Thanks. I've spilled gas all over it cleaning out an oil tank, you should prob. avoid that. All ply is glued, I assume the top would warp and heave before the bottom. It's just cheap, and cheap don't last. It's like the old saying,
cheap, fast, good, pick two.
If it's cheap and fast, it wont be good. If it's good and cheap it wont be fast. If it's fast and good it won't be cheap.
I wanna figure out a way to build this sucker with a "trap door" for my oil changes....my scoot is really low, so I can't fit an oil pan underneath it. It's a real fuckin pain in the ass to swap oil. BUT, a little door with a hinge may work.....
Man, that's brilliant. I've been putting off building a bench like this, but after having to do my oil change this weekend, a lift and trap sounds like a great idea! Hell, you could build the pan right into the deck with a hose and valve into a bottle or drum.
A trapdoor seems like overkill for an oil change, and you often need some sort of lift to get your bike's wheels above the table anyway. Now having the wheels fall INTO 2 trapdoors when you want the bike to sit on theframe rails. THAT would overkill too--but might be cool in a nerdish way.
After seeing this thread i ran across a door shipping pallet out by a dumpster, with a couple of scrap doors lying on it... A busted-up mover's dolly..Already had some 2"x8" pieces 24" long ..and carriage bolts lying around.
IT'S ON, as they say.
Probably won't make any trapdoors ;-) But do have a couple of those rubber RV wheel chalks from Harbor
for making a wheel vise or 2 :-)
Thought some more about trapdoors..Especially since one of the doors i found had a cutout for a
cat door..but came up with something else.
Leaving a recess in the top for the ATV scissors lift to fit into might be a good thing, so it wouldn't be neccessary to take it on and off the table when loading and unloading the bike.
It's probably a no-go for me though,because i'd have to cut up a door to do it, and that might f'up
the structural integrity of the door :-(
Done, except for pix.
Had to overbuild everything to make the cutout for the ATV lift--because the tabletop now doesn't do much to
much to hold it all together--
But I can say that if you can get your hands on a couple of door pallets from a builder's supply/lumberyard you
are about halfway to your lift table for no $$. Even better if you can also get a solid core door that they've replaced in a remodel job.
If you have access to a bander (borrow it from the warehouse/ lumberyard) your fasteners bill would be zero $$ as well :-)
And fwiw, it's often easier to cut off nails with your angle grinder then to pull them out of the lumber...
Done, except for pix.
Had to overbuild everything to make the cutout for the ATV lift--because the tabletop now doesn't do much to
much to hold it all together--
But I can say that if you can get your hands on a couple of door pallets from a builder's supply/lumberyard you
are about halfway to your lift table for no $$. Even better if you can also get a solid core door that they've replaced in a remodel job.
If you have access to a bander (borrow it from the warehouse/ lumberyard) your fasteners bill would be zero $$ as well :-)
And fwiw, it's often easier to cut off nails with your angle grinder then to pull them out of the lumber...
Sweet!
Yeah def. get this stuff for free if you can. I didn't think to go the lumberyard route, the only large construction site in town wouldn't let me dumpster dive--insurance they said.
Well I've managed to put this table to good use, and might have to remount the vice. Bending and pulling from forging some parts up has really done a number on it.
I had to take the chop in to have just a few bits tigged, well turns out that the rear mount is cracked. Gotta pull the motor, if I'm doing that, might as well paint the frame.
Looks like I got my work cut out for me.
I use a cookie sheet (baking pan with 1/4" lip) that came from a garage sale or someplace. About 11"x14"
Probably cost meal of twenty-five cents "in the day" ;-)
As to paint, I'd think a can of appliance enamel would do the trick (?)
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