Engine Test Stand from Scrap and Junk
About a year ago I bought a small log splitter that came in a steel shipping crate. I thought it would be a good candidate for the frame of an engine test stand, so a couple months ago I made it happen.
Here's the crate when I brought the splitter home:
First step was to take the corner pieces and reattach them as the caster mounts:
I tried to reuse the fasteners from the shipping crate wherever possible, so here's bolting on the casters, which where in the scrap bin a work. I checked with maintenance and they didn't mind me taking them. One doesn't pivot very well, but they were free.
Next I scavenged some more angle pieces off of the other crate frame to use as the lower mounting points.
One small problem I ran into was the side supports on the crate had ends that were swaged flat. I found it wasn't too hard to reshape them back into angles using the press.
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About a year ago I bought a small log splitter that came in a steel shipping crate. I thought it would be a good candidate for the frame of an engine test stand, so a couple months ago I made it happen.
Here's the crate when I brought the splitter home:
First step was to take the corner pieces and reattach them as the caster mounts:
I tried to reuse the fasteners from the shipping crate wherever possible, so here's bolting on the casters, which where in the scrap bin a work. I checked with maintenance and they didn't mind me taking them. One doesn't pivot very well, but they were free.
Next I scavenged some more angle pieces off of the other crate frame to use as the lower mounting points.
One small problem I ran into was the side supports on the crate had ends that were swaged flat. I found it wasn't too hard to reshape them back into angles using the press.
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