Building the Mechanics Cart I’ve been Ogling lately.

Has a 4 inch deep top shelf for power tools, gloves, and tape measures. Followed by two shallow drawers for chisels, and finer measuring tools. And then a five inch deep drawer for hand saws of all shapes and sizes. This one drawer tried to save the drawer slides but I’ve squished them too much and it catches, so I need to sort out an alternate method to operate that drawer. Too bad. Oh well. The unit has an open shelf for adhesives, paints, and other fluids. Below that is a tray to hold my bag of cloths, two palm Sanders, a multi tool, and long sheets of sand paper, and sanding discs. I put it on wheels, unfortunately one of the four wheels exploded on me, do I either remove the other three, or buy a new wheel, or attempt to epoxy that wheel back together. Hmmm. It was supposed to be build with stuff I had on hand to stop me spending money! The cart I had been swooning over was going to be close to $600.00 after taxes. 

Building this four foot tall, three foot wide, and eighteen inch deep monstrosity is supposed to help me clean all my hand tools off the walls, and save floor space between it and my work bench. It also has allowed me to move two lesser used table saw jigs to a better spot above it, opening up the wall space close to the door for my clamping rack solution that I have coming tomorrow. It’s far from perfect, and sort of ugly, all cobbled together with odds and ends I had lying around the garage. A great use of the materials if you ask me.

Still a few moments yet until it’s all taken care of, but I’ve made progress! Forward movement! Yay.