Wanted to pass along an idea I cooked up. I bought a junked 302 motor to build a conference table out of and came upon a slew of parts to recycle. As I stared at the parts, I thought about making them more shop useful instead of recycling in normal scrap yard terms.
I grabbed what I could for a balanced weight at the bottom and added the crankshaft as my main section. It had a great natural balance and I added a 10 inch section of pipe to the top of the crank for a custom fit to my height. Welding the 1/8" thick pipe was quite tricky to the cast crankshaft but it worked out great. I also added some support underneath through 1" solid steel tubing to support the 1/2" plate at the top.
The mini fab table can hold a great deal of weight and is easy to navigate around. My intentions for it were to work on motorcycle frames, possible grind stand or to place a shotbag on and pound out sheet metal. Quite happy with it overall and will be building another one soon.
also used 2 carpet samples at the base to muffle any banging, wabbling or scraping on the concrete floor.
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09-24-2008, 12:25 PM #1
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Crankshaft Fab table
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09-24-2008, 12:28 PM #2
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Sounds cool, but your pictures aren't working
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09-24-2008, 12:30 PM #3
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Table images
hopefully this works. First post, so I am trying to figure out how to post the images correctly
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09-24-2008, 12:31 PM #4
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Ok, all else failed try this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25467280@N08/?saved=1
its the first two photos.
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09-24-2008, 12:43 PM #5
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Looks good, are those some auto tranny parts on the base as well? Looks like part of the fluid pump, but maybe that's just the pics as i didn't see a mention of it in your first post.
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09-24-2008, 12:50 PM #6
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I was digging around and grabbed the harmonic balancer and the fly wheel. Added some more scrap steel under the base as well.
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09-24-2008, 04:33 PM #7
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09-24-2008, 04:39 PM #8
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Like the Ducati Painting- are you an Illustrator by trade?
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09-24-2008, 04:55 PM #9
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I guess I could call myself an illustrator by trade. I work in many facets of design/marketing/communications and just seem to have had a pencil stuck to my hand since birth.
here is my day to day business site:
http://ralfinoe.com/
design work pays the bills so I can build bikes on the side.
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09-24-2008, 04:58 PM #10
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thanks for posting the images as well, I appreciate it!
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