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Your custom welding cart

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36” high at the front and 30” high at the rear. The voltage knob feels like it is in a natural position and I can read the wire feed speed easy since there doesn’t seem to be much of a shadow.
 

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Surplus Craftsman toolbox. I was force to go above with cables/whips given space constraints so I built the "tree". Mostly stays in place but I have rolled it outside for trailer work etc.. My buddy replicated the craftsman fonts and 3D printed me a logo in the family name for the custom touch.
 

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My little home shop cart. Theres an old Miller Thunderbolt 225 stick machine nearby that keeps it company.
 

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rattlewagon said:
2 drawer filing cabinet with some bed frame angle iron to hold the casters on the bottom. been using this for 5 years, going to remake it soon with bigger wheels so it rolls out side better.

Just a flux core hoar right now, but I could add something off the back for a bottle if needed..

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Dude, at first glance I thought this was a mini fridge and started laughing. Welder AND beer easily mobile in the garage.
 
Made one of those bottle-ring hook things. Cut up an old driveshaft for the ring. The tall post will be for helmets.

Second bottle is for aluminum spool gun.

Oh, and the white basket is from a fridge/freezer.

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i like this .
you just gave me some ideas for my big welder and the dumb cables laying around all the time.

do the bottle hooks move around much, or lean over real bad with stuff only on one side. looks like a no
 
denis said:
I came up with this fine piece of engineering :flipoff2:
I'm so happy with this prototype, it may actually get a coat of paint one day.
That thing can litterally go everywhere.
Here's my high/low stability compact liftable welder cart/wheelbarrow, custom built for the 250A kemppi :grinpimp:
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I planned an angle cart so it would fit under a workbench. Since my bottle is 80cf, that's probably why I dismissed laying it flat. I really like the ability to transition from flat to semi erect :laughing:
Is it stable if the front wheels have to roll over anything? Or should the rear wheels be back another 6-8"?
I thought about larger front tires mounted outboard on swivels, like these
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chaplinfj60 said:
i like this .
you just gave me some ideas for my big welder and the dumb cables laying around all the time.

do the bottle hooks move around much, or lean over real bad with stuff only on one side. looks like a no
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No, the hooks are very stable and I can easily hang more than three helmets on the tall spike hook (great for the spectators/childins).

Other side got a bedframe angle iron for hanging grinders. Added a mig gun tube at the tip.
Used 1/2 inch round stock and made the whole side telescopic so it's easier to open the gull wings.

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Added a 3 gang receptacle box up nice and high at the front. It's high enough that the grinder cords don't touch the ground when hung on the side.
It's really a shame that welder plugs don't have a neutral, or I could have just added a breaker and got grinder power from the welder. Yes I could add a transformer, but this whole shitshow is getting heavy so I just added a 120 volt extension cord for a feed.

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77fixer said:
Is it stable if the front wheels have to roll over anything? Or should the rear wheels be back another 6-8"?
I thought about larger front tires mounted outboard on swivels, like these
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Its fine. In wheelbarrow configuration it will drive pretty much any kind of terrain. Inside the shop it can squeeze right about anywhere thanks to the relatively narrow width and short wheelbase.
I really wouldn't change a thing. This cart is pure genius. :grinpimp:
 
220V welders are two hots and a ground. You could use a dryer plug and cord (two hots, neutral, and ground) to the cart and branch off from there. Of course, my welder receptacles in the workshop are all just three-prong so I'd have to rewire everything to four-wire.
 
Brad said:
Umm any single phase welder cords I’ve ever dealt with have a black, White and neutral wires in the cord :confused: or am I misunderstanding something?
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The white is the neutral. I'm assuming you meant to say black, white and ground.

If you're talking a 120 vac welder, then sure you've already got the power for 120 volt receptacle, but on 240 volt machines which use standard 6-50R receptacles, you've got two hots and a ground, so you would have to use the ground as the neutral. Hot to hot is 240 volts, but 120 volts to ground.

Technically it would work, and I'm sure it's done quite often. But it is against code.
 
Muckin_Slusher said:
The white is the neutral. I'm assuming you meant to say black, white and ground.

If you're talking a 120 vac welder, then sure you've already got the power for 120 volt receptacle, but on 240 volt machines which use standard 6-50R receptacles, you've got two hots and a ground, so you would have to use the ground as the neutral. Hot to hot is 240 volts, but 120 volts to ground.

Technically it would work, and I'm sure it's done quite often. But it is against code.
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Yes I did mean black white ground. Wasn’t thinking straight.
 
Useless thread for someone with anything except a perfect cemented surface.

I bought a 60 dollar HF hand cart and converting that currently
 
Muckin_Slusher said:
Looks like ChiScouter put 18 or 20 inch tall air filled tires, I'd say it could at least handle a curb.

Show us yours!
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you think? Look like 8-9" to me, :homer:

Its in progress, just started yesterday, Ill post if its decent :flipoff2:
 
Muckin_Slusher said:
I think it was Chiscouter over on old site built this:

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Mine has always been hard to roll around (small wheels/seized) and all the extra recent weight isn't helping, so it got triked too.

Big improvement.

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This is turning into quite the battle of retards, this'll be my last post about this.

My welder has the old pirate sticker. Front wheel is 6 inch poly/cast. Rear stock plastic wheels are 10 inch, right from lincoln. Look at the panel screws, then compare to ChiScouter's welder (same model).

His is the top pic, mine is the bottom.

Those are big wheels----that's not a suitcase inverter welder, it's a big old transformer bitch.
 
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