Welding Tips and Tricks

I purchased an Everlast 256SI, which comes with a water cooler. I want to build a welding cart with a narrow set of drawings (similar to the attached picture). Anyone know where I can get a set of narrow drawers? I don't want to make my own. Thanks.

Not much out there other than the one shown. Why not modify it a bit?

These are metal and 10-3/8" wide.
http://www.leevalley.com/us/wood/page.a ... 3326,46037

I've used Lee Valley for a lot of woodworking stuff and can recommend them.

Thanks for the link John. That's what this forum is all about.

You might consider building something like this:

Thanks all. (I just noticed that I said "narrow set of drawings" in my original post - ). I did think about modifying a cheapo cart, but I'm afraid that I'll end up with a modified cheapo cart. The welder is 100 lbs and the cooler will be about 40 lbs when full. Pretty stout when compared to a Millermatic 211 or something like that. Everlast actually makes a nice, simple cart, but there's no storage for it and they wanted $400 for it*. See the pic below. I'd still have to add on for storage of rods, leads, and misc stuff.

The Lee Valley drawers might be a possibility. I like LV stuff and I never would have guessed that they sold drawers.




* when I looked at the cart again to get a picture to post, I noticed that the price dropped down to $249, which is much more reasonable. There seems to be a lot of mistakes on their website FWIW.

I think your welder won’t be 100#. Probably much closer to 60#. Coolers aren’t normally 40# either.

Perhaps a change in direction for you would be to purchase a small “work box” with drawers, then mount that on a rolling base, add shelves above it for the welder and cooler. You could likely buy the box for under $50, then build a frame to fit it in and suit your machines, and a bottle, racks and hoses wrapped with a heli-hook.

Everlast lists it at 100 lbs and UPS had it at 94 lbs. That would include all the leads, power cord, etc. The welder arrived yesterday and it was pretty heavy. UPS has the cooler at 33 lbs and 2 gallons of water/coolant is around 8 lbs.


Your idea is a good one, but I think what I might do instead is add open trays to the side of the cart...see attached dwg in process....cooler on bottom, welder on top, rod storage on the left and two trough-shaped trays on the right

Not that it matters much, but the “shipping weight” is 94#, the machine itself is only 60#. A 100# inverter would be astronomically heavy, or a floor model shop machine. My Dynasty only weighs a touch over 40#.

https://www.amazon.com/Everlast-PowerPr ... B072RDF888

I ended up making a primitive cart to simply get the welder and water cooler off the ground. Afterwards I added storage racks for the filler rod and cable storage. I went with Jody's pvc tube design for the filler rods. Because I painted the original, primitive cart, I drilled and bolted (or tapped) the new hardware on to the cart. Rather than making the rods for the cable hangers one continuous piece, I made them out of two pieces and used a small piece of square tube to splice them together. that way I didn't have to worry about being super-precise in the bending operation and I could use scrap to make the smaller parts.

Looks good wirelessG, and more important it works as intended. Now you can get to work on other (hopefully money making) projects.
Always best to be organized, makes the job easier.