pictures of homemade welding carts

[pepi]

From a hand truck too a tig cart, ruffed out, inspected by the shop Forman, mocked up waiting for weather to paint. It will be black, have a shelf under the machine .

[gsims]

I had one of the cheap h-freight welding carts for my old Lincoln WeldPack but when I got the Miller 211 it was a bit flimsy. Had some stuff laying around...wheels, casters, square tubing so simply started welding a skeleton around the existing cart. Made it sturdy and wider and way better bottle mount. Enough room on the bottom shelf for the Powermax 30 when it gets here. Not the best cart but cheap. Painted it with Rust-olem Safety Blue which matches the Miller Blue not bad. Hopefully the pictures come through...just on my phone.
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[clint738]

I had one of the cheap h-freight welding carts for my old Lincoln WeldPack but when I got the Miller 211 it was a bit flimsy. Had some stuff laying around...wheels, casters, square tubing so simply started welding a skeleton around the existing cart. Made it sturdy and wider and way better bottle mount. Enough room on the bottom shelf for the Powermax 30 when it gets here. Not the best cart but cheap. Painted it with Rust-olem Safety Blue which matches the Miller Blue not bad. Hopefully the pictures come through...just on my phone.
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Nice mod. What size bottle are you using on the cart? The height looks like its right at the limit of almost too big (too tall) but definitely a ton of gas available for long projects. With the tank looks to make a nice hood holder.

[gsims]

I'm not sure of the size of the tank but its as big as you can buy. Anything bigger is a lease and was trying to avoid that. I had a shorter one and when I picked up the new 211 they swapped me the bigger tank for the price of the extra gas only.

In fact I went in to simply refill my tank and came out with a larger tank and new welder. Funny how that happens. Tank is tall but straps down nice and tight and with the rear wheels moved back and further out very stable. And yes...good helmet holder.

[layinbeads79]

Wanted to get some feed back on my welding cart. Going to make another for a MIG machine I want to buy. Thanks!!

[layinbeads79]

This I is my first project at school for my everlast 160sth. Getting a miller 250 MIG so gotta make another cart. Can't wait!!

[gsims]

Wanted to get some feed back on my welding cart. Going to make another for a MIG machine I want to buy. Thanks!!

Very nice job on the cart. It looks like not only a stand for the welder but also a small weld table and turn table. My only concern would be welding sparks falling from the work surface onto the welder but that's minor and a simple shield would fix that.

[halojumper]

Its got a "home", rides its spot behind the bench, parked in this format for years and is super handy, made 1000's and thousands of welds like a pit stop over the years and rasy to roll right over to the hoist for car work. You can see in the 3rd pic I screw a sheet to enclose the drawer and create a shelf.
It was a cart for some kind of instrument, all custom aluminum

Looks like an old Tektronix O-scope cart
nice find.

[halojumper]

thanks for keeping this thread going... I need to make a new cart
and there is a wealth of ideas to be found within.

decisions decisions....

[pepi]

Finished the hand cart conversion, finally got the weather I needed to paint it.


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