alloyguitar

Bent a piece of stainless (because it's what I had) to make hangers to go over the bars on the "cage." Made a single hook, and cut it in half to make two. And welded the bastards on. Works like so. Note the bottom hook to keep it from swinging around. Holds firm. I can shake the hell out of the cage and it stays firm. Example of how stuff will hang on it. Satisfied with that, I started painting it with rubberized undercoating, which had been in my garage for 24058u230942384 years and never dried, so I wirebrushed it off and hit it with black krylon fusion. I would have bedlinered it, but I'm currently broke and this was a 0 dollar project. I also painted the back of the first aid kit in red (didn't have white) so nothing rusts.

Made it all the way up with the horizontal bars. Should look something like this. Made little brackets to tie into existing threaded inserts on the body of the assfinder. I'm not seam welding the pieces together. Only tacking them. After all, it's made to hold gear, not protect from zombie attacks or anything. It's cool and all, but I needed some way to hold my first aid stuff. This first aid box has been kicking around the garage for a bit, so I'm using it. Wire brushed spots in the back to weld brackets onto.

Started on the horizontal bars. I'm just tacking them on the back. Nothing fancy. This is what it'll look like from the front. Moving on.

Continued... I'm wire brushing all the rusty nails prior to welding. Here's a before and after. Working my way around the outline, wirebrushing as I go. Takes a while, but oh well. Tacked the frame together and started working on the vertical bars. And so on... The longer spans I'm having to make out of two pieces. The square will be cut out so my cargo cover thing will be able to be installed/removed. Getting further. FINALLY made it all the way across with the vertical bars.

They're not much, but here's a photo-chronicle of my project. So I carry quite a bit of gear in my car. Stuff like my rappelling gear, tow straps, first aid stuff, camera gear, and so on flaps around in my car and the sound of it has been pissing me off, so I'm building a small cage like thing to hang stuff on. Cleaning out the car. Here you can see the amount of crap I carry around. Lol Ropes, towels, harnesses, gloves, yadda yadda yadda. More gear. The ammo can has tools in it. This was my old setup. Bungee cords with knots tied in it where I had carabiners hooked to. Fancy, I know. Other side. Pulled the upper side panel to make a template off of. Priority Mail boxes make the best templates. You can peel the folding things and stick 'em to the table, and they don't move. Try it. Works great. This is what I'm building the thing out of. Old, rusty, HUGE nails. We have a bucket of them in the garage. Why? I have no idea, but I'm using 'em because they're here and I'm broke. I was surprised how easy they were to bend. Working my way around the outside. I marked a grid every 2", give or take, for the center bars. They probably won't come out perfectly, but I'm fine with that. ...to be continued.

Not new to pathfinders, but new to this site. I'll post a few of my projects in the r50 section.