Oxy Acetylene Cart | JIMBO'S GARAGE

[Music] welcome to Jimbo's garage well this is the current situation with my oxy-acetylene cart setup that I have right here about 25-30 years ago I purchased what would be just the cart some Victor gauges a hose cutting torch some tips a sparkler miscellaneous kit to get started with oxygen acetylene the only thing I didn't get with it were balls about those separately and at the time I bought 50 cubic foot bottles which are much smaller and shorter than my current situation the problem that I have with this cart right here and it seems to work good everything is good but it is horribly unbalanced so it's hard it's hard to maneuver as soon as you pull it back it wants to fall back heavy this way or if you lighten it up a little bit it wants to fall it's just very unbalanced very difficult to move around although it's not like I'm rolling around too far in my shop right here but still it's been a problem that I've had since I've had this thing for 30 years and I've always wanted to change it one way shape or form so finally that day has come and I'm going to show you what we're going to do to modify this cart to make it much more earn an ergonomic much more functional at least for me okay well here it is check this out this is an old abandoned hand truck I actually found this in the trash somebody was gonna throw this away it's obviously missing the tire and wheels some issues with it I don't know some things seem to be broken or or misplaced and so when I saw this I thought this is a perfect opportunity to make the cart that I've been looking for for a long time one thing I like about this one right here this a little bit different than most hand trucks and that's making me leading the believe this is a little bit older than the current ones is the base itself is super wide it's wider than most as a matter of fact it's actually about a half inch wider than my existing card is right so that's going to accommodate the bottles a little bit more of course the balls I have now currently are over 126 cubic feet bottles both of them and I originally started if you remember I said about 50 cubic foot bottles so the bottles are more than twice the size they are now a lot more bigger a lot more heavier and this is going to accommodate them much better one of the things that we're also that we're going to do to this thing is also put a set of chains on the bottom half and near the top so I'll be able to secure the bottles in here a lot a lot more better and I'm sure I will go to the Harbor Freight or someplace and I'll get a set up 9 or 8 or 10 inch tires whatever this thing came with and we'll be able to get those on there and be like brand-new one of the other things I'm going to do possibly is make some sort of a catch-all box very similar to the cart that that they had before and maybe that's gonna hold the cutting torch miscellaneous tips Park liner and stuff like that so anyways I'm looking forward to get started on this project it's going to be a big improvement to the shop I mean they don't really have a place for those bottles I'm constantly moving them around from one place to the other to make things a lot more easier it's starting [Music] is cut off these little eighth inch thick by maybe one inch straps flat bar stock that was attached to the to the hand truck here you know they might have had some sort of rubber protecting deal on it to maybe help with moving furniture I've seen those before in the past but nevertheless I didn't need them and yeah on this particular cart so I needed to get those cut off and since I got those cut off we ground everything nice and flat so the first thing I want to do is get some bottle separators if you will so I'm just cleaning off the area of the paint right here one on either side in one in the middle and I've cut these out on my plasma table this is just some eighth inch thick material right here that it's just going to separate the the bottles and keep them from coming off the cart so once I just got everything ground off a little bit of tuning and sanding right here and just tacked these singing in in place right here I don't need a lot of a lot of weld right here you know I've just put maybe you know one inch long beads every couple of inches that's all you really need there's no need to weld everything completely solid all the way out there's not going to be any kind of structural value here the only thing I'm trying to do here is to keep the bottles from from sliding off the cart so now this is the the actual bracketry that's going to be holding the bottles in on the lower part in the upper part now I'm using this similar design from the existing cart that I have right here this is just some two inch by three sixties flat bar stock once I got everything all measured out to get over there to the to the press and and got everything all bent and into shape now this is some axle some 8 8 inch by 8 inch thick that's kind of hard to say round tubing that I had leftover from a project right here and this is what I'm going to be using to to actually hold the bottles in place so I use this on on a couple of torch lead holders from previous carts that I've made and and they seem to work pretty good so it's the same principle a thing that we're using right here I'm using the HTP 875 SC plasma cutter here this is the handheld version this thing works really well nice and clean this little wax pencil right here look at how cleaning that thing works of course the metal is a little hot melted its way right on there but make for some pretty good markers just cut these things in half and you see the idea here these are going to kind of hold that the tanks in place is one thing that here that I thought I struggled with was getting the dross off this and getting everything where I wanted it nice and smooth I first thought I would take it over to the burr King clean it up that way you know I put a nice fresh belt on here everything was nice and sharp but you know because of the odd shape and design of this curvature of this plate it was just hard to do that so I took it over to the vise got a flap disc on a grinder and even that was kind of a struggle then I clamped it to my welding table and just the angles and everything getting in there to get it all done was was a bit of a challenge but ultimately you know got all four pieces done and there they are you know just some final cleaning up on the burr King right here and it's time to start placing these things what I want to do right here is write like you can see that that's going to hold the tank together and and then this is some separators that that I'm gonna put between the two curved pieces of tubing right there and this is going to actually hold the chain you know in place for both sides top and bottom you know little quarter-inch drill really close to the edge I've got a quick link that's going to be going in there and I just wanted to be sure that everything was gonna be able to fit pretty good you can see that that's the plan right there once everything was adjusted properly I went ahead and just tacked everything into place you know when you do stuff like this you know it's a good idea to tack everything into place to be sure everything is nice and square before you go ahead and weld everything out you know I've learned this the hard way over the years you know I've you know starting out it just started welding and welding and welding and you know things get tweaked but you know you get everything tacked into place everything stays where it needs to be then you can go ahead and weld it all out so that's what I did right here so everything is done this is here a 1/4 inch grinding wheel that I'm just cutting a groove on either side of this and this is what the chain is gonna be sitting in it's some pretty thick chain so I want it needs to be able to slide in there and so this is a nice quarter inch wide at least maybe more groove on the inside then just took the elf flap disc we're gonna clean things up a little bit alright we're just tacking these things into place you see I got a couple of two by fours it helped me hold it nice and flat and that was my base to go ahead and get the top piece all leveled from as well once I got everything were needed to be I did everything I could to get in there and some of these places kind of awkward to weld this what's obviously is the easy part right here but I wanted to get a couple welds on the inside and I was able to get that done this right here is their last piece that I had and I'm trying to think of a good way to have the hose reel on this and I thought well why not just use the remnants of this the last little piece of this eight inch tubing that I had this was kind of wide here it's about three and a half inches wide and it's kind of perfect the hose is about 25 feet long and you know it's a pretty lengthy piece of hose and I just wanted to be sure that it was wide enough to be able to support it now these are the ears that I'm going to put on there now I did this similar to the other torch lead holders that I've done in my previous carts but I only cut them about two inches tall these are about four and a half inches tall I had a little bit of problem with my twenty five foot hose not staying on the torch lead so I wanted to be sure that these right here we're going to be tall enough and I wasn't gonna have any issues with the hose wanting to fall off just cleaning everything up around and everything up on the bird king you know that nice sharp blade cuts everything like butter and this may not be the safest way to do this but this worked out perfectly this is the bottom wheel of the burking right here and need to remove some metal of this on this particular on these years so they'll fit on the radius part of the tubing and this worked out really good and then two years they're on the back and then three in the front and I've gum spaced staggered so they're not stacked up on top of each other again I just wanted to tack everything into place everything stayed nice and straight and just got some welds on there and operating off the HTTP profiles 200 right here using some 30,000 Swire's what I have into that machine all the time works really well and see I'm just you know putting those welds in there and then once I did that I wanted to take the grinder and kind of soften up all that all the welds and the edges I just didn't want any chance of the hose hanging up on any sharp edges of the weld so that's all I was doing just cleaning this up and then once I decided the location or war was going to go I just tacked it into place and I was really pleased the way that that this turned out on this right here I you know I've just built things as I go and you just kind of hope that things work out the way you're hoping and in this case so this is pretty good this is what I was talking about you know trying to get in different angles to get things welded in there but ultimately I got it done now I talked about possibly making some sort of a catch-all box for this well I decided against that you know I'm gonna go ahead for a couple of the couple of uh you know that tips I have and the torches they have I don't plan on this thing leaving my shop so I'll put those in the drawer but what I am gonna make right here is a couple of spark lighter holders I thought that this would be kind of compact I happen to have this rectangular tubing sitting around its perfect size to hold the spark lighters and I thought it'd be a great idea to to put one on either side and like I say they don't stick out it's not going to be a problem the the the box I talked about was going to be in the way of the hose reel holder anyway and I'm an awkward place I didn't really have any room for it so this is the best option for me there tucked in there really nice and actually looks pretty good just going to clamp them on either side right on the top part of the rack and you can see I'm talking about the kind of just conformed to the rack saying they're nice and clean nice and tight and they look pretty good right there and then spark lighters they fit right in and there it is just before paint I got everything just the way I want it and looks looks pretty good I'm pretty pleased the way it turned out so far and there's the finished product after I got some Harbor Freight tires some wheels for it got the chain on it got a nice coat of paint and [Music] there it is complete yeah it's perfect the thing actually worked just the way I was hoping it would be I hope you guys enjoyed this video don't forget to follow me on Instagram and check out my website at Jimbo's garage comm thanks for watching go free to rate comment and subscribe for more videos see you next time Jimbo's garage

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Length: 13min 6sec (786 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 03 2018