Well, I was going to go to Harbour Freight and buy me a cheap ol' welding cart but then I started looking around the garage and realized, I had more than enough crap laying around. Who else builds their own stuff like this? I would think a bunch of doit yourselfers like yourselves there'd be ton's. Actually I just wanted to show off my new welder...
This was covered a dozen times or so already, some creative ideas out there. we used some medical equipment cart we found in the trash behind our shop and a hand truck. <!-- / message --><!-- attachments -->
Nice work, Man. You just saved yourself around eighty bucks that you can now spend on car parts!! Deluxe
My cart was my first project after purchasing my millermatic 175.... we only bought the wheels, everything else was scrap...
I just gave haircut to a shopping cart that someone abandoned behind my shop the other day. Works killer!
If you shop a little it's not hard to find somebody with a low welder price and free cart thrown in. The lincoln cart is a POS though and the very first thing the welder should be used for.
I feel that creative ideas should be revisted every once in a while. Keeps the mind going ya' know. Just nice to see what others might be working on besides their car project.
There's a Tech post that I posted a picture of mine in...I gotta find that. It had three levels, 2 machines (a MIG and TIG), two bottles, and an accessories shelf.
Yep, I built my own as well. Sure it takes a little longer to make the thing, but once its done it will last alot longer!
...bed frames work killer for welding carts...you can pick em up used at any Goodwill or Salvation Army. just cut up that angle iron and weld up -marty
One thing I learned when I built my torch cart, is to think ahead when making the handles. Just because they look "right" when the cart is standing up-right, dosen't mean they will be comfortable when you tilt it back to roll it around!
I built a scrap metal cart as well. Used an old stabilizer bar off a '49 Chevy cut in half for the handles and half of a coil spring on each side for the front supports. Used a gate hinge w/ strap metal for the shielding gas cylinder support. Works great and looks like crap - just the way I like it..... Problem is I used all my gas making the cart and now I can't do any real welding.....
I can't weld worth a shit with my little 110volt wire feed unit; totally dissatisfied with it. Patrick
Flux core or shielding gas? The gas makes a big difference. I can actually half-ass weld old sheet metal w/ the gas. Maybe it's just that we live in Houston.
when i bought my last welder the sales guy was sorta pushing the cart. i looked at him with my best confused look and said "isn't that supposed to be the first project of any new welder?" he laughed and knew i got it and ended his pitch.
Mine was left next the the train station by Germans as they ran from the Ruskies....... It just sat in the scrapyard that grew up around it. I found a piece of ''landing mat'' there too.......
I found some old bed frame rails (angle) in the rafters of my garage, and welded up a bottle cart. Also cut up an old bicycle rack with the rubber coated hooks to wind up the hoses.
My garage is in a really really bad neighborhood. The day we bought our welder, we caught a homeless guy going through the dumpster that our landlord allows us to use. We took his cart, made some changes...presto...called in our garage, " Homeless Racing "
I've made a few over the years in different workshops I've worked in. Normally the four wheeled cart type for plasma cutters and smaller migs that aren't self supporting. This pik here is of my cart for an inverter tig. This style is pretty common in NZ for dragging your tig around for site work. Easy to go up and down stairs, a comfortable walking height and it keeps your welder up out of any water.
Here's a tech write-up I did when making my cart: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=215885
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