Alright CJ, I made it to the metal supplier this afternoon to retrieve the new material: storage rack 38.jpg That is one 12' stick of 2" x 2" x 1/8" tubing and 3 10' sticks of 1.5" x 1.5" x 3/16" angle. Unfortunately the wife-eee needed to make a grocery run tonight aft...

I have and sometimes need to use a 50' extension cord as well. It's one of those beefy RV power cables. Damn thing weighs about 60# but works a treat. Ah yes, I'm familiar. I'll bet it does indeed work for ya. The 6 gauge cable isn't heavy-heavy, but it lets you know it's there. I like running the ...

Whoops! Yes it’s run of the mill carbon steel that’s been zinc plated. I’m using my Millermatic 130 to stick it all together. Got some very helpful pointers from the good people here. Took my beads from shameful to not embarrassing. :) Ah ok, well I hope you're grinding off the zinc prior to weldin...

DavidR8 wrote:Thanks! I’m having a lot of fun.
It’s 1” x 1/16” wall square tubing.

And what is the material? Good ol' carbon steel? It looks too clean and shiny for that. What process are you using? I seem to recall mention in your thread of MIG, but it wasn't clear (to me).

Keep up the work!

Ahhh yes, that makes complete sense to me now. For some reason I imagined it loaded up with various and sundry sheet metal, etc perched over the car. Then trying to move it and a wheel catches a pebble and the weight of everything torques the leg and suddenly a bad time is had by all :o Ah yes, tha...

All's well that ends well. The gusset welds came together despite some less-than-ideal fitup in one or two cases and I handled the rod even better tonight than last night. Heck, I even used some 7018 to complete a few additional tacks in order to consume the entire rod! I ground all welds down, 'cep...

Well tonight after work was filled with more of the little stuff: welding the outer gusset seams, the feet, the diamond plate panels, grinding, primer, etc. I opted to just tack the diamond plate into position in several places rather than stitch weld them. They don't need much really; just enough t...

@av8or1 looking good! Are you at all concerned with the legs splaying when it’s loaded up and needs to be moved? Thank you! Confused though. Am I concerned about an issue with the legs when? As it sits currently, I will not store anything on it in that configuration. I am using this storage rack in...

Parallel to the long sides. Welded at every intersection. This turns all "rails" into a more monolithic structure. Plus, angle is very strong in it's vertical axis. 1.5x1.5x.187 (3/16) would be quite stout. I like X bracing on the legs, personally. Again, angle iron works really well. You...

You might run 2 pieces of angle iron side-to-side underneath. Stitch them to the crossed rails. You'd be surprised at how much strength that will add in the center preventing the "sag". Thank you for that CJ ... to be clear, are you suggesting that the angle should be applied parallel (an...

Right at 2": storage rack 32.jpg The son insisted that I haul my ol' fat a$$ up there and play for a bit: storage rack 33.jpg :lol: Good time was had by all. There are several housekeeping type of tasks that remain. I still need to weld the diamond plates to the frame, finish welding-out the fe...

First test-fit above the automotive build candidate, as it were, which is still under cover for the time being: Fits quite nicely, just as I calculated it, which was a refreshing change of pace:

At last it found home: Times 4:

Seeing as how I won't be able to install the two middle support legs until after I finish the work on the wife-eee's car build (during the course of which will use this storage rack) I elected to only assemble 4 of the 6 casters: casters 26.jpg Daylight was fading and how by this point, and I was bo...

That kept things in alignment until I could get it tacked: casters 24.jpg In fact it yielded positioning good enough that I ended up welding most of the 6 caster plates and all-threads while simply leaving it in this position: casters 25.jpg Gave 'em the ol' eye-ball test after they came out of the ...

The largest time sink of the day however would involve the casters. I needed to weld the all-thread to the caster plates. The idea was to insert the end of one of the all-thread rods into the opening in the middle of the plate. There was approximately at 1/16" gap there, so I wouldn't be able t...

Then applying even more primer to the undersides of the two diamond plate panels that still needed it: Then flipping the rack on its side and then on its top to weld the bottom of the supports as well as the gussets:

Well I made good progress tonight y'all. Even did alright with the rod to boot, which was a welcome change. Funny though how the little tasks require the most time, isn't it? I would certainly see that general fabrication axiom hold true today. I began with grinding all 6 of the caster plates: caste...

What you can do to make your life a bit easier is to fashion "pigtail" adapters from all of your different machines to use that wall mounted outlet. From the looks of it, the wall is an L14-30. Grab a couple of male L14-30s, wire them to different "R" type mating plugs, make the...

You're making strides now David! In looking at those pictures, I'd like to ask: what kind of material is this?

Those are about the only ones i found, I don't think they're heavy duty enough for a 4x6 with a heavy top. I might just try and make my own. Sent from my SM-G970W using Tapatalk If you do that, I would request that you create a build thread for it. I would be quite interested in seeing what you com...

These are the looking-worse-for-wear caster plates after a disassembly: casters 18.jpg So the next step in this process will be to grind these down. After that, I need to weld the all-thread to them and then re-assemble. And speaking of assembly/disassembly, this was the second or third time I've do...

And here is the one 240V outlet that I use for the toys CJ: 240V outlet 1.jpg At the time I was unaware that there are a number of different options for a 240V outlet type. The electricians asked what I wanted. My response was basically "...uh, I wasn't aware of that. Just make it fit the compr...

I coated both sides of the one that I cut, but only managed to do the top side of the other two, since the lil' un insisted on getting back onto the top of the rack when the primer had dried: storage rack 26.jpg So I still have the underside of those two panels to-go. However that is not a big deal,...

And then began applying my usual rusty metal primer to these panels: Ya use a fair amount of this stuff on your larger projects dontchaknow: