Over the last few weekends I finished the welding cart that was becoming a science project.
After I started painting the drawers, I decided I didn't like the look of the drawer pulls with them being curved out and rounded on the edges. There wasn't enough material to to square them off so I made some new ones from 7075 extrusion.
For the same reasons I decided to make a squared off handle for the cart, my intent was to match the angles of the handles on the welder.
This weekend I took the cart apart, finished some welds I couldn't get to with it assembled, prepped it for painting and hauled everything downstairs to paint it. It was 54° today but not warm enough to paint in the garage or outside.
Today the paint was dry but was still fairly soft, I spent about 45 minutes going over it with a head gun, hauled everything back out to the garage and started reassembly.
The last pictures are of it fully assembled and finished... maybe. I may make a hanger for the ground cable, I haven't decided yet. I prefer having the mig gun make a big loop over the welder versus trying to coil it up on the side and I'm not sure I want any cable management brackets sticking out from the sides.
I'm very happy with how it turned out and while I only have just over a $100.00 invested I wont do another project like that. The amount of time I spent with cutting up the clothing rack, grinding old welds and splicing pieces to make them long enough far outweighed just buying new material. The metal from the clothing rack would have been useful, just not for this project, it seemed like every piece I had was one inch too short or had three holes that needed to be filled.
