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Cool shop tools or homemade ideas to help around the shop

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Anyone have anything cool they built to help around the shop like storage, help with plasma cutting or fab work maybe welding or anything helpful or saved you money
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every time I put a sheet of steel on the table and only use a portion of it , I use a magic marker and put a number on it. I save it as " table layout # whatever " Next time I load that sheet , i just import the " table layout number " from the sheet . Saves alot of time . This way I immediately know where all the cutouts are .
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Here are a few clamps I make that were posted here long time back, for my welding table. Portable band saw I cut the parts for it on my table, gave the plans to many. Cut all the custom shaped parts for this 2" X 72" belt grinder.
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Some severe great ideas here! Following this thread :Like
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Here are a couple of things I made that I've found useful. I call this a tank spider:
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Nothing too fancy but here is some smaller shelves i built too hold rivets and bits and hardware

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Configured a new cart for my Hypertherm 65, cut down a hand truck from HF. Easy roll when needed.
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