OA Cart

Antique fire-extinguisher carts? They seem to have a front-rear 2 bottle arrangement that might have some utility.

Dave

Take a look at he Horrible Fright cart. Not the greatest, but for $60.......

Bob

Find some wheels, then copy the rest from a catalog photo.

jsw

I had a great cart that I since sold for space reasons. Could give you some ideas.

You could start with a regular hand truck and weld on some cylinder supports to it. It seems to be the easiest approach.

i

I have special parameters. I live on a sand dune. Lots of my pulling around is on blowsand, and I need wide wheels. I said big diameter wheels without thinking. May just have to put four inflatable wide cart wheels on it, kicked back a bit so that the tipping point is easier. It's getting harder to muscle stuff from this broken back. May even consider one of those four wheel tongued carts that you pull with an ATV, or a little HF two wheel trailer where they are mounted on there permanently and solidly. Hose racks, a tray for tips and striker, etc.

If I could find just the right thing, I'd just buy it. But I like to putter and create, but then sometimes you end up not getting what you want and spending more than a new one costs and you end up with a worthless white elephant. Those 142# O2 cylinders are getting heavier. Anyone notice that?

Steve

Yeah, I've got one of those. It'll be with me forever, and when I die somebody can use it for a jack stand for a locomotive. However, I do like the method I used to secure the bottles, chain and De-Sta-Co clamps. It's quick and secure. See the following:

Pete Keillor

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:43:28 -0400, the infamous Pete Keillor scrawled the following:

Yeah, they are, aren't they?

Sweet cart, Pete. All I see missing are the rubber bands to hold the ends of the chains from making Poe noises. I used rubber coated chain on my TIG bottle. It doesn't rattle, and that's nice. (Now to get enough room in the shop to actually be able to _use_ it...

-- Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil, and still more the man who is indifferent to everything. -- Johann K. Lavater

Get a couple of those no-flat wheelbarrow tires, the ones you can pound nails through. Then make sure that the tires aren't loaded when it's parked, otherwise you will get flat spots.

That was the nice thing about my particular cart model, when the thing is sitting, the tires are clear of the floor. Not by much, but enough. Large diameter tires are nice when dragging the works over rough ground, I've had ones with 8" tires, bad news on rough and potholed concrete. The green slime helps with tubes that want to go flat, too. Still looking for a set of solid urethane tires, though. It's not like I'm going to drag the thing along at 40 mph, after all.

Stan

I have just a standard cart, maybe 8 inch hard rubber wheels, but not hard enough to keep from developing flat spots. I shove a small block of wood underneath the wheel side when it is going to be parked for awhile, to get the weight off them. Just one of those little design details, it would have been trivial to have built the cart to do this.

Maybe something like this?

jsw