Date:         Sat, 15 Nov 2014 15:22:42 -0500
Reply-To:     Marc Perdue <mcperdue@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Marc Perdue <mcperdue@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Roof rack
In-Reply-To:  <5467A5CB.7060107@cfu.net>
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Best shop tool I've seen was a shopping cart with the basket removed
and a Harley Davidson motorcycle seat mounted on the base. Built by a
friend who builds sprint racers, it was very comfortable and easily
scooted around the garage floor and put him right at the right height
for much of the work he did. I sure could use one for working on my
van . . .

Marc Perdue

On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Max Wellhouse <dimwittedmoose@cfu.net> wrote:
> On 11/15/2014 12:16 PM, Vincent Dow wrote:
>>
>> Oooh, I like this.
>>
>> Safeway used to have their own proprietary cart style... it was a high
>> mounted basket, with not very deep sides. It was just about 16" deep.
>> Luckys on the other hand had the traditional deep basket, with a
>> hard-to-access bottom tray.
>>
>> Those stainless steel shopping carts are going to seem very old-timey
>> before we know it.
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Harry Hoffman <hhoffman@ip-solutions.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Was this a full size shopping cart or one of those mini shopping carts?
>>>
>>> Full-size would seem huge.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Harry
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/15/14 11:46 AM, Don Hanson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yesterday I saw a small honda car with a shopping cart mounted to the
>>>> roof.    Similar to those gear baskets that Thule or Yakima sells for
>>>> hundreds of bucks, this fellow removed the castors from the cart,
>>>> painted
>>>> it black, and mounted it to the cross bars on his roof to carry HIS gear
>>>> along...It actually looked pretty allright, that cart on the little
>>>
>>> Honda...
>
> I think Kroger's carts were of the 16" variety also.  Another use for
> the caster/frame of the deep baskets is to make either a small rolling
> cart out of it or mechanic's stool   The $10 I bought at a flea
> market(heck the casters were worth the $10) had a bit of an angle to it,
> if you shim that up to where it's level, I've had several hundred pounds
> of tools on that frame and it could easily support and engine or tranny
> if you had it out of the vehicle and tinkering or cleaning.   YMMV
>
> DM&FS