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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Werribee
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This is my new project being undertaken. Ive done all the work myself thus far and hopfully will be done within 2 weeks, still need to find good looking handles for it and a splash of paint
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Now that's different. Well done.
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Impressive ...... Around $20.00 and a bit of spare time! Should come up a treat!!!!
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Werribee
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cost a little bit more then 20 bucks ;) but still ALOT cheaper then what they try to flog off those supercrap ones for :P its my second barrel creation, my first being this
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Narangba QLD
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awesome mate!!
should be a great conversation piece if anything else!!
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Traralgon, Vic
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nice!
what you should do is put the top back on, but have a sealed layer under that with oil in it, so when you open the cap it appears to be full of oil. haha
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Werribee
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The top section is getting put back on upside down, and will be making a new top for it, will have locators in the top of the bottom section so that the top section sits nicely.... if that makes sense... the oil suggestion sounds like a great idea, but they are going to to be moving alot and my welding skills (rather my pos welder) probably wouldnt make a good seal on it lol but hopefully tonight i will have the front panels put on and can start on the top section untill i get some more steel for the walls of the draws
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just finished the tacking on the lower section, just need to get the walls before i weld them in place, lines up pretty well apart from 1 join between the 2nd and 3rd draws, but pretty good i think for an auto elec :P
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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That is most impressive. I can see a market for these items!
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Werribee
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here is some 95% finished pics
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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that is AWESOME mate!!
well done!
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Great job, only problem is it's upside down.
This is only the proto type, it is isn't it? No seriously thats great, very inventive.
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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Very nice , although it would be good to put slits inside the draws and have the locking mechanism slide down through the holes in the draws from the top of the barrel , that way you dont have 2 big bars ruining the outside look of the toolbox runnig down the outside of it, awesome job though , very original , 9/10
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Join Date: Sep 2006
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That is excellent mate. Good to see another person who leaves the work area in a shambles. Makes you appear more industrious! lol
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That's awesome mate, Good work..
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Awesome, I love it. Sure beats those cheap pox Supercrap boxes.
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Location: Melbourne. Socialist capital of Victoriastan.
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This is very good. The cycle of life continues.
Let’s see. Iron ore dug out of the ground. Coal burned in a Coking oven. Mixed together in a blast furnace. Turned into steel coils at Pt Kembla. Processed into sheet steel. Sheet steel pressed into panels for a Leyland P76 P76 recycled and turned back into sheet steel. Sheet steel turned into something really useful, a drum. A really useful (and more reliable) drum turned into something even more useful… A toolbox. Efgiar, you deserve to be nominated for the Nobel Prize for services to recycling and the environment.
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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That's brilliant, very inventive.
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Bundoora Victoria
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no you should be after thinking all this out ""I just thought it was an oil drum to toolbox conversion"" well done
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Brisbane
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Love this toolbox but I have a suggestion too. Instead of locking it at the front like that (which covers up you good work), have you thought about welding an eyelet on the back of each drawer and sliding down a locking bar from the top? The eyelets could be either inside the drum and out of sight or they could protrude out the back to make it easier to get the bar in situ?
Either way, looks great ;) Last edited by GTP006; 01-07-2008 at 04:45 PM. Reason: sp |
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Outstanding mate. A few different skills involved there too.
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Excellent stuff. Now to start mass production, I can see a market for these :P
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rofl copter
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Werribee
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hey guys, thanks for all the comments, gtp006, i did think of that but having tools inside it would be apain to leave an area clear just to lock it, but now that i think more, there is a small gap on the outside of the draw at the front, might be something to look into after i come back from sydney (the whole reason im building this
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That's brilliant. Well done.
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Now where's the matching esky?
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Tell you what, finish the one you are working on and send it to me for my professional opinion after you have painted it ;) |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Shepparton
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Looks great!
Where do we send the order forms? :P
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lol, how long does a professional opinion take? :P but yeah thats an idea, but to improve on that idea and have it TOTALLY hidden, u could have the lock at the back of the draw, with 2 holes, and 1 bar, and you put it in 1 hole, it locks the draws, and then pull it out, turn it around 180 and put it in the hole directly behind it for hidding
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