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Home Made Bike Stand. I Created A Monster!


Carlperkins

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Ok so the other week I decided I would make my own bike stand. Just so I can work on my bike a little easier etc,

its not finished yet, still painting the bike clamp etc, itll all be working in the next day or two.

Oh and I ended up putting way too much effort in haha

basically it cost..

£3 - scrap

£3 - buffing wheel

£1.20 - grinding disc

£15 - paint

scrap

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an old chip pan

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base of a little red wagon haha

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my welds

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the end product..

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now working on designing a matching truing stand.

let me know what you think guys

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looks pretty awesome mate :) you could sell these would save people money on buying the expensive park tools etc ones

Edit: just add a extra clamp to hold the bike off the floor and your sorted.

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Ahhh, thanks, makes so much more sense now aha!

Have you ever welded before? If not thas a really good first timer.. MIG, MAG, MMA, SPOT? Which one?

Very unlikely it's spot as that's primarily used on sheet metal and MIG/MAG are the same thing!

Does look really smart though :) Seems like a well thought out job. If you've got the time, skills and equipment definitely worth doing. Saying that I bought a Pedros work stand: http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=13795 14 years ago and it's still as good as the day I bought it! So they may seem expensive to start but certainly worth the money.

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Its a mig welder i used. And yeah its my first time welding, ive done quite a bit of soldering etc in the past, and thought welding would be really hard but it was pretty easy to be fair, they were abit uglier before i cleaned them up but im really happy at how clean they look.

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Its a mig welder i used. And yeah its my first time welding, ive done quite a bit of soldering etc in the past, and thought welding would be really hard but it was pretty easy to be fair, they were abit uglier before i cleaned them up but im really happy at how clean they look.

I loveee MIG obv the funnest. Been doing it since september with college and I must say, I am amazing at it ;)

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