I also love seeing creative uses for old car parts. Here are a couple projects I did back in my bachelor days. Coffee table is quite simple. Shortened Model A axle tubes with flathead connecting rods bolted on, glass on top. Coat 'tree' is a Model A wheel with Model A torque tube / banjo w/ bolts to hang coats on.
Couldn't get along without my model A bells with the axles in backwards and some short pieces of 3 inch channel welded to the axle gears. It's what holds my rear ends while we weld on the brackets. Has been used for 100's of rear ends. Also have a couple more I use just for stands. They're all adjustable.
No pictures sorry In about 1966 I "damaged" the transmission in my 63 Fairlane, my mother used the damaged cluster gear in a dried flower arrangement and won something for it at a flower show. A few days ago I told my wife about that and have wondered since what happened to it. I remember those old axle housing being used and always wanted a pair and now I am half afraid to use even good jackstands.
I use an old truck axle with a brake drum bolted on (backwards) as a stand for my bench grinder. I welded a piece of tube to a plate that the grinder bolts to. A 3/8" bolt locks it to the axle shaft to keep it stationary. I'll grab a pic later.
I use old flathead flywheels as bases for grinder stands. Once those cheap Harbor Freight stands are bolted to one, the grinder won't walk and they also seem to dampen the vibration a bit as well. I'll try to post a pict.
All I have laying around at the moment is two sets of 90's Camaro and Firebird wheels. I don't want to make anything out of that stuff! Probably end up in the trash. My dad made several stands for garage tools out of old torque convertors, and brake drums.
Hose reel, pulled it out of the Sonoma dump when I saw the guy next to me launch it. That's Goodyear rubber wrapped around it.
My local "old" amusement park has a LOT of items made out of older car parts. One ride is clearly driven by an old truck differential. I love going there, and am always spotting something else thats been repurposed from life under a car
I have my dads jack stands made from model A axle tubes. I can remember them all the way back to early 60s.
An old base from a diner stool and a stude steering wheel makes a cool end table . The problem is the wife kicked it out of the house house a while back.
I saw a Buick straight 8 block on a porch, with 8 pots in the bores. People would get puzzled after counting to 6, as the straight 8 was a weird one here.
I like those grinder stands. My grinder stand is a Studebaker flywheel and crankshaft with a steel plate on the snout, with my grinder bolted to it. I would take a pic, but it's too crowded in by other tools. Sent from my SM-G981V using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Ten lug school bus rear brake drum for the base of my shrinker stretcher stand. Thinking about getting a couple more for the bead roller and grinder. Solid, doesn't move in use, and easy to tip and roll to move or get a dolly under it.
Between the plywood and the garage doors, that couldn't be the marks of an old filled in pit, could it?
My brother in law and I make wine every year. This grape press was his grandfathers. and is old as shit. The lever is a Model T driveshaft and the "plate" under the ratchet is a Model T ring gear. I love using this thing. Even more interesting is that sometime in the distant past somebody dropped the ratchet and the casting broke. The ancient gas weld repair to the iron casting is awesome. The bead is as thick as your little finger. Andy
Big truck wheels work better, but this makes a nice compact patio fire pit. Sent from my iPhone using H.A.M.B.
My dad was big on using his cast steel drums from his bottom dumps when they were worn out for grinder/vice, etc stands.
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