KiwiKev's driveway work station replica Finished Done!!

[grizz]

KiwiKev, hotrod builder extraordinaire built one of these a few years ago, I wanted one as well......

CHECK HIS GARAGE THREAD HERE:

www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64560

What I will be aiming for.





Motivated by friend Clem in Fayetteville, Arkansas I thought I would show this mini-build as well in case someone wanted to copy it.

So I started to collect bits and pieces as time went on.

Some bits found, some donated and some purchased, the most expensive by memory was £3.00 for the Lion no2 vice.
The pipe vice was 50p at a bootfair last year, and the little vice found at the tip.
The small anvil made of a bit of mini railway line. There is also a larger bit of rail line for hammering on.

Truck brake drum was donated free by a local truck service station and the piece of RSJ found by friend Woodsie in a skip.




So I started off by just cleaning up the bits that will be added to the tool post (no idea what it should be called)





No2 Lion vice cleaned up, just the oil and dirt at this point.



My favourite is this 50p pipe vice.



Next up I need to plan what goes where and to keep it functionally balanced.

More after the weekend if you are interested.

[dubscum]

cool

[SmokeEm]

I Must buy myself a MIG welder so I can do cool stuff just like this!

Love your threads Rian, like a good Red Wine, they just get better.

[93fxdl]

Keep thinking if sorting myself a portable vice stand, but I was thinking along the lines of a portable pipe vice stand type
www.dolex-vices.com/ImgProduit/600/Etablis_portatif_pliant.jpg
Another option I have, was left to me by my father, it fits across a door frame, like a small acroprop, with a vice mounted to it, or I could be boring and get a workmate.
Ttfn Glenn

[dreadnought]

loving the slingshot dragster in the back ground.

[Deleted]

oooh think i might do this, Ive got a big curse word of a vice i have nowhere to bolt it, (rented house and not allowed a fixed bench)

Its handy as hell but hard to use on the floor. Pipe vice is cool idea too!

Summer project time

[optimusprime]

Oooh am liking this!

I'm getting ideas ......

[grizz]

Go on guys, it's a piece of pie to make.

Scavenge the bits you need, buy what you really cannot find and glue and bolt together.

[grizz]

I have been experiencing insomnia for some time.

This morning was noting new, so after surfing the web for a few hours, in bed on the iPad, it was up, feed cats, myself and down to the garage to play quietly as Nicola had threatened me with some seriously debilitating injuries if I were to cut and grind at 6am.

So 6.30 is not 6.00 or is it?

Anyway, I decided to keep the garage door shop and started by making a long nosed mini Anvil from the one I made a few years ago. It works fine, but I also realised that sometimes you need to shove stuff like pipe deeper over a point to work it.



Later I opened up the garage and decided to start using one of the quiet tools so that I would not wake up the neighbourhood.

I had just started when I felt a hand on my shoulder........

Ooooopppsss.....!!!

Well, not that bad, Nicola wanted to get to the shops early so got up, showered while I was tiptoeing around the garage and came to see if I wanted a cuppa tea.

So I made her take a pic of the quiet tool.

Compressor running inside the garage, and plasma cutter outside.

This is a bit quicker, albeit rougher than a 9" grinder.

Cutting the post to size, I went for 780mm although the standard size should be around 750mm for a table top to mount stuff onto.



Next up, plate steel for the base and table.

[composimmonite]

I've a huge vice I salvaged from the local tip back in the days when the workers turned a blind eye to salvaging items that were usable ! It's too big for a garage workbench so lives outside on the floor yet has still proven to be invaluable. Might one day get around to making a frame - I have loads of various KeeKlamps as well as scaffolding tube lying around so the obvious choice. The pipe clamps are quite expensive to buy new - I've got 2 small and one large from pipe bender frames. Small for conduit and large for scaffolding. Cheaper to buy a pipe bender frame with vice attached than the vice alone in some cases - especially if the rest of the bender is missing. Besides the hook to hold pipe vice closed there should also be a dowel similar to what is used on axle stands (a bolt ?) that takes the strain when clamped up and not the hook.

[Dez]

ive been thinking about something like this recently, even though i have a great big fully equipped workshop i prefer to work outside when the weather allows. ive got a massive heavy built steel bench on wheels but its so bloody heavy when loaded up i cant move it, something like this may be better. ive made a few 'kiwi kev' tools over the years, all have proven useful.

[grizz]

Plasma cutter came in handy.

RSJ was 10mm and this steel plate about 6mm.



H shaped cut out for steel to fit through.

Welded in place.



Initial mock up.



Marked out, cut out and finished, drilled.



Base plates welded in place.



Post welded in place.



Different angle.




Yes, I am pleased.

I will paint just the base, without the vices and tools.

Keeping them in their original paint.

[grizz]

Raining here since 04.00 which meant no bootfair, this is two weeks running now we had weekend rain...... So I am suffering with a bit of withdrawal symptoms.

Went down to the garage at 06.00 to move the stand indoors and dry it, as I want to clean up the brake drum and RSJ a bit with a flap wheel before getting some old grey marine paint I still have from when I painted out the rear of the '63 Transit van a few years ago.
I had thought of painting everything one colour originally, but the also thought about it and had it pointed out to me that they had all "earned their stripes" over time and deserved to keep their original paint.

When I did the little anvil's screw down holes I decided to also drill a pair of holes into the top aspect of it, one large and one small for those times when you need to bend and whack something very squarely.



I had been asked by "1/2 Cup" in Australia what I thought the stand weighed.

Without tools attached it is just over 82 or in old English 12 Stone 8

The tools weigh another 18kg or 2 stone 11

So the total weight is 100kg or 15 stone 5 in English.



Heavy bloody thing I tell you, even rolling it about without the tools attached.

Decided that I will flap wheel the scabby rust of the base and post followed by some Hammerite.

[grizz]

Never one to leave Well, Alone.....

I found some Poo Brown Hammerite this afternoon and after grinding the whole stand clean with a pair of flap wheels, I proceeded to brown it up.

Kept the two plates Hammerite grey and some detail around the base and up the RSJ edges.

Will add the tools tomorrow, then Job Done!



Perfect way to spend some bank holiday weekend time..

[optimusprime]

I reckon if you fitted some hooks/brackets to the inside of the H beam, and hung some hammers or a big old pair of stilsons on it it would finish it off a treat.

Otherwise its still a great project ..... Now to hope a plasma arrives in a skip!

[alfie176]

Hi Grizz, Great piece of equipment and useful too. I love following your threads and the skip diving. Norman

[grizz]

May 3, 2015 21:59:03 GMT optimusprime said:

I reckon if you fitted some hooks/brackets to the inside of the H beam, and hung some hammers or a big old pair of stilsons on it it would finish it off a treat.

Otherwise its still a great project ..... Now to hope a plasma arrives in a skip!

I knew it was not perfect.

Hooks for a couple of ball pein and lump hammers would be great.

Will be adding them.

[grizz]

May 3, 2015 22:29:36 GMT alfie176 said:

Hi Grizz, Great piece of equipment and useful too. I love following your threads and the skip diving. Norman

Thanks mate, glad to be sharing.

Free is always good.

[grizz]

May 4, 2015 8:37:29 GMT @leadfoot said:

That is cool. I might make one myself if the parts mysteriously comes to my garage.

It is a mindset......

Just learn to keep your eyes open.

And bootfairs are great places to start.

FOR EXAMPLE TODAY........



There was a large used vice the seller wanted £3.00 for, he also had a woodworking bench vice for £4.00


Today's spend was under £15.00, some bits are for mates, like the knives, steering ball, coat hanger folding ruler and yet, I spent under £10.00 on myself in two hours I a field, trust me, a pub would be less fun for the money (some days)


Here is a breakdown of prices.

Cool Spitfire Flag 50p
Pair of cast iron kitchen utensil hanging braces £1.00
Folding hanger with brush for a hanger collecting griend £1.00
Tin of A/F and Imperial thin wall sockets in 1/4 and 1/2 inch plus some adapters 50p
Box of brand new router bits 50p
Very Sexy planishing hammer 50p
12/13mm ring spanner 10p
9/16" vintage 1950 spanner 10p
Folding ruler £1.00
Four butter knives to be made into silly sharp steak knives for Martin 80p
Dome bolts with washers and nuts 10/£1.00
Used steering ball for Martin 50p
Two good quality wood clamps 50p each
Plastic clamp free
Nice vintage smoking pipe for Nicola 50p (already on display)
Lovely dainty Murano glass crucifix with chain for Nicola £1.00
And a yard stick £1.00
Four punnets of fresh strawberries for £5.00

[SmokeEm]

Great paint Job Rian, I take it Harley approves!

Will you be retoring the paintwork on the vice etc or leaving as is?