Oxygen Acetylene Tank Cart.

1.6.2003
After getting new Oxygen Acetylene tanks for Christmas I figured a good project would be a welding cart to safely move my tanks around.
I spent about 8 hours on design work. All plans were done on 3x5 note cards and AutoCAD.
All parts are 1 inch square tubing unless otherwise noted.

Front Blue Print Side View Isometric View

The Isometric view is what I spent most my time on. It was a good exercise in keeping angles straight in my head and getting to play with AutoCAD some more.
Here is the AutoCAD Plans for download.

5.5.03
After a few months I have finally been able to finish this project.
I began by laying out the sides. I make sure that both the left and right side were the same. Once the two sides were welded I cut and welded the cross pieces. Also at this point the base was welded on. Other pieces were added, a handle bar and a Toolbox. The Tool box is made of thin sheet metal, I would have never been able to heat up the Steel tubing to weld the box on without vaporizing the tool box. I solved this by brazing the box on. The brass mixture melts at a lower temperature allowing me to attach the box.

There is a piece of "All-Thread" that sticks out between the tanks. A cross bar goes through it to hold the tanks to the cart.

During the month of April is snowed, it snowed a lot, most of the time was spent indoors. This is one the reasons this project took so long.

After the weather subsided, I was able to put on a primer coat . Followed by a coat of black paint. I spent around $80 on this project, between the steel, hardware, wheels ect...

I could have bought the cart for $40 but where is the fun in that?
I now have a beautifully finished tank cart.