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Step 3Shopping Cart Engine Dolly

Shopping Cart Engine Dolly
This was the sort of well organized junkyard you find in places where land isn't cheap.
They weren't even draining the fluids onto the ground to make future oilwells.
They had a friendly mastiff puppy there. The dog was playful but whenever it came around work stopped. The guys backed up and stared at it with their arms pulled back and got into dog-management mode. That made me nervous. What was this dog capable of? I took my eyes off it while walking and it moved and I accidentally kicked it. For a half-second I was scared to death that my question would be answered, but it didn't care.

Here's a nifty engine dolly made from a shopping cart.
Most of the carts in the engine shed were either custom built or chopped off the bottom of a computer rack cabinet.
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Jul 5, 2010. 11:00 PMA good name says:
What fluids were they draining exactly?
Aug 12, 2010. 11:07 AMquadracer says:
crankcase oil, coolant, power steering fluid, trans fulid, brake fuild and freon to name a few. They dont want any leaky cars hanging out

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Tim Anderson is the author of the "Heirloom Technology" column in Make Magazine. He is co-founder of www.zcorp.com, manufacturers of "3D Printer" output devices. His detailed drawings of traditional ...
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