cheech9898
Sr Member
Well, I decided to start on my Savage Toolbox. Wick's was out of the 2x3 angle so I bought what I needed for the toolbox itself. The scisor lift will be built 2nd, and I've still got some thinking to do about how I want to do the locking mechanism.
My toolbox outer dimensions are going to be bigger than Adam's, I'm shooting for 10 inches wide, 12 inches high, and 20 inches long. The length is mainly to accommodate an 18 inch machinist ruler. The extra width is due to some square storage bottles I have around and plan to use inside 2 wide.
I think I'm probably going to have around $400ish into it by the time I'm done with the curent 6061 Aluminum metal prices, good aircraft rivets (including Cherry structural rivets at the corners), 1 tube of Fusor 108 slow set automotive panel adhesive, and I sprung for one of the bigger Harbor Freight pneumatic pop rivet guns using a 20% off coupon. You could cut about $140 off that figure if you skip the panel adhesive, go with average structural rivets, and use a regular pop rivet gun instead of the HF pneumaitc pop rivet gun.
I'm planning to use as few power tools as possible and keeping it to power tools everyone here will most likely have. I'm hoping to limit it to an electric jig saw (larger 2x3 angle cutting, hammer form cutting, & ripping the 1x1 tubing down), drill press, and a few air tools (rivet gun & sheet metal nibbler). Rest will be done with a good high tension hack saw and a course file.
Anyway, here's pics of the start of the project and an example of one of the aluminum angle pieces being cut:
More pics as I progress over the next few weeks.
My toolbox outer dimensions are going to be bigger than Adam's, I'm shooting for 10 inches wide, 12 inches high, and 20 inches long. The length is mainly to accommodate an 18 inch machinist ruler. The extra width is due to some square storage bottles I have around and plan to use inside 2 wide.
I think I'm probably going to have around $400ish into it by the time I'm done with the curent 6061 Aluminum metal prices, good aircraft rivets (including Cherry structural rivets at the corners), 1 tube of Fusor 108 slow set automotive panel adhesive, and I sprung for one of the bigger Harbor Freight pneumatic pop rivet guns using a 20% off coupon. You could cut about $140 off that figure if you skip the panel adhesive, go with average structural rivets, and use a regular pop rivet gun instead of the HF pneumaitc pop rivet gun.
I'm planning to use as few power tools as possible and keeping it to power tools everyone here will most likely have. I'm hoping to limit it to an electric jig saw (larger 2x3 angle cutting, hammer form cutting, & ripping the 1x1 tubing down), drill press, and a few air tools (rivet gun & sheet metal nibbler). Rest will be done with a good high tension hack saw and a course file.
Anyway, here's pics of the start of the project and an example of one of the aluminum angle pieces being cut:
More pics as I progress over the next few weeks.
