Easy Fab Projects 4- Fabricating some DIY Shop Stands From Mostly Scrap Fabrication 101

you ready [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] welcome back to fabrication 101 folks it's great to have you guys back out in the shop with me today uh we're gonna be working on another little kind of shop project thing something i need for the shop some tools that i need um and we're gonna be making sir i'm gonna be trying to reproduce this jack star this shop stand welding stand work stand whatever you want to call it um i've got three different adjustments or i guess two different adjustments here i've got a gross adjustment here so i've and i've actually got these holes drilled at two inch spaces but putting this extra hole here at an inch gives me an inch of adjustment on the post and then i went ahead and added a threaded uh three quarter fine thread nut or bolt to the end of that thing so that i could have some very fine adjustment make this thing almost perfectly level if i can um so i'm gonna try to be building these uh stands almost entirely out of scrap because i've got a scrap material laying around over here stuff uh left over from project stuff i've recovered from things uh so we're gonna try to make this as much out of scrap material and use as little new material as possible so uh let's get started we've got a bunch of tubing to cut uh a lot of some some coping to do and quite a bit of welding but this should be a pretty fun project so follow along i hope you guys enjoy [Music] all right all these pieces are cut out you can see some of these got uh quite a bit of stuff on them um these three pieces are actually uh part of the old uh seat mount in the old roll cage that came out of my bronco uh so i'm gonna do obviously quite a bit of cleanup on these pieces but um i'd rather use this stuff up than use up some nice new metal although i do have to use one piece of good material because that piece is going to slide inside of this piece here and that's going to be part of my stand so right so here's a quick uh a little tip on when it comes to grinding stuff like this there's certain ways you want to do it because you don't want to create um low spots in your material so for this for this particular one we want to take the grinding wheel and we want to stay on top of the metal and go this way you don't want to you want to try to avoid going across it like this because what happens is you as you fall off on this side you create a low spot if you as you fall off on this side you're going to create a low spot in the material and eventually what you'll end up this will stay high and you'll have this kind of wave shape in the top of the material so you always want to try to go this way so you stay on top not this way i might talk about so you just want to try and go stay on top of the material that you're trying to remove as much as possible for like this one uh this is gonna be like the opposite so this one you're gonna go this way on the material uh and again you don't wanna go across it uh because same thing's gonna happen you're gonna create a low spot on either side and you end up with a wave in the material so it's important to keep your grinding wheel movement uh the same way so that anyway i got a lot of grinding to do a lot of cleanup to do on some of these pieces uh like this piece i'm gonna take advantage of this end because i do need to notch these tubes and i'm going to notch this one here that way i don't have to worry about getting rid of that part it's just going to make my life a little easier but i do need to clean this up this up in a couple other spots so [Music] so [Music] all right all the pieces are well most all the pieces are cut out now uh now i got to do is lay out some holes uh and i got to drill a bunch of holes so i went ahead and dragged my drill press out here on the table uh hopefully make this part a little bit easier all right so we've got to lay out a bunch of holes in these pieces here uh first thing i got to do is get a straight line on here a lot of times i just like to use my my good old speed square to do this kind of stuff so i just lay it on there and i can lay out my mark what i'm going to do is i'm actually going to put two holes in this piece and this is like the main collar that this piece is going to slide in and out of to create my stand i'm going to put my first hole at an inch right and then i put another hole at two inches and the reason i'm doing this is if i lay out a series of holes on this piece at two inches having this one at one inch space actually gives me a basically a one inch space on this piece without having to drill holes every one inch so i can drill them every two inches on this piece uh and it makes it a lot easier on us so go ahead and move that piece out of the way so i can go ahead and get this one laid out i just grabbed a scrap piece of angle iron here so i can lay out my give myself a nice straight line to work from on that piece and then i'm gonna i'll go ahead and start at two inches on this one uh because i plan on putting an insert in here that's going to be threaded uh that's going to allow the top part an adjustment to be so i go every two inches or pretty close to it still gives me two inches of piece down inside of the sleeve once they're drilled so i'm now gonna go ahead and get these center punched and put them in my drill so i can go ahead and get these drilled so here's a quick little trick on how to get things like perfectly well as close as i can without using any kind of a milling machine i've got this centering drill bit in here these are nice and solid self-centering should be able to drill me a nice straight hole but how do i get my piece of pipe nicely centered and right now i'm not concerned about my marks i just want to get the pipe centered underneath the drill bit so one thing i usually i can do is i and i usually use a small metal ruler for this but um take something like this hacksaw blade and you put it down on there and see how it the blade is not level but if i push this thing over just a little bit the blade will come down a little bit more i can't tell if it's quite level this is kind of hard to do with um one hand looks to me like it needs to come this way just a little bit and there we go pretty pretty level looks pretty close that looks still a little bit off but uh but you get the idea once you can use both hands to be a little bit easier but that's a pretty quick easy way to make sure you're drilling right in the center of that tube then you go ahead and clamp down your your drill press vice to hold things in place for you so we're going to go ahead and get some holes drilled [Music] [Music] all right we got all our our pieces are all cleaned up and cut out uh unfortunately um i wasn't able to use the original piece of scrap tube that i cut out for this i think those tubes had a bunch of little tabs welded to them in places and i think what happened is the inside of the tube swelled a little bit and it caused it to make the where this piece uh would not slide nicely through these uh so that we can have our adjustment here so anyway we've got these done uh the next thing we need to do is figure out how to mark this tube on three different ways or divide it into three parts uh so that we can lay out our legs as they go around in three spots so it's actually not that difficult all you really need is a compass um something to mark on and a way to measure uh and it can be done pretty simply and i'm gonna show you how to do that right now all right so the real simple way to do this is take your compass take your measuring device uh we gotta figure out where the halfway point is of our tube uh we know it's an inch and three quarter tubing so uh half of that inch and three quarters is uh seven eighths of an inch or pretty close to or exactly that but we're going to set this as close as we can to that i'm going to maybe go just a hair wider just to make marking a little bit easier so we got that mark simply enough you're just going gonna mark your draw your circle hopefully you guys will be able to see my my silver streak marker here on my on the cardboard probably would be better if i actually had a pencil in this but um so anyway there's my my circle okay um and then all you really got to do is you've got to mark a top and bottom so we'll use our ruler again we'll try to go as straight through our center as we can and the mine's a little off just because i went a little crazy with my point there but that should be pretty close and then what we're going to do is you take your compass again now you put your center point down here uh and give yourself a mark on one side uh and then turn it over and give yourself a mark on the other side and now those where those points intersect is now your your three dimensions or your three points around the circle uh pretty straightforward um the easiest way i think to go ahead and mark transfer this to the tube is going to be to take one of my center lines or just create a new center line on the tube and line that up with the one mark and then all i got to do is come around to the other side and i can transfer with a sharpie my new marks and then all i got to do is use my speed square here to carry those marks up higher uh so that i can go ahead and line up the legs as they go around the tubes [Music] [Music] all right it's all tacked together looks pretty good i'm pretty happy with the way that came together um i'm glad that this tube is big enough that i don't have to notch these two so they don't run into each other um should weld out pretty nicely got good nice fit up on all the the connections all the joints um my only concern is that i don't want to overheat this this tube uh to the point where it shrinks on the inside and then the this the the post doesn't slide down in there but uh so far so good so let's go ahead and get her welded up so so [Music] all right it's all welded up uh it came out pretty good i did did have to do some cleanup inside of the tube uh so that this piece would slide up and down nicely which it oops the wrong way which it does now um so the next thing i'm going to do is i got to build the top part and i don't want to just put a flat plate on here uh what i'm going to do is i want to add some more adjustment to this point like a fine adjustment here because these will be my what do you call a gross adjustment or big adjustment and up here i want to have a fine adjustment so what i'm going to do is i got this uh chunk of old tie rod end i think this might actually be the one that i had to shorten when i redid the front suspension on the bronco anyway this is tapped to three quarter fine thread uh and fortunately enough it slides right down inside of this tube uh so what i'm gonna do is cut it down so that it's just short enough so that this or the top hole doesn't hit it um and then i'll get that welded in there and then i can take this three quarter fine thread bolt that threads in there and i can make a top to it and actually what's kind of cool about this idea here is that i can actually make uh get other bolts and make different tops uh if i needed them for different applications so i'm got a project coming up in the future where that's what i'm building these for uh so i'm gonna put a piece of i think the square tube on here uh maybe six or eight inches wide uh so i have a nice big t shape on the top of this piece so uh first things we're gonna do is get this cut down a little bit um because it's a little bit big and i it's actually nice enough i don't know i have to figure out which side the threads are i might have to clean the threads up a little bit but uh we're gonna cut down so it fits in there and then we'll get the make the top piece for this so so so so so so all right last step i got that all welded up came out pretty nice uh put that up there and hopefully i can get it to start without dropping it on the floor it's like it's in there and it's in there so this is going to be the the fine adjustment for this thing this gives me a lot of room i got two inches here so i should be able to put this within a pretty good range uh and then be able to adjust it so again we've got multiple points here but with the hole here and the two inch spacing on this tube uh it means that we've got one inches here one inch here not one inches um but this has got two inches so i've got a lot of adjustment here it should work really well so anyway uh came out pretty good um the next thing to be honest is i need to make a few more of these because one of these stands is not going to be enough for the project i've got coming up uh so let's try this well there's two i think i need a couple more so let's try it again so that's gonna do it for this episode of fabrication 101 i hope you guys enjoyed this hope you learned something uh did i have to tig weld these no i probably could have mig weld them up i definitely could have mig welded them all together but i was using this as an excuse to work on my tig welding skills uh and improve and i feel like i did uh so that was kind of my goal not just to build these stands uh but to give myself an excuse to practice uh and get something functional out of it so i do have a project for these coming up hopefully that'll be starting here pretty soon i'm still waiting on a few more things to finalize before i can start working on that stuff but i built these where are they built these for a reason i didn't build them just to have stands i do need them for a project coming up so hopefully you guys will see that in the next episode or one of the next episodes of fabrication 101 in the meantime make sure you like comment subscribe if you haven't done so already and as always uh thank you for watching uh this episode of fabrication 101 and in the meantime do me do yourself a favor do me a favor and go build something

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Id: utoUkd9Akuo

Length: 22min 43sec (1363 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 19 2022