One Night Stand

[wmetfab]

So here I was.
In lust with my dear Lana, I brought her home with me.
That night i started to give her a nice bath and thats when I truly knew she was the one for me, I knew right then, that I wanted to keep her forever...
I wanted to love and cherish her... support her properly with, ...
A stand.

 

[Tomc938]

You have good taste - nice legs!

 

[140mower]

So here I was.
In lust with my dear Lana, I brought her home with me.
That night i started to give her a nice bath and thats when I truly knew she was the one for me, I knew right then, that I wanted to keep her forever...
I wanted to love and cherish her... support her properly with, ...
A stand.

..... and @Susquatch thinks I have a twisted brain, could you be my brother from a different ma and pa?

 

[wmetfab]

But I knew, just any stand would not do. It had to be special. Customized. Made only for her
So I began...
When i was a young tradesman, 23 yrs old in .. 1991, I worked in a sawmill, Lakeland mills in Prince George B.C. (the one that blew up)
We modified a lumber transfer deck and I salvaged a nice piece of quarter inch plate 24×48, some 2x2 angle 2" channel and tube.
I made up the bench shown at work and took it home to my garage in PG, bolted a vise to it and had my little shop.
When I moved to away from PG to Osoyoos in 1995 the bench came with me. It served many purposes over the years.

 

[wmetfab]

So i came up with a plan. I wanted the bed to be about 40 -42" high.
I measured out the lengths and chopped it apart to size. When I had the frame back together i set to work on the top.

 

[wmetfab]

I dont have a 100t press brake so i came up with another way, I pulled a fabricator trick out. After trimming the jagged edges off, I carefully cut the plate 2/3 part way through with a zip wheel. I clamped a 1×3 bar to it clamped it all tot he horses and pounded carefully it down as much as i could.
Once the bend made the cut edges touch, I flipped it went thru with the zip again and bent it more. I did that 3x untill i got the angle I wanted.

 

[wmetfab]

I tacked 1/4×2-1/2 flat bar on the ends to to extend and maximize the length and match the side, and made some little corner transition pieces made it all nice and welded it up.
The plate was pretty flat so I was careful to minimize heat input from the welding. I did not weld the inside of the long bends, I left the thin line.
So the tray was done then I atattched the frame i'd already tacked and mostly welded.
I had 4 pcs left over channel from tbe legs, spliced and coped them and made cross members under the tray.
U will see a dog i used to suck the plate tight to the member, then tacked it.

 

[wmetfab]

I carefully checked the plate and it was pretty much dead flat. A few taps with the 4#'er in 1 spot that was that
I looked at the assembled tray and frame, went trough my left overs, found material and decided to make a shelf and drawer slides.
When it was all done the entire fabrication was size on and perfectly square. None of this 1/16 tolerance business.

 

[wmetfab]

When I was young, I used to be a shit hot metal fabricator / welder.
Fastest fit in the west...
I did really good work. The best
They gave me all the hard jobs, the ones that had to be perfect and I had to fix the others f###k ups.

I built a lot of conveyors and machinery, structural steel. They would bring me a roll of drawings a pile of steel and forming, bearings sprockets shafting and I put it all together, and ususally ...paint it green.
Then we would erect it, put it all up and make it run. It was hard work but it was super interesting and fun..
Now I'm all washed up....lol

Here is the finished stand with a couple good thick coats of grey enamel. I let it cure for a couple days.

In hindsight i made the drawers too deep. 4 or 5" better than 6" and I made the shelf too high up.

 

[wmetfab]

And here she is, my sweet girl...
Well supported on her own personalized stand.
Hand crafted with luuuv by papa.

U know, at the end of the day, one way or the other, the woman WILL get support!
I know it

 

[140mower]

Well done, you maniac.

 

[wmetfab]

Oh...BTW, Fixerupper, I almost forgot...
I put jacking bolts under the legs for adjustable feet, with jam nuts. So I can get the oil in the sight glasses all perfectly and level

 

[wmetfab]

You have good taste - nice legs!

U should see them in stockings

 

[wmetfab]

..... and @Susquatch thinks I have a twisted brain, could you be my brother from a different ma and pa?

Twisted...metal...bars.
I started with ornamental Iron railings at 16

 

[Jswain]

Looks awesome!

 

[6.5 Fan]

Nice.

 

[Ironman]

I looked at the assembled tray and frame, went trough my left overs, found material and decided to make a shelf and drawer slides.

Nice Rack

 

[Engmaxx]

Love it!

 

[Dan Dubeau]

If that's your work all "washed up", I'd say you were probably pretty damn good when you were younger. Very nice job! I like the beefy chip pan, Kerf bending like that is a great trick for thicker stuff. Feels like magic.

A stand for my Myford has been on the list since I bought it about 10 years ago. One thing that kills me about mine is the height. I hate short lathes, they are back killers. I'd like to build something similar to yours, and you've given me some ideas.

 

[mickeyf]

She's cute, but that first photo made me think of that motown song from the 60's about "the girl with the skinny legs". Then I saw that it was nice thick channel, not just angle, so I have revised my opinion.