How to make strut-channel (Unistrut) trolleys from old door hinges
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- I was not paying $64 for these, so I made them myself for a fraction of that, and you can too -especially if you save old junk, like I do.
See the completed cabinet I built these for here: • Sliding cabinet hung w...
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The roll pins and brass bushings
make a home-made solution look
very classy. Great job.
I’ll be doing the same
Dude this is such a great idea. I was thinking, ya know $16 isn't too bad, but then realized I need about 8 of them, so this method is gonna be a fun and movey saving project. Thanks!
Brilliant. In the UK the trolley are £35 so that's like nearly 50 dollars ! and these look just as good. I have six trolleys fo take so that would have cost $300 I reckon I can do it now fro 20 quid. So yes you've definitely saved me a load of money. Thank you - and it was especially useful to get the correct dimensions and names for all the parts - otherwise it takes for ever to search them out.
Great ideas! Crazy way to hold the hinges while cutting! 3 fingered Joe is gonna happen, lol.
I suggest the hinge get screwed to a piece of plywood then you can keep your hands way clear and put better pressure to deal with the jigsaw backstroke.
Thanks - This is exactly what I needed for a few projects I'll be doing. I like your building style - you definatly think outside of the box.
I like your creation. But, I really like the "Three Finger Joe" sound track. Especially while watching the hinge plate dance witht the jigsaw.. Just a thought but maybe you could adapt a cutoff disc to your bench grinder?
Very smart. Thanks for the tip. HF used to have them years ago but when I was ready to get some they were no longer available. This is the answer. Thank you.
You are the King of Kluge. Reminds me of my younger self - minimal tool collection but an excellent awareness of the importance of what many people just throw away.
For an even cheaper build one could use the hinge pins and then use the part of the hinge that links the two sides as bushings.
Keep on hacking.
Thank you. I was going mad yesterday at the cost of these roller hooks from unistrut. Now I`m make my own. Many thanks.
necessity is the mother of all inventions!!!👏
Perfect! I am going to hang from a bracket, my TV flatscreen in front of my shelves in my shop. Then slide my tv out of the way when not watching TV. Thx for posting video.
Thanks for the hardware dimensions. I'm making single trolleys for welding curtains.
Spectacular results! What a great idea and implementation.
Bonus points for using the "Skake Hands With Danger" riff!
608 bearings are easy to find. Skateboards, inline skates, scooter wheels, etc. use them. Also a lot of the fidget spinners, too.
Great combined use of old stuff and grey matter. I recently bought some unistrut and a couple of the genuine 4 bearing trolleys and wow, the two trollys were dearer than the actual unistrut! I listened to you reel off imperial sizes and thought how much easier it is with metric. When we changed over, money first then measurements later I was not a convert but over 50 years later I realise just how bloody easy metric is compared with having to remember all those fractional sizes. One idea is when you get stuff in metric, try using that standard for that job, i.e. convert your other purchases from imp to metric and see how you go. Also fyi, many Americans do use metric.
Lol I laughed when the shake hands with danger started playing because it was playing in my head as soon as I saw the contraption before hand. But at least three finger Joe, is just three finger Joe...
This was EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thank you!!!
Hey Three fingers Joe. Shake hands with danger. I love these make shift tools it shows true ingenuity.
That bearing 608zz is used in in-line skate (Rollerblade) wheels, one set of skates = 16 bearings. Easy to get old/used/outgrown skates for cheap or free.
I need a festoon for hoist power cable hanging from unistrut. Great idea and repurpose.
Great idea. Just when I'm starting the shed build... not quite to the sliding doors yet... though will keep in mind for certain. Thanks for sharing!
SHAKE HANDS WITH DANGER !....=)......Really impressive for soo many reasons......Thanks for sharing your genius
Lack of tools sometimes bring ingenious ideas to make parts with available tools. I have done the same thing.
Thanks for making this video. This is going to save me a bunch on my build.
Great project and brilliant idea. Thanks for sharing.
The outside race is 7.0mm wide, but the INSIDE race is 7.2mm, to give a 0.1mm relief on each side, so set on a flat surface you can still (barely) spin the outer race while the inner race supports it....
Just thought I'd add that piece of info since these are (I think) the most common size of bearings out there. They are used on skateboard wheels, many power tools, heck, even the majority of fidget spinners that I've run across.
Thanks for this. Just what I was looking for
For really cheap slide - Couldn't you skip the bearings and use pins with brass tube as a bushing? That might give you clearance to not need to modify the hinge. Great work! I guess skipping the bearing is only possible for light loads or something not used frequently.
Thank you so much. I was looking for this all week! Thanks so much for this video.
That has got to be one of the scariest methods for cutting flat stock I've seen in awhile!
Very nice setup I'll have to give these a go myself, keep up the good work.
NICE theme music when you cut the hinges !!
Thks
2-wheel trolleys (what this item most closely represents) are now $36 for each.
The extra piece is like I'm free!
I subscribed because the makeshift tool build. But was impressed because choice of song
very creative!!
Nice music! Three fingered Joe :) but I think you took significant safety measures. I generally don't like video's like this but I thought you did a great job on this. As an inventor I do things like this all the time. Just never thought about making a video :) You have inspired me to create a similar device to maximize my hardware storage!
Good video, gives me some ideas! Thank You
You can screw the hinge to a wood scrap to push it through. Instead of a hinge, flat bar is dirt cheap.
Nice work! Thanks for the video!!
Good video. Good info. Very appropriate music!
Very good idea!!
Good old skateboard bearings
Good job!
spot weld the tabs on the hinges tho
Way cool!!!
into the favorites this goes!!
The song is hilarious at 9:10...
I pissed myself🤣
Little over quarter inch inside 7.3mm is quarter inch I believe I'm from Enumclaw Washington but I love the metric system for some reason it's alot simpler lol. But very. Nice work man!
...and David, after not too long years you will come to appreciate using a simple number count system to dimension objects. I do wonder why Americans don't embrace the obvious benefits of metric. Having convert to imp is just so tedious and useless really. For this job give or take, Unistrut ID=38mm, hinge=2mm, spacer=10mm, bearing width=7mm. So 2+(2x10)+(2x7)=36mm. Leaves 1mm clearance each side. Too easy and not an 11/64th in sight. NASA uses metric and only 3 countries don't officially use Metric. Myanmar (Burma), Liberia and the United States.
It would be way easier and safer to put those roll pins in a drill and spin that against the stone to get the bevel. Much more even & you won't lose your fingers!
Thank you, Good deal.
Great work
Awesome Video!!!
How have you found these working?
A lot of people who have bought the “economy” bearings found the tolerances slopping and poor rolling.
I have guesstimated I need 64 bearing to do the projects I would like.
Cheers
Genius!
Great video.
Am I correct in assuming you could put a bolt through the bushing and bearing instead a roll pin? Was thinking about attaching multiple bearings along one side of a piece of aluminum angle that will hold up some plywood. One of these fab's on both sides of the plywood to roll in and out of my truck. Am I missing something stupid? Great video, btw!
You ever find your idea? Was thinking of doing same kind of thing for a truck bed slide. And drawer rollers.
I was planning on doing this after i saw the price of trolleys, any ideas on how to lock trolley in place easily then unlock to roll out of the way? PS loved the song, i'm the HS rep at work.
where did you get the roll-pins? Nice idea!
Harbor Freight has them as an assortment. www.harborfreight.com/120-piece-roll-pin-storehouse-67591.html
You the man !!!!
Thanks
I would of drilled the hinge into a 1x4 piece of lumber so that I could hold the lumber while pushing the hinge through that saw. Yikes!
Ok so I have a wired pool table light above my 9 foot pool table. I wanna get a ping pong top to play ping pong too but light is in the way.. I was thinking of adding a plug to the light and connect it to thoese retractable extension cords. The retractable extension cord will be plug in into garahe ceiling outlet...then I wanted to mount light on two unistrut rails with a trolley to move it out of the way whenever we wanted to play ping pong. Can this be done and do you think it will work?? Basically wanna move pool table light back and forth when playing pool or ping pong..that's why I wanna get the retractable extension cord so it can retract when rolling light out of the way to play ping pong or move it back to play pool
Of course it will work because you can make it work. Is it the best way? Can't say. For festooning cable like you see on professional hoist systems (loop-insulator, loop-insulator, loop-insulator etc) you can use plastic insulators running on some 2mm steel cable that in turn support your light power cable. Insulators have two holes 90-degrees opposed. Like these: www.rappa.co.uk/categories/35-anchor-insulators. Festoon means like this: ruclips.net/video/KJXbOYrOMxI/видео.html
Go for it!
Nice thank u
My cousin (Johnny Knuckles) hung out with Three finger back in the day.
I did like your idea for the trolleys, but your risky work practices made me nervous for the future of your fingers. A smooth table to hold your jig saw, without the protruding bolt heads which were interfering with the workpiece would be worthwhile. Next thing would be to use a push stick to keep your fingers well out of danger, and finally best to never wear gloves when using a bench grinder. Gloves can catch in the wheel and drag your hand in, not good.
My last suggestion would be to change the pins in the hinge for a suitable socket head cap screw and a nyloc nut, because I have had those pins work out on a canopy door hinges on my ute, (pickup for you Americans) or else dispense with the hinge altogether and just use some suitable flat bar instead.
As I mentioned first up, a nice idea and a good way to save a fair bit of cash avoiding the over priced Uni Strut offerings, I plan to make some for a monorail over my lathe to lift chucks when changing and also some heavier workpieces, thanks for your efforts in making the video.
I am hearing (Baby please don’t go).
Proving people with limited tools can do things too, they just have to put a little thought and time in.
I use elevator bolts.
why not just use 8mm allthread
Amazes me how much effort and risk of physical injury people will accept to save 40 bucks. Plus the time spent. And I am certainly NOT well off. A 10 foot section of unistrut is close to 50 bucks now.
It seems you saved time by commenting before watching the video.
@@jasonandersen5975 Went back and rewatched some of the video. Jesus Christ! If your fingers are only worth 64 bucks then...well I don't really know what else to say. Maybe Good Luck stubby?
@@gailtaylor1636 I guess you missed the point.
@@jasonandersen5975 You gonna have to explain it to me then.
E X C E L L E N T.
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Very well done, but time is money, soooo I'm not sure ?
8:41 hahahaha
Be careful!
great job, but you did 100 dollars worth of work to save 16 lol
just use a dermel with a cutting wheel.
very nice. Not to be a safety nazi, but I'd avoid wearing gloves with those power tools.
$24 by Unistrut seems reasonable to me.
Still cheaper in terms of your time just to spend the $16 and get one ready made. I bet you it takes at least an hour to make one of these and most folks these days can earn more than that in one hour.
3 fingers lol
dont rind with gloves on, they can pull yo hand in