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Old 28th June 2014, 11:58
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Not feeling the love for the bodywork today, its making a real mess of the workshop, on top of that my hands are a bit swollen which is a sign I should back off or rick a Lupus flair.
So decided to turn my hand to something that doesn't require fine motor skills, cleaning up!

But I couldn't go a whole day without making something and tidying up highlighted that power tools on flex are a pain!

So inspired by these guys, worth a watch if you have some free time and admire top class fabrication,

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHv...B7NyU5tIiEZHBg

I started with this:



An old spitfire wheel rim and a cut off length of very expensive roll cage tube which I'm never going to use.

Welded the tube to the rim thus:




Added a piece of 2" X 1" (or the metric equiv)



Bent up some hooks out of some 10mm steel bar I had lying around going rusty.





Welded the hooks onto the tube:



And voila, a power tool tree! The box section will have a pair of good quality double sockets bolted on once the paint has dried.

Just off to order some good quality flex to extend my power tool leads and also to buy a couple of cheapo rubber wheel so I can make it easy to move around.

TTFN

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