on days off. Was going to install the shower base last weekend but discovered I ordered the wrong one.

 

[Gordon Gould]

My wife has been after me to put our house number up at the far end of our very long driveway. I was puttering around with that in mind today and ended up with this. I used 1/4" chain and the numbers are about 8" tall.





gg

 

[dragoneggs]

My wife has been after me to put our house number up at the far end of our very long driveway. I was puttering around with that in mind today and ended up with this. I used 1/4" chain and the numbers are about 8" tall.

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gg

I like it!

 

[daugen]

Nice job Gordon.
Did you use a lot of clamps to keep it in place, I assume horizontally, while welding?
Natural or painted?

 

[Gordon Gould]

Nice job Gordon.
Did you use a lot of clamps to keep it in place, I assume horizontally, while welding?
Natural or painted?

Thanks. I laid it flat on the table and used upright magnetic clamps to hold the straight sections and corners. I didn't realize my clamps had a lot of plastic sandwiched in them. Caught them on fire For the curved sections I moved a piece of 2- 1/2" pipe set on end along the curve as a guide. I would leave it natural but the wife wants it painted so I'll go with that.

gg

 

[Oldpath05]

This is what happens when you put a 2' pipe on a bench vice, again, this time I wont fix it until someday I get bored. Since I had this 4 year old Christmas present sitting around, decided now's the time to bolt the new vice on, of course I could only make use of one hole since the new vice has a different bolt pattern. I had to drill 3 more holes and since this is already a project, I tapped the holes instead of nut&bolt.

 

[dragoneggs]

Sooo, lemme see if I got this right; you mount your (not light) roll-around vise to your roll-around table, and somehow they BOTH become immobile....

All kidding aside, I have that exact HF bender - also don't want it bolted to the floor. HF used to offer a "bench mount" version of that, don't remember what they did for a die rack but I'm tempted to cut mine down and just mount it on a receiver tube (but I haven't "receiver-ized" my 900# weld table yet, good thing I have about 20 StrongHand weld clamps for those "temp" jobs - AND a 12,000# backhoe with 7 receivers to choose from :laughing: ) ...Steve

Yep, I am a bit surprised but it works great! I modified a HF 24in clamp, cutting down the aluminum rail to suit. The table is so dang heavy that it doesn't 'go' anywhere.

Finished both stands with casters and just need one more HF clamp now that I know I'm good to go!



I love the fact that I can wheel them up to my 4'x8' steel table and quickly clamp them or wheel them out of the way when not needed.

Someday I might come up with a more elegant connection but that likely means drilling holes in the pedestal stand and also means I need to decide where on the table cross frames I want to position the vise or 'pepper' that with holes along its length.

 

[BukitCase]

Hey OP05, nice Christmas present - goin' kinda high-falutin' on us; tapped holes an' all - next, you'll be "shinifying" your whole table and clear-coating it - (oh, wait; that would be ME )

Dragon, nice lookin' stand - your pic explains why it stays put, you forgot to mention that the TABLE casters roll east/west, and the vise stand casters roll north/south - so whenever it tries to move, at least TWO of the casters are tryin' to SKID - It's all clear to me now... ...Steve

 

[dragoneggs]

Dragon, nice lookin' stand - your pic explains why it stays put, you forgot to mention that the TABLE casters roll east/west, and the vise stand casters roll north/south - so whenever it tries to move, at least TWO of the casters are tryin' to SKID - It's all clear to me now... ...Steve

Oh that is what is going on... the science is befuddling me. . I do have to say that you are like Kreskin! Indeed the pedestal casters are North/South... how did you know! :confused3:

 

[BukitCase]

Grasshopper, the answer is obvious to one who not only looks, but will SEE - if you examine the little pedals on the vise pedestal, you will see a shallow engraving, placed there by wise oriental elves - it says, "ON" - which of course stands for Obviously North... (The OTHER little pedal is also engraved, it's an abbreviation for Opposite Field of Force)

With age comes wisdom, but only if you SEEK it (OK, 'nuff bull-crap, I just GUESSED 'cause it worked for my joke :laughing ,,,Steve

 

[daugen]

I don't think I've ever seen a vice broken like that. Wow. How much force was exerted and by what?

 

[BukitCase]

Daugen, I'll let OP05 confirm, but I think this is part of the answer - "This is what happens when you put a 2' pipe on a bench vice, again," - if you look at the picture, the vise was welded more than once; and the current break seems to be right where the HAZ stopped - then there's approximately 175 pounds times 2 feet (the pipe) for about 350 foot pounds of torque on the acme screw -

I've been known to be guilty of the same abuse, although to a lesser degree (only 'cause I REALLY don't wanna lose the particular vise - it works so well on the smallest weld table :ashamed... Steve

 

[Oldpath05]

Hey OP05, nice Christmas present - goin' kinda high-falutin' on us; tapped holes an' all - next, you'll be "shinifying" your whole table and clear-coating it - (oh, wait; that would be ME ) ...Steve

When I started prepping a new old rusty weld scared steel plate base for the new bench vice, yup I started shining up a 3/8" x 10" x 10" plate and the first thing I thought was you, I said to myself oh no, then I came back to my world and stopped grinding and sanding immediately, wow that was close.

I don't think I've ever seen a vice broken like that. Wow. How much force was exerted and by what?

How much force you ask...........Think I was getting close to turning green and ripping my shirt since this half hr job was already went over an hour, but instead of turning green this small pipe in the first pic was all it took to break my 25 year old vice, the first break was 15 years ago. I weld it again at a latter date.


Here's a couple pictures of the half hour project that I broke my vice on. On my tractor winch, the 5 new cable sliders I put on recently had over 1/4'' gap between the keyhole and slider, causing the cable and or choker chain to get pinched in there (these things only happen to me) the bolts had runned out of thread so I added more threads, put the slider on cable and tighten with impact on low, as soon as the bolt started squeezing the slider, the bolts stripped out, tried again and same thing, with 3 left I decided to put the slider in my old vice and squish it up a little, going hard so that's when I put the pipe on and then SNAP BING BANG BOOM.

So then I clamp the slider with vise grip near the bolt hole, hit it a with hammer and it flew out of the vice grip and fell on the floor, tried bigger hammer with vice grip, it flew off the bench, hit the wall and bounce around, then I thought I need something with more pressure, (wood spliter) so again clamped with vice grip near the bolt hole, (dont want to clamp where the slider rides on cable so's not to cause rough edges) I bring the wedge up a little, and the slider still flew out of the vice grips, twice, so unlike baseball I quit on two strikes and walked, nothings working, I then went to tractor store and bought $30.00 worth of 1/2" x 2" bolts, lock nuts/washers, grade 5 fine and case harden coarse thread, something gotta work, got home and tried the grade 5 fine thread first, put the impact on wound all 5 on in 5 minutes, DONE, now the keyhole in the sliders have very little play/gap, and while I was at the tractor place I looked at the new shiny Fransgaud winch like mine and those had very little gap on the sliders, like I thought they did.

 

[bigtiller]

I cobbled together a stand for a shop vacuum hose to hang on at the drill press. The base is leftover concrete that I let setup in a bucket and later drilled a hole into. Some 1/2" PVC pipe and a leftover metal dowel from Mrs.tillers flower garden makes the upright. The 90 degree clamp thingy is from a project back in the 80's. No money involved it this one, just time hunting through the junk piles.

 

[4570Man]

I worked on framing up the building I’ve been working on. Here’s the assortment of drivers I had on the job. For just driving screws into new spruce I like the little drill because it’s quieter. For removing screws especially Phillips head, driving screws into harder wood, and bigger fasteners the impact is by far the better tool. The Dewalt impact is by far the strongest one there. 5 star rating for it in my book.

 

[dragoneggs]

I worked on framing up the building I’ve been working on. Here’s the assortment of drivers I had on the job. For just driving screws into new spruce I like the little drill because it’s quieter. For removing screws especially Phillips head, driving screws into harder wood, and bigger fasteners the impact is by far the better tool. The Dewalt impact is by far the strongest one there. 5 star rating for it in my book. View attachment 550658View attachment 550659

I absolutely love my Dewalt 20v impact driver. Big power in a little package. Actually, pretty darn happy with all of my Dewalt 20v tools. Haven't played with the 60v flex battery tools but really no need for them for me.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Yep, I am a bit surprised but it works great! I modified a HF 24in clamp, cutting down the aluminum rail to suit. The table is so dang heavy that it doesn't 'go' anywhere.

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I love the fact that I can wheel them up to my 4'x8' steel table and quickly clamp them or wheel them out of the way when not needed.

I like the way that works - very clever. Not knowing much I have a question. What are the the spacer/washer/leveler things between your vise and stand table. Thanks.

gg