engine trolley...

[andym]

Is it cheap and scabby of me to have thrown a couple of pairs of skateboard wheels onto a plank to move an engine around?

I was even too cheap to use screws to hold the wheels on... I just nailed them on

Although to be honest I want to get a shopping trolley and hack that up.

It made me think... what cheap modifications have you made to make your job a bit easier?

My second modification was a spark plug key, there was a little lip inside the spark plug housing that wouldn't let me get a socket down far enough, so I spent about half an hour with the grinder thinning down the edges, wish I'd done it before I bought the new one hoping it would be thinner.

[dextersaurus]

I've got an old hacked up shopping trolley i use for moving heavy stuff around. also got an old complete trolley which i'll be welding together into another one.

Great things

Best one i've ever done has to be my home-made axle stands, made of blocks of wood.

They look a bit like this.

https://www.survivalandsafetyschool.co.uk/i/Craft%20Materials/curly_birch.jpg

gorgeous, eh.



Dunc

[Walloper]

[dextersaurus]

[andym]

I have to admit it is a nice block of wood.

Just out of curiosity (I know rivers are full of them), where would one get a trolley from? Pay a quid then get it back by smashing the lock off afterwards? Ask the local yoots to pinch one an give em a bag of smack (or whatever the scrotes are into these days), or just give em a smack

[dextersaurus]

[Walloper]

[Walloper]

[andym]

I could try luring one away from the shop... anyway I have a local homebase and they have them nice fancy flat trolleys *drool*, I might have to don the ninja gear one night... use my £1 sized token then drag it kicking and screaming all the way home... if I get stopped by the police at least I can stand on it and say it's a new style of scooter....

[Dazbo666]

In the garage I have a scaffolding plank (retrieved from a skip) used as a really sturdy shelf for my power tools
...The panels of a former computer desk are now on the garage walls as tool racks
...The shelving from an old living room cabinet is attached to the garage roof rafters as a storage rack for strips of spare timber - which includes the wooden slats from two single beds
...and I used one of those slats as the raw material for a DIY storage rack for my soldering kit - and another one is a storage rack for my pressure washer attachments
...I'm sure I could continue with more...


I'd considered getting a trolley, or at least the wheels/base of one to make a workshop/mechanics seat too
... and I have plans to make an old brake disk into a stool seat, with the legs made from an old bed frame
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[dextersaurus]

[andym]

I've got plenty of shelving in the garage... not one piece of wood matches another though.... storage has never really been a problem for me. As for tool racks, rough guess is I have a 8'x30' (total guess there), tool rack... most people would call it the floor though. I find it's easier to find the right size spanner (or whatever) in a few paces rather than pulling every bloody thing out of the tool boxes, dumping it all on the floor, cursing a lot, realising that the tool I was looking for is still on the work bench, having to put everything back in just to do it all again a couple of minutes later.

[Alpha-9]

[_Iain_]

Creative engineering at its finest
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[DrDonnyBrago]

My gf goes mental when I bring shit I find home.

Recent find was a K+N induction kit for some chav car I found in the woods near a sink estate. The metal elbow pipe bends and bits of silicone hose etc were too alluring to leave behind so I took the whole thing.

I have a (big) box of bits scavenged from all sorts, recent additions are some motors and bits of sheet metal from a printer, some mesh from an old air filter, MDF from a desk and bits of plate steel from a TV stand.

My bike currently has bits of printer, bed and gear knob I found in it.

[Dazbo666]

I much prefer "creative engineering" and "an eye for treasures" than being called a grandad.... although I understand the comparison
- I guess the creative engineering gene must run in our family
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1st bike (Sept'06 - May'10) : 1991 GPZ500S / Current bike (since Nov 2009) : 2003 Suzuki Bandit 600N
Word of the day : DILLIGAF

[Rogerborg]

I did once winch the gutted shell of a Mk II escort up a long steep driveway on 2 wheels, a trolley jack and a skateboard: should have thought that one through before I took the rear axle off, granted.
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