Projecting, tinkering, fiddle-farting around: whatcha building? (6 Viewers)

[Waorani]

Bought this plate from SWAG Off Road years ago and finally got around to setting up my old portaband. Original plan was to do a square tube frame but got to looking at some scrap plywood and knocked out this base today. Thinking it might be useful as a bench top saw for small/quick cuts. At least it's got more potential for use than buried in a cabinet.

 

[Waorani]

Latest distraction from what I should be working on - picked up 2 Champion R40 15hp compressors for cheap from city auction. Newer one supposedly runs fine but had bad oil leak. Turned out to be leaking from low oil shut-down switch which was installed wrong. Will try to run it this weekend. Older one supposedly also runs but has a bad vibration. I'm tearing it apart to try to find source and just to learn. So far nothing obvious except the rotten boards it was bolted to. That big piston is 6 1/4" across!