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Made a cart for my new machines. It was all scrap I found by a dumpster. I wanted a cart that held both bottles and machines side by side.


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I like it! I like the fact that you used expanded so your shelves don't become dust catchers. Nice work!

Nicely done! +1 on the expanded metal.

I'd been thinking about a side-by-side cart, and now seeing it done I think I'll go ahead and do it that way. Thanks for the inspiration.

Larry

And free metal. What a great cart.

Hey the cart looks great.
Those baby bottles are going to get old in a hurry unless you dont weld very much,
they'll be empty all the time

+1 on the bottles. I get tired of filling my 250cuft bottle.

At least the car doesn't have a deck over the bottle rack, so the owner can load up a larger bottle when or if he decides that the little one is better used as a backup, or just trades it in toward a larger capacity cylinder.

I have always kept my eyes open on the local CraigsList, and found a 250cf bottle for $100 from a welder who was selling off all of his equipment.
It barely cost more to fill it than it did to fill my 125cf, so definitely money ahead to have as big as you can manage to get, as long as you can handle the weight and size.

All that aside, the cart looks well built and functional. What more can you really ask for, especially when you are working with material that didn't cost you anything?

I just noticed the Harbor Freight FCAW machine on your shelf. You took a giant step up in quality.

Pic 2 in the background, turkey fryer with dutch oven on top , what you use it for?
that was my first set up for melting wheel weights into ingots for casting bullets

I saw two fridges with opposing doors. Guessing this is so you can grab two beers at once . One from each fridge

There is a Crescent wrench on the black pelican case...is it a real Crescent?

Too funny, I always look at the background in photos too. And as long as we're bustin, I saw the boxes and whatnot piled up against the doors marked "Do not block".

Kidding, of course!

Nice looking cart!

I saw the blue trash can with a trash bag, is that a lite duty 2mil thick bag?

Oh, and nice welding cart and machines...

Damn you guys for hi-jacking this thread.

Regardless of fridges, bins or various background objects, that is indeed a great cart and you get extra cool points for being resourceful enough to use scrap materials...yet still create a really decent result.

As others have mentioned though, those are tiny bottles. Perfect for portability but won't last long in regular use. I have finally settled on a bottle size that lasts me more than a couple months - it is so tall it comes up almost to my shoulder, and I am six feet two inches.




Kym

Nice cart and great job giving new life to old steel...

Craig B