Antique Factory Cart Restoration

[@jimneely4527]

I realize that you probably don't want to read this, but I like the wood and metal project. If it pays the bills, do it. Thanks for sharing.

[@arnokuijpers4079]

Stunning!

[@w.davidmcguinn8674]

You are the Southern DiResta. More woodworking even if you hate it. Keep up the good work. David McGuinn.

[@roberta4989]

Cart turned out great! She will be telling everyone who did it. Get ready for the phone calls and emails of project request from her contacts. OH geez! and more cowbell, we need more cowbell...

[@richbrannon5562]

I love a field trip

[@htownblue11]

TAY drives a Real Man’s SUV! I am a proud E70 X5 owner too. I knew we were brothers from another mother!😂😂😂. Cool project man.

[@Jeff.the.senior]

Nice Project !! You need to do an update on your office space. I work in IT and we do a lot of diagraming on "whiteboards", But the best whiteboard is actually not a whiteboard but a large piece of glass on a white wall or one side sandblasted. Use the shiny surface for the dry erase. Take digital pictures of your whiteboard concepts and make a scrap book. One of the things I loved from your Dad's salvage dawg shows was his sketching out his ideas before fabrication and then the commentary on why the pieces he chose. Follow more of his style and with your craftiness you will get this channel to 100K subscribers in no time

[@thomaspoeta6308]

We say "bonk" the negative comments! You rock in our world! Tom and Peggy (she loves her T-shirt).

[@bamboozler8459]

Enjoying your videos from Bakersfield, Calif.

[@Metalcrafter]

My wife doesn't understand why I hate working with wood instead of metal. You clearly exemplified all of the nuances of wood suckdom. I will direct her to this video the next time she tries to coax me into a project by telling me how "easy" working with wood is. Thanks.

[@rickfazzini22]

Great work! Looks like such a fun place to work. I think the shrinking problem was due to the use of the impact gun sucking the washers into the wood and taking away your spacing.

[@ChloeDarko]

Great start to the weekend!

[@LouJustlou]

The project came out great.... now you will get 50 more to do! Thank Mike for the Eco Relic shout-out. I purchase material from them all the time. The parts for my trumpet and trombone lamps came from them. 😊

[@craigfuller6187]

Super cool build. I have one also. Now need to get it together.

[@cae2487]

The least I can do for all your troubles and hard work on this cart table I gift to you one comment and one thumbs up for the algorithm.

[@LiftArcStudios]

We thank you for your service, the algorithm gods have let us live another day.

[@dirkkelly9596]

Black dog remake lol,love it 👍👍

[@fredperry2358]

Loved this video guys, nice to see you sorta get back to your “roots”, so to speak. I also remembered to order a shirt! Thanks for the entertainment.

[@billroberts3864]

Tay, you did a fantastic job on the little cart. I remember when Black Dog removed some carts from a big warehouse job you guys were on. You may not like woodworking but you made that cart look great and the girl loved the cart also.

[@CorpusChristiHouston]

Variety is the spice of life

[@lisastephan2846]

Awesome build

[@trevorpalmer1891]

Great fun nice job!

[@passacaglia28]

So creative and fascinating! Love the beats in the background as well.

[@curtiszeitelhack981]

Lotta work. Looks great!, Happy customer.. Ended well. Congrats!

[@vorant77]

Really enjoyed the episode, it's nice to change things up a bit.😉

[@Jeffrose_]

Great video 😊

[@russellgnuse]

That was awesome I love working with both wood and steel great video

[@SchysCraftCo.]

So happy to see a brand new video Tay and the gang. Can't wait to see more videos soon. This project turned out very awesome. Great job. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Forge On. Fab On. Weld On Keep forge lit. Keep Making. God Bless.

[@mikecurtis2585]

Nice looks great! Those always turn out great 👍👍👍

[@Stormin06096]

Great Job! There are some great lessons in this build. Always remember plumb, level and square and as you said make the glass smaller than what you think. I try to strive for too much precision and it usually bites me in the butt. Most customers would never know if the clearance was 1/32 or 1/8, they look at the 30,000 foot view and see a great product.

[@daveloderhose874]

I’m so proud of myself because I saw the rounded corner thing coming.

[@warrenjones744]

Tay have you ever finished metal with clear shellac? If not, try it some day, I think you will be pleased. One of my favorite looks is simply wire brush rusty metal fittings and shellac over it. Poly is a plastic and it looks plastic. Shellac has a different look and is real durable

[@justintasht1067]

Looks absolutely amazing really like it. Great work as always 👍👍

[@adammichaelis]

Instead of sanding the top of the cart to level it for glass I use different thicknesses of clear drawer bumpers. This also pads the glass so you don't get the rattle as well

[@staceyhetland]

FYI There is a 8 point socket that is made to remove square nut’s also

[@762x54rr]

I have watched you for a while and didn't realize you where in the Roanoke area until you said when you worked at black dog and that I literally worked 2 streets over from you for 2 years before I moved to WV in Dec!

[@kimphillips2998]

I use to build them Factory carts in 1970 to 1971 when I was in high school in Faribault Minnesota nutting truck😊

[@Knautschfriese]

Good Job! 😺

[@phillipclemons8031]

Nice!

[@bamboozler8459]

Do you not have the mill still to square those corners?

[@patrickgreen9747]

Penetrol works really really good to coat those metal parts. I think it’s better than poly. Didn’t know if you have ever used it..??

[@miscbits6399]

I think as a final touch, running around the entire top with a 2 inch strip of "helicopter tape" would protect the glass from minor warp shock stress as it moves aeound, fill out any unevenness and still look great

[@johnpope4464]

CCR has a great rust remover

[@sheldon-dy2zq]

Defeats the purpose

[@brianmcmahon2216]

When my dog does that big stretch. I say "Yes, dog.... bow to me" 😂

[@andrewwakefield4519]

It came out looking great. But I kept thinking, at some point it would seem easier and better to re-order the glass to a smaller size - ?

[@LiftArcStudios]

Spensive

[@andrewwakefield4519]

@@LiftArcStudios I wondered about that. I don't have a frame of reference for what that thickness and size of tempered glass costs, but figured it must be expensive. Thanks for the great videos!

[@82gamerprincess31]

I think i would have taken the corners off and squared up the pieces using glue, screws in between the bolt holes, and clamps. Then put the corners back on as decoration over the screw holes. You’d never see it and it would have been much easier to square and flatten the wood. Getting wood to square with 4 loose brackets is a little like spinning plates lol.

[@wvrockcrusher]

Cart really turned out nice Tay! I actually have one very similar waiting for its day in the sun. I passed on a pair of them at an auction a while back and have kicked myself ever since for not coming off the hundred bucks to take them home, which was really dumb. Wood isn't my medium of choice either, but I like a break from metal once in a while. You really hit it right with the look of the wood. Maybe you've already tried these on metal, but I like to bounce around between Penetrol, linseed oil, and beeswax. If I want a little darker color and penetration, I like to heat the metal before applying the finish, then buff it off with a soft towel. This is used quite a bit in the blacksmithing crowd to seal the metal from rusting. On an unrelated note...I was curious if you ever got the Ellis saw motor to run right after replacing the motor?

[@Dgreencouch29]

Hmmm would a sand blast cabinet be helpful for the hardware? at least the smaller parts

[@25zerotwo]

Is there a reason you wouldn't loosen and then pop the glass on and then gently tighten to get it square / fit.?

[@WayneWerner]

Talking about black dog salvage and the black dog right behind you was clearly asking for pets! Just ignoring the pupper like that 😢😢

[@charliemckay6402]

The restaurants in Ontario Canada cannot get enough antique carts from a local antique dealer.

[@markdangelo582]

Is the band saw still acting up?

[@stevenleland8547]

I would totally wear a tshirt that says “providing your schadenfreude”

[@kellycoston589]

You should try out some evaporust

[@cferguson3368]

I love working with wood for the reasons you dislike working with wood.

[@cferguson3368]

An application of 50/50 bleach or oxalic acid would likely have gotten rid of the grey. However, it would also have removed the brown from the wood, so you would have had to have added stain to get the brown back. If you ever decide to work with water stained wood again, one good strategy is to skip bleaching or oxalic acid and, instead, apply a light grey stain followed by a medium brown stain. I've really good luck with General Finishes & Black Dog Salvage clear coat (matt is my preference). If you want to get really fancy, use a General Finishes, umber glaze to really add some luster. I thoroughly did enjoy your frustration.

[@jackcollins2344]

how do you not remember to ask for a radius, on all four corners just wondering

[@Joshua1_7sc]

for next time, just do the washers on the upper bolts/nuts

[@MichaelRoachWV]

4:10 - he's looking at you like, the electric hoist? Really tay? I had a bad feeling as soon as you started welding the angle corners :/ I 100% feel you on woodworking though. As soon as I was 100% done with wood, my wife came up with *many* a woodworking projects

[@bpdp379]

So, what happened to your window?😂

[@Morrisonspouch]

How to make a simple job complicated

[@darknimesis]

out of curiosity, how much did the glass cost?

[@LiftArcStudios]

400+ bucks at our local glass company

[@sheldon-dy2zq]

Glass top extremely impractical

[@LiftArcStudios]

Unless you want an easy to clean surface that allows you to see the hardware underneath?

[@jknorene9527]

You need a Ironworker 30 Ton

[@magomat6756]

Paint it black the iron and then take it off with a cloth

[@jeffreyhallam5517]

Coffee tables with glass tops are examples of terrible ideas. Every person I have ever met uses their coffee table as a makeshift desk so they can do paperwork or hobby projects in the living room while watching TV. Glass tops are too delicate for that. I made a coffee table with the assumption that I would be doing work on it. It has a five inch apron on three sides that I can fix claps to and the fourth has a built in bench vice. I can sit on the floor and it is perfect height for desk work, laptop, pen and paper, exacto knife and strait edge cutting etc. I acknowledge that this factory cart coffee table LOOKS good. I just think too few people are honest about what they do with their coffee tables.

[@johnpope4464]

Could have opened the corners 1/4 an would have fit

[@TERRYB0688]

Lots of man hours in this project, $$$$, could have removed the corners glued and screwed the corners square and flat then refitted the steel corners oh and 3 don’t take the project in the first place 😁😮

[@jackcollins2344]

and not make sure the cart is completely square before ordering glass

[@Nick-ih5em]

Ummm 1st? 🤣

[@ChloeDarko]

😶‍🌫

[@hillppari]

glass top? absolute worst idea. cant use it for anything

[@LiftArcStudios]

lol

[@sheldon-dy2zq]

You should not only work metal. This is narrow thinking

[@LiftArcStudios]

I was a fine woodworker for 10 years my guy!