CGCINC Project#6: 1962 Flair stove rolling cart

[CGCINC]

A friend of the family asked the other day if I would be interested in building a simple cart for an old 1962 Frigidaire Flair oven/stove they have in their basement. Sure, I say! I like to make Stuff!!

The main posts are made out of 2" square tubing and the upper front and sides are made out of 1 1/2" square tubing. The bottom is 1 1/4" Angle and there will be a knotty pine wood shelf resting on the angle and wrapping around and down the front of the stand by 1 1/2". The castors are 3" non marking so they don't mark up the painted floor they have in their basement. I will be painting it a satin black and the wood shelf and wood handle/towel rack will be stained by them to match their cabinets.

First is the brackets for the handle. I drilled the holes then pulse welded them together to cut the angle.




I also welded a piece of 1/8" flat on one side of one of the brackets to act as a stop for the wood dowel.




The hole is just for a screw to hold the dowel in place.

[CGCINC]

[CGCINC]

I will be painting it tomorrow so I will post finished pics by the weekend.

[donor76]

Looks great, good job

[CGCINC]

I had a cancellation this afternoon so I had time to paint the cart.....

Some primer....






And paint....

[Powertig]

That is a a great cart. I liked your choice to leave one of the handle ends closed and the wood lip over the front of the bottom shelf looks great. I have an unrelated question. how did you get the pictures to show up large in your post, instead of having to use the thumbnails and pop up viewer. I prefer to look at the pic and be able to read about it at the same time so I would like to do my posts the same way.

[CGCINC]

That is a a great cart. I liked your choice to leave one of the handle ends closed and the wood lip over the front of the bottom shelf looks great. I have an unrelated question. how did you get the pictures to show up large in your post, instead of having to use the thumbnails and pop up viewer. I prefer to look at the pic and be able to read about it at the same time so I would like to do my posts the same way.

I upload my pictures to Photobucket and then just copy/paste the image link in my post. You will have to use one of the photo hosting sites like... Photobucket, Imageshack, Flickr, Tinypic.... There are a bunch of them.

[67cudafb]

Very nice what did you cut handle brackets with bandsaw? Cuts look to clean for plasma. Being from florida what the hell is a flair stove?