Utilization of items for unintended purposes

[aldochina]

couple of recent items I happened upon. Grabbed a salon chair from by the dumpster at my wifes work. with a few tweaks it should make a fine lift. Gotta love honda's. Pulled the 200e out of the shed for the first time in 2 yrs. drained some fresh gas through the carb and it fired 2 pulls. Had to put a new tire on as the orig succumed to dryrot. Refreshed this back in 08! still havnt gotten the racks on.
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Picked up this old wood lathe the other day. 80 bucks, came with set of chisels, bunch of gauges and a very sturdy bench. Put some new plugs and cords on it. I decieded to fab up a few pieces to try something out. block is threaded for m20 1.5, and bolted to the bowl turning piece that came with the lathe. machined down a piece of 5/8" rod with a grinder to fit in the other end. Surprisingly no heat builds up there with a puff of wd. Seams to work great. Tried a bunch of different items. I think once i come up with good routine it should work sweet. Side i did was worse than the left. Still has scratches, but I bet if you spent the time you could get a nice finish. Think I will be turning bowls for christmas this year! lol. Thanks for looking
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[czac]

Ahhhh fellow wood turner?
I use my lathe for stuff like this too... it comes in handy for cleaning up things like axles and old rusty drill press poles and rifle barrels and such! And I use it to turn the occosaional Bowl or box or pen...lol or making tool handles.

[jays375]

I like that lift!Going to be on the hunt for one of those.One tool you should purchase is a electric band file.That will make your axle clean up really fast.The Harbor Freight ones actually work very well.

[bkm]

That chair lift is awesome. What did you attach to the piston to support the trike?

[aldochina]

In the pic there is just a 3/4 plywood square sitting atop what the chair used to mount to. I need to fab up a platform for it. you still have to pick the machine up to set it on, as it clearly wont go low enough to slide underneath. I also need to rig up some kind of pin to hold it from turning. if you sneeze on it it will spin. Be real cool for display!!

[fabiodriven]

I was amazed at the stuff you've yanked from the trash after having been to your place Rory. You've got an eye for that stuff man!