Low and Slow......

[carolinasled]

Hey guys, here is a new stool that i have started building. She will run with a tecumseh 3.5 and clutch, yard carts wheels and tires, Air suspension(air cylinders), just thought i would start a project thread.....

pics with a shop rolling bench stool.

All flaming welcome, I'm a big boy......lol...........

 

[risto]

pretty good looking. Are those potato guns in the background?

 

[carolinasled]

The other guys on the other forum asked the same question...lol.... Yeppers its actually air cannon i built to shoot helium filled water ballons at a neighbor who likes to play practical jokes on each other while doing yard work. He lives 3 house's down and it shoots about 3-3.5 house's down the street depending on pressure. We've shot water ballons, 20oz plastice soda bottles filled with water, beer bottles, tennis balls, all kind of stuff, not at each other but messing around. Mostly tennis balls and water ballons at each other.

 

[carolinasled]

gotta a question for you guys.

So i'm doin a rat rod theme i belive and did some place sell a gokart white wall tire? like top right of hand page.

I know i can paint these. thought of just saving some trouble.

 

[carolinasled]

here is one the cylinders that will be used for air suspenion on the stool.

 

[2or3wheels]

sweet, can you raise and lower the pressure on them?

 

[carolinasled]

yeppers, I'm working on it to lay frame and pick it up to ride or lay and drag. Thought it would be different.

 

[RobertD]

looking awesome. post often i want to see more pics!

 

[carolinasled]

I will try. If i ever get to work on it again.....lol.....Its hard finding time to actually pulling out welder and chop saw and then cleaning everything up afterward since my wife and I use the garage everynight.

Here is what the front suspension will look like parralel to the frame, I'm thinking of mounting the cylinders vertically.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ipQhUhoeRk

here is what I plan on making the tires look like.
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2819220550069784236iMVvPH

How did your stool turn out robert?

 

[carolinasled]

Hey guys, finally found some time earlier tonight tonight to put in some work on the stool.

I got the arms complete with some bushings and get them mounted and all.
I used pvc shaved down,tapped into place as a bushing, so i want hafta to hear that metal to metal squeeking. arm mounts tacked into place and arms mounted.

thinkin of extending the frame and adding a pickup style wooden bed over the back behind the stool for that added ratrod look......

 

[kibble]

Hey, that's cool! How'd you get the end of the square pipe to be round like that?

 

[carolinasled]

Kibble, I bought a spare yard cart with no drivetrain and i robbed it of all its parts like wheels and tires, spindles, enginemount, tie rods etc etc. I just cut some round tubing off the cart. Some of the tubing was thin but the main rear section and the front is the thickest. So I notched the 1x1x1/8" with the side grinder "hint hint tube notcher would have been nice." and fitted it and welded both together.

Hope This helps.

Also what do you guys think... I'm thinking of extending the wheelbase like on the last pic i posted and adding the like a wooden truck bed over the motor kinda like this. But it wont be as long and the stool will be sittin frame.

http://www.dandsmotorsports.com/transporter_barstool_racer.htm

 

[kibble]

So I notched the 1x1x1/8" with the side grinder "hint hint tube notcher would have been nice." and fitted it and welded both together.

Oh yeah, I forgot about doing something like that, but then again I've never done it cuz I don't have a notcher either.

 

[carolinasled]

I've been hinting things like that to my wife for Christmas instead of like underwear....hahahahaha........

 

[2or3wheels]

i think a bed would be cool, just dont use to havy of wood otherwise you wont hae any acceleration with only a 3.5 horse.

 

[carolinasled]

Yeah the bed was going to be maybe as big as a radio flyer wagon.....Hmmmm....That might be a good bed for it??? maybe the one with the wooden sides.

 

[2or3wheels]

that would be cool

 

[carolinasled]

My intensions was to put air cylinders on this, But i believe i have came to the conclusion scratching that idea. I just dont want to put that kind of work in this project. I'm also not wanting to have an ongoing project. I'm just going to keep this basic. re-do pretty much all the work with a non-suspension stool.

 

[2or3wheels]

still cool

 

[crazycart]

i would at least mount some shocks on the front you already have the arms made its pretty simple to do