205 litres of toolbox!

efgiar · 02-06-2008, 10:35 PM

This is my new project being undertaken. Ive done all the work myself thus far and hopfully will be done within 2 weeks, still need to find good looking handles for it and a splash of paint

enjoy

BJ · 02-06-2008, 10:50 PM

Now that's different. Well done.

Auslandau · 02-06-2008, 10:50 PM

Impressive ...... Around $20.00 and a bit of spare time! Should come up a treat!!!!

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efgiar · 02-06-2008, 10:56 PM

cost a little bit more then 20 bucks ;) but still ALOT cheaper then what they try to flog off those supercrap ones for :P its my second barrel creation, my first being this

CLICKY CLICKY

blackers10 · 02-06-2008, 11:36 PM

awesome mate!!
should be a great conversation piece if anything else!!

JamesR · 03-06-2008, 12:16 AM

nice!
what you should do is put the top back on, but have a sealed layer under that with oil in it, so when you open the cap it appears to be full of oil.
haha

efgiar · 03-06-2008, 10:16 AM

The top section is getting put back on upside down, and will be making a new top for it, will have locators in the top of the bottom section so that the top section sits nicely.... if that makes sense... the oil suggestion sounds like a great idea, but they are going to to be moving alot and my welding skills (rather my pos welder) probably wouldnt make a good seal on it lol but hopefully tonight i will have the front panels put on and can start on the top section untill i get some more steel for the walls of the draws

efgiar · 03-06-2008, 06:49 PM

just finished the tacking on the lower section, just need to get the walls before i weld them in place, lines up pretty well apart from 1 join between the 2nd and 3rd draws, but pretty good i think for an auto elec :P

GK · 03-06-2008, 07:19 PM

That is most impressive. I can see a market for these items!

GK

efgiar · 30-06-2008, 10:10 PM

here is some 95% finished pics

this is what im doing to make it lockable, with holes drilled at the bottom and a padlock going on each one and one on the rear :P

draws closed

draws open

draws open and seperated

blackers10 · 30-06-2008, 10:26 PM

that is AWESOME mate!!

well done!

jaydee · 01-07-2008, 12:39 AM

Great job, only problem is it's upside down.
This is only the proto type, it is isn't it?
No seriously thats great, very inventive.

XR6-VCT-2000 · 01-07-2008, 01:31 AM

Very nice , although it would be good to put slits inside the draws and have the locking mechanism slide down through the holes in the draws from the top of the barrel , that way you dont have 2 big bars ruining the outside look of the toolbox runnig down the outside of it, awesome job though , very original , 9/10

Jorgo85 · 01-07-2008, 02:00 AM

That is excellent mate. Good to see another person who leaves the work area in a shambles. Makes you appear more industrious! lol

**gregaust** · 01-07-2008, 10:04 AM

That's awesome mate, Good work..

RG · 01-07-2008, 10:30 AM

Awesome, I love it. Sure beats those cheap pox Supercrap boxes.

**Full Noise** · 01-07-2008, 04:15 PM

This is very good. The cycle of life continues.

Let’s see.
Iron ore dug out of the ground.
Coal burned in a Coking oven.
Mixed together in a blast furnace.
Turned into steel coils at Pt Kembla.
Processed into sheet steel.
Sheet steel pressed into panels for a Leyland P76
P76 recycled and turned back into sheet steel.
Sheet steel turned into something really useful, a drum.
A really useful (and more reliable) drum turned into something even more useful… A toolbox.

Efgiar, you deserve to be nominated for the Nobel Prize for services to recycling and the environment.

plext · 01-07-2008, 04:23 PM

That's brilliant, very inventive.

Well done.

GRNKPR · 01-07-2008, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Full Noise

This is very good. The cycle of life continues.

Let’s see.
Iron ore dug out of the ground.
Coal burned in a Coking oven.
Mixed together in a blast furnace.
Turned into steel coils at Pt Kembla.
Processed into sheet steel.
Sheet steel pressed into panels for a Leyland P76
P76 recycled and turned back into sheet steel.
Sheet steel turned into something really useful, a drum.
A really useful (and more reliable) drum turned into something even more useful… A toolbox.

Efgiar, you deserve to be nominated for the Nobel Prize for services to recycling and the environment.

no you should be after thinking all this out ""I just thought it was an oil drum to toolbox conversion""

well done

Scott · 01-07-2008, 04:44 PM

Love this toolbox but I have a suggestion too. Instead of locking it at the front like that (which covers up you good work), have you thought about welding an eyelet on the back of each drawer and sliding down a locking bar from the top? The eyelets could be either inside the drum and out of sight or they could protrude out the back to make it easier to get the bar in situ?

Either way, looks great ;)

sly_ba · 01-07-2008, 04:44 PM

Outstanding mate. A few different skills involved there too.

MotherNatureVer2 · 01-07-2008, 07:10 PM

Excellent stuff. Now to start mass production, I can see a market for these :P

efgiar · 01-07-2008, 11:02 PM

hey guys, thanks for all the comments, gtp006, i did think of that but having tools inside it would be apain to leave an area clear just to lock it, but now that i think more, there is a small gap on the outside of the draw at the front, might be something to look into after i come back from sydney (the whole reason im building this

) but this is what i came up with, with the short amount of time i had (should be in paint by now, goes on the truck sunday morning to head to sydney) so its a bit of a rush lately, anywho, here is some more pics

well i made these handles for the toolbox

and the finished product minus cleaning up the welds and paint

b2tf · 01-07-2008, 11:47 PM

That's brilliant. Well done.

duaned · 02-07-2008, 12:26 AM

Now where's the matching esky?

efgiar · 02-07-2008, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by ddarby

Now where's the matching esky?

;) that will probably be the next thing to make out of a barrel, i was thinking a fridge but itll be too hard, esky is much easier

Scott · 02-07-2008, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by efgiar

hey guys, thanks for all the comments, gtp006, i did think of that but having tools inside it would be apain to leave an area clear just to lock it, but now that i think more, there is a small gap on the outside of the draw at the front, might be something to look into after i come back from sydney .......

Well for V2.... by the looks of it the backs of the drawers are flat which means that there should be space to weld an eyebolt or an eyelet that you could use for containing a locking bar and have it hidden from the world.

Tell you what, finish the one you are working on and send it to me for my professional opinion after you have painted it ;)

[Tonko] · 02-07-2008, 08:49 PM

Looks great!
Where do we send the order forms? :P

efgiar · 02-07-2008, 11:52 PM

lol, how long does a professional opinion take? :P but yeah thats an idea, but to improve on that idea and have it TOTALLY hidden, u could have the lock at the back of the draw, with 2 holes, and 1 bar, and you put it in 1 hole, it locks the draws, and then pull it out, turn it around 180 and put it in the hole directly behind it for hidding

if you catch my drift and the top flat bar is recessed in the top of the drum... and it totally hides the holes, and everything

efgiar · 02-07-2008, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by [Tonko]

Looks great!
Where do we send the order forms? :P

unfortunantly for you, i wont be making another one lol, way too much time spent, but ill do a 1 off, 100 zillion dollars!!!!!!