DIY Garbage Can Cart

[PHPaul]

Figured the board could use a little traffic, so...

I take out the trash for some housebound friends every week. Their wheelie-bins are a pain in the ass, too heavy to lug, too tippy to wheel and it's a bit of a walk to where the garbage men pick them up.

Making the whole thing out of PVC would be relatively expensive and flimsy and I have a raft of 1/2" EMT laying around. Question was, how to join them. Welding that thin, galvanized stuff was a last resort plan.

I rummaged around at Deep Homo and came up with a plan:

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Make some bushings by reaming out some 1/2" schedule 40 PVC with an 11/16ths end mill,

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Part them off at the socket depth (about 5/8ths),

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11/16ths is a tad small, but 3/4 is too big, so heat the end of the EMT and drive the bushing on flush. No pic but that swells them up just a tad too big to go in the socket so chuck the bushed EMT up in the lathe and turn them back down to size and,

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Tap everything together. I'll glue it once I'm happy with everything. It'll be a cube when I'm done, had to stop cuz Maw said the Lobstah was ready...Did some confuser work for druggie grand-niece and her babydaddy brought us a half dozen nice lobsters by way of a thank you.

I have some 12" plastic wheels (or I did anyway, haven't looked to be sure) off a high wheel push mower so I'll cobble up an axle and use those. Noodling an idea about how to rig handles and landing gear.

[GeneMO]

Wish someone would bring me some Lobster. That stuff is like gold here in the center of the country!!

Enjoy !!

Gene