Build a Milk Crate Cart

Step 4 Add handle

So we really didn't know how we were going to attach the handle, but we knew it had to be simple.

Now, the handle had a series of pre-drilled holes, so we thought we could find something to run through it, and attach to the cart.

We wandered around Lowes, and wound up in the fasteners aisle. In the drawers of specialty fasteners, we found something called a 'Wire Lock Pin'. I have no idea what its intended purpose is, but we knew it would easily hold our handle to our crate.

However, there was one caveat. The Wire Lock Pin didn't actually lock, the pin just slid through the eye.

So we got a hitch pin, and I told Max that we would drill a hole through the Wire Lock Pin, so it would stay put.

To complete handle assembly, make sure the pin from the Wire Lock Pin fits through the hole in the handle. If it doesn't, or a hole doesn't exist, you will need to drill one.

Next, drill a hole in the Wire Lock Pin so the hitch pin will hold the Wire Lock Pin together.

When this is done, thread the Wire Lock Pin through the milk crate and then through the handle, lock in place with the hitch pin.