Thread: Repurposing unneeded equipment

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Most "hands-on" hot rodders have some equipment sitting around that they no longer need, but can't easily sell. Consider modifying it to serve an entirely different purpose. Below are two examples of useful equipment built out of no longer needed parts.

The first are some drill press bases and columns picked up on eBay and used as grinder bases.

The second shows two drill presses made from some junk drill press parts and two magnetic drills.

The other pictures are a rotary welding positioner made from an old Troyke rotary milling table and some drill press parts.

Like many things we re-purpose, once the "market" sees us wanting these things, the price jumps up quickly. Example being the cast iron legs from small lathes & other machines. The Home & Garden shows displayed a few tables using those legs and many machines suddenly gained in value because folks wanted to take the legs off to make tables to put in their house or resale.. In my neck of the woods, the bases from drill presses can be silly money, most guys are using wheels or old tables and throw away the top.

Some really great ides to reuse shop equipment, thanks for the post!