Welded Bar stools for the rich and famous

[Rectified]

Finally made some money with my welder. until I had to buy a router for the wood work, then it was gone.

[zoama]

Looks good, who's the rich and famous ?

[Rectified]

Looks good, who's the rich and famous ?

Just messing around. For a local friend.

[Rectified]

Hmm how did the pictures rotate like that...gotta fix it

[Rambozo]

Hmm how did the pictures rotate like that...gotta fix it

iPhone perhaps? The web is being deluged with sideways pictures thanks to Apple's non-standard way of defining picture orientation.

[m j mauer]

Looks very nice, good job.

[youngnstudly]

That turned out great! What did you start out with for those legs? I like the design of them.

[performance]

That turned out great! What did you start out with for those legs? I like the design of them.

Looks like a King product.

[Jason]

I like those. The only thing I would consider different is putting the wood seat closer to the base that it sits on. As to the profit, tools in trade for work is always a good thing :p

[Rectified]

That turned out great! What did you start out with for those legs? I like the design of them.

Them there legs, they are supposedly made for handrail balusters. I get them from a local supplier of ornamental iron works.

[Rectified]

iPhone perhaps? The web is being deluged with sideways pictures thanks to Apple's non-standard way of defining picture orientation.

Nah, I used my Nikon D60 and I see when I loaded them to the website it rotated the pictures and resized them. No biggie.

[Rectified]

I like those. The only thing I would consider different is putting the wood seat closer to the base that it sits on. As to the profit, tools in trade for work is always a good thing :p

It could go down alittle. I don't know if you can tell but it is a trailer hub flipped upside down I welded to the spindle a 1/4 inch plate. The plate was hard to level with a traditional torpedo level. As I put tack welds it would pull out off level. So I ended up using a mag base and dial indicator, then welded it where it was high to pull it into level. So I got the spin to within .030 run out which passed my test pilot spin for wobbling. The thing that bothers me about this project is the hub itself was not weldable so I welded to the 4 bolts and I just hope they never push through. I know I have taken them out before with heat and a BFH so it would seem unlikely someone could sit on it and push the bolts through.

[everlastsupport]

All looks good. I would have cut the hub/spindle down a little more though. Hey long as they work.

[Rambozo]

The thing that bothers me about this project is the hub itself was not weldable so I welded to the 4 bolts and I just hope they never push through. I know I have taken them out before with heat and a BFH so it would seem unlikely someone could sit on it and push the bolts through.

If you're really worried about it, you could always tack weld them to the flange, since it's too late to put some jam nuts on them. However, like you say they are pressed in and very unlikely to come out. My only concern would be from all the welding on them you might have lost some of the press fit.

[Rectified]

If you're really worried about it, you could always tack weld them to the flange, since it's too late to put some jam nuts on them. However, like you say they are pressed in and very unlikely to come out. My only concern would be from all the welding on them you might have lost some of the press fit.

I would have welded the bolts into the flange but the flange wouldn't weld right. Atleast I didn't like what I saw. A mild steel tack weld is very strong, strong enough that I could pick up the stool on one tack weld and move it around. Initially, when I tacked the legs to the flange, the tacks just broke. So I put down a larger tack appx 1/2 inch long and they didn't hold either. Going back to tack the bolts or weld the bolts completely around the press fit, I felt it would have done more harm than good. I also thought of welding another small piece of pipe that would butt up against the flange and the legs, effectively covering the bolts and absorbing some of the forces of sitting haha. To much thinking not enough work haha. I have another one to do and will revisit this.

[Rambozo]

I would have welded the bolts into the flange but the flange wouldn't weld right. Atleast I didn't like what I saw. A mild steel tack weld is very strong, strong enough that I could pick up the stool on one tack weld and move it around. Initially, when I tacked the legs to the flange, the tacks just broke. So I put down a larger tack appx 1/2 inch long and they didn't hold either. Going back to tack the bolts or weld the bolts completely around the press fit, I felt it would have done more harm than good. I also thought of welding another small piece of pipe that would butt up against the flange and the legs, effectively covering the bolts and absorbing some of the forces of sitting haha. To much thinking not enough work haha. I have another one to do and will revisit this.

Fair enough. Two things that come to mind for version two, run down some jam nuts to lock the studs to the flange, or better yet screw on some long nuts like coupling nuts or mag wheel nuts and weld your legs to the nuts instead. I would think that would look a little better than welded right to the threaded stud, too. From the photos it almost looks like the seats have a small flat on one side, is that just the angle of the picture or is there really a flat, and what is it for?
Since it's a trailer bearing do you ship these with a re-greasing maintenance schedule?

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Fair enough. Two things that come to mind for version two, run down some jam nuts to lock the studs to the flange, or better yet screw on some long nuts like coupling nuts or mag wheel nuts and weld your legs to the nuts instead. I would think that would look a little better than welded right to the threaded stud, too. From the photos it almost looks like the seats have a small flat on one side, is that just the angle of the picture or is there really a flat, and what is it for?
Since it's a trailer bearing do you ship these with a re-greasing maintenance schedule?

Ha, no maintenance schedule.

yes the trailer hub came with nuts that I ran all the way up on the bolt. I was not sure what they were made of (china mud) so I didn't weld to them. Ill go to Fastenal to get some real nuts ( prolly from china) to weld to. I thought about welding them so that they could also screw on but the angle of the leg would have made it hit the next leg as it went around. All good Ideas.

The wood was milled to dead nuts 12 by 6 inch, so when I made my jig circle cutter for the router it was either the radius was to long or my center was off. That is where the flat came from. I purposely left it figuring I don't mind it but if she does I have atleast four other blanks I can adjust. I really didn't want to get into the wood working side of this and hoped to purchase round seat blanks. I couldn't find any and so you see my first attempt at making round seats. So I planned on actually getting a wood burr disk for my angle grinder and scalloping around the edges for effect but ran out of time (spring break).

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What I will do for the next one run lug nuts all the way up and weld the legs to them!

[zedron]

Those look good. I need to do more non automotive projects.

[Rectified]

Those look good. I need to do more non automotive projects.

Thanks, that is what I came up with too. So I was thinking mostly smaller projects that I can use around the house. I have done a lamp base and will be doing another soon for mom. I am finding that people appreciate things that they cant really buy from the store or they are hand made. And I have proven that it doesn't need to be perfect and they still love it.

My neighbor came buy with a couple of half kegs and a bunch of SS fittings he wanted welded together for a alcohol distiller. That one was an ok project too.

In the future I was thinking about building a mini race car haha like a champ car with a turbo s2000 engine or a one of those hyabusa engines. That is a little out of my league for now.