What OT crap are you working on

Now that one is a nice van.

 

I have restored a lot of travel trailers in my adult life What do you suppose they were thinking when they put a double sink on that little tiny counter?
I'm shocked they didn't add a garbage disposal lol
Great upgrade In my opinion.

 

My off topic project started today with a hundred mile drive each way to the beautiful San Diego area to go get this "beauty".
The paint is even worse in person I think. What's crazy is the drawers open like they are new and it even has keys and once I got there it had a few snap-on bearing pullers (That are probably from the 1940s or '50s but I'm not complaining quality is quality and I will keep those), It also came with and a handful of really junky Chinese screwdrivers.
I'm not going to go crazy on it overly restoring it since it is a 20 year old Chinese toolbox but I am however going to rough it up a little bit maybe polish the handles a tad bit. My goal is in my really crowded to car garage is to get rid of the really junky Craftsman desk (If you pulled the drawers a little hard they fall out) and one of the smaller vintage Craftsman tool boxes. I am dreading that part of the process because I have so much stuff in there that needs to be musical chairs around. I will post pictures when it is completed again it's just getting a coat of cheap Rust-Oleum paint I'm not sure if I'm going to gun it or aerosol it.

 

Okay here is the completed result I did it with rattle can rustoleum regal red. I didn't go too crazy detailing it but it definitely is usable now without looking like a county fair portable toilet.
This actually took me a little longer than I thought it would I think I got about 12 hours into it. I should have used the spray gun I think it would have saved me 20 bucks and been a lot quicker without zebra stripes but overall I am okay with the end result. Now the fun part I got to reorganize the garage to get this in there..

 

Is that an Arbor Freight box???... The name U.S. General sounds very familiar...

 

It is.
I currently have three Craftsman tool boxes in the garage and a Craftsman workbench I'm trying to combine stuff to make a little more room. This box is quite a bit bigger and It's ball bearing roller and fairly heavy gauge steel. I am hoping to get rid of the desk and one craftsman toolbox which should give me 3-4 ft of wall space.
I can't afford one of those giant 6 ft long by 6 ft tall by 2ish feet deep tool boxes made by the tool truck companies and I refuse to buy brand new Chinese So for now I figure this is somewhat of an upgrade and once I sell off the Craftsman box and workbench I should be money ahead, never in my life would I have thought I would be restoring a 2005ish toolbox.

 

1988 Samurai - everything is modified except internals on the engine. It just sits, unfortunately.

 

Got the Autolite sign on the top of this cabinet about 8-9 years ago. Got the cabinet it goes on last weekend from a local antique store that is closing. Had to make one door handle.

 

one of my current projects.

 

Working on the carb on a 2-cycle post hole digger/auger...does that count ?!
Left it yesterday and it wouldn't crank even with starting fluid in the plug hole.
Go back today and it runs-like-a-top with just ONE pull !!
(I still say those two-cycle engines have a certain amount of 'Black-Magic' in 'em !)
6sally6

 

Seems as it must be Harley powered .

 

I despise small engine two strokes (That excludes outboards and motorcycles), I've had more bad luck with small engines that are two stroke, It seems you get about 40 to 60 hours on them and they start having issues and then the parts although not expensive are pricey enough that it's hard to justify fixing them versus buying another one...