cornerweight stands

[davenport]

i was recently asked by a friend to make a set of stands to raise his cornerweight pads up off the floor 300/400mm so he can use his 2 post lift to raise/lower the car onto them and work at a nicer height...

a bit like these:

http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/oncirrus/system/trans.png

but higher....

so i set about having a play on autocad, he`s just launched a re-vamped website so i thought it`d be nice to incorporate his logo/website in the same font... (bit of a PITA transfering JPEG into DWG format but i got there in the end and fired this over to my local laser profilers:

3 days later and 30 minutes on the press i had the building blocks:

fired up the tig and got them all tacked up:

really pleased with the quality of the cutting:

then came the bit i was dreading....

MIG`ing them up, i make no excuses i fecking hate MIG welding, its dirty, smelly, and i`m no good at it hahahaha

fortunatly luck was on my side and things went ok:

a quick hunt on Ebay sourced some M10 feet and the stands were ready for delivery and powdercoat * :

*- well, not quite finished, i had to holesaw a 35mm hole in the top flange of each stand for the power wire to pass through....





and thats about it, putting the feet inside the corners rather than outside would have been easier, and probably stronger but then they wouldn`t be stackable, and i know workshop space is precious so went this route instead..


will get a final pic once there powdered....


Stu

 

[barny]

They look great! He must be dead chuffed with them.
Nice to see so much thought and design go into something as simple as a stand.
How do they price up laser cutting? Did you have to supply the steel or is it supplied?

 

[davenport]

all steel was supplied by the cutters, for everything on the CAD drawing cost me £100...

not sure if that was a deal as my work use them a lot for stuff or not but i thought it was peanuts for the amount of actual cutting involved...

yeah, Matt was grinning when he saw them, he hadn`t asked for anything personalised but hey.. thats 1 of the great things about laser profiling isn`t it..

i haven`t told him yet, (so lets hope he doesn`t come on here) but i`m also going to a make another exactly the same but instead of feet i`ll put it on castors and where the cornerweight pad fits in i`ll get a big chunk of foam upholstered so it becomes a seat, panother reason for doing this is when its put at the bottom of the stack the whole lot can be wheeled around the workshop..

 

[Shox Dr]

Sweet.

Have to say not sure how well the feet will fair, I think the bracket will bend. but I guess time will tell.

 

[davenport]

yup, i think so too, so theres some 6mm stainless "L" pieces ordered today to beef them up a bit...

 

[Cris B]

They're lovely mate, good work.

 

[Shox Dr]

yup, i think so too, so theres some 6mm stainless "L" pieces ordered today to beef them up a bit...

I think I'd cap the legs in, you don't need that much adjustment, weld the nut to the base and have a truncated hole so the thread can project through it if necessary.

 

[davenport]

I think I'd cap the legs in, you don't need that much adjustment, weld the nut to the base and have a truncated hole so the thread can project through it if necessary.

bl**dy hell..... he wont be corner weighting tractors hahahaha

 

[Shox Dr]

I find it better to fix something before it breaks

 

[brightspark]

they look a verry nice job but the feet and brackets do look a bit light duty