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Welding cart and small Fab table
Not long ago I built a nice, heavy duty, welding/fab table. It was a great idea with one fatal flaw. That flaw being that all horizontal surfaces in my garage tend to get filled up with crap. So my nice fab table often looked like this:
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Smaller work bench
Due to the size of The Lone Ranger, the table I had previously was not really working out well for me. So Off to the scarp pile again to get some more steel for the base: Burned it together: Then I did something stupid, managed to use my jack stands to hold my cross brace in place and trapped them :derp: I found some composite grating that I used for the lower shelf. This way there is less surface to…
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Welding / Fabrication Table
Given that I always seem to be welding and fabricating in my little garage, I decided it was time to get off the floor and onto a welding table. Off to the scrap bin to grab some material to make a frame: Started burning the legs to the frame: I got a large piece of 3/8” plate from work for the top, thankfully the table height worked out to be the exact same height as the F-250 bed so I…
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Cookie Cutter TJ Rear Tire Carrier
I’m cheap, so naturally I wound up building a tire carrier out of scarp metal rather than ponying up for a real one when the Cookie Cutter TJ outgrew its stock sized spare 🙂 I like the thought of saving weight by not dragging a spare tire around with me all the time, but I want to be self sufficient, so along comes a spare! Took some scrap to work and played around on the mill to get this: Pulled…
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The ’92 XJ’s
Through an odd twist of fate, I wound up owning two very similar 1992 Jeep Cherokee’s (XJ). The first ’92 I purchased as a commuter as I had sold off my of my commuter, a 2003 Dodge Neon. I wound up working closer to home with a new job, so fuel mileage wasn’t as big of a worry, plus with the sale of the Neon, we were able to finish paying off the wife’s car (no more car payments for…