Very nicely done. You've obviously got the right approach - I like the organised and nicely cut stock.
One thing you could improve (apart from the welds themselves, which will come with practice and are very good for a beginner anyway) is to clean the millscale off your stock at the places you're going to weld it. You really want nice shiny clean bright metal, not the dull gray 'coating'. Try a flap wheel in your angle grinder.
Very impressive! Al.
For the welds themselves there's too much weave. Weave is best kept quite narrow and for metal over 2mm you can get better results just going in a straight line with no weave at all. For welding in corners straight line, push and a little more wire speed is a winner.
Decking looks cool and the fire extinguisher is a great idea. I'll need to bolt one to my angle grinder.
Well done, uve took a lot of pride in that and its all been so worth while. what will your next project be.
Great job. Looks very sell-able.
Do like the fire extinguisher - think I might have to steal that idea for my trolley too
Dave
Very good ...
One minor point ,,,cylinder held by easily abraidable , meltable / burnable nylon straps ???
Why not make a bolt on shoe for the bottom fix say 40mm deep full circle with side flanges for the bolts so the cylinder base fits into it and use a 20 mm chain & spring gate hook or carabiner for the top retainer ?
Like me you may also regret not having a full set of four locking swivelling castors so you can easily move the trolly in any direction at any time rather than jigggle around having to follow the path of the two fixed ones.
Very nice work! What's the rated load?
A note about the fire extinguisher comments, I've seen people try to put out car fires with those small bottles, and frankly if they can put out a candle one should be proud. There are cheapish CO2 "real" extinguishers for sale at places like Machine Mart, etc. Might be worth considering one of those instead (he says without one in the garage! my other half was supposed to buy one for me, but I guess other things are more important than burning down the garage, including her motorbike. )
Regardless, very nice work!
i wasnt expecting it to put out an inferno, but its close enough to grab it fast before the fire spreads...... plus it look's good
I thought it was a drinks bottle for his Irn Bru like the one on my bike.