Swing Seat Hinges

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My wife showed me a pic of a renovated street car swing seat. I can't find it on my phone but these are similar.

They'd be awesome in the shop!

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The one I saw before was actually installed in a shop and swung out so you could use it at a drill press, leather station or anywhere a stationery seat would be ideal.

Wish I could find some of these!
 
My elementary and high school shop classes had those and I wouldn't want them for anything.

Although I do like that cast iron and real wood look
 
Yeah, I've never sat on one, so I couldn't say for sure that they'd be right. I saw one where the hinge wrapped around the outside of your legs so that you didn't have to straddle the hardware. It looked more appropriate, but again, I couldn't know for sure. That one was used in, what looked to be, a woodworking shop.

I had a chair from the 1940's, all wood, and I swear that was one of the most comfortable and solid chairs I'd ever owned. It looked like it might be uncomfortable, but really wasn't. Thought maybe these might be the same, but I'd take your word for it. :)
 
I'm having a second look at that photo, the ones I used were different, mounted on a vertical post at east you could adjust the height.
 
Those really suit that kitchen well. :thumbup: :cool:

I have used some that I loved, and some that I hated. Don't currently have any in the shop, but I could certainly add one or three to my big fab table.



This is a bit of an off-topic rant, but it does tie in to the subject strig... ;) :foot:


I used to work at one of the biggest craft paper mills in North America (so it's a BIG place). They have half a dozen on site fab shops that would put most fab shops in town to shame... LOTS of HUGE, amazing, very expensive tools/machines/equipment.

Most of the big welding tables in their fab shops had swing out stools. The ones that were bare steel sucked! LOL But many of them had been topped with a piece of 2" thick neopreme foam, and those were quite comfortable.

They SCRAPPED one of the tables and it killed me not to be able to buy it (even though I didn't have room for it at the time! LOL). It was 7' wide x 11-1/2' long x 1-3/4" thick plate top, legs were VERY stout wide-flange, it had tubing mounted underneath for storing rods/bars/all-thread/etc., wired with several receptacles (all in conduit of course), and a swing out stool on each corner that was adjustable in/out and up/down!!! :eek: :cool:

But NOPE... they wouldn't sell anything like that to employees or the public... just send it to scrap.

It's probably already back here in the form of 100 Chicom drill presses and bumpers. :grumpy:
 
Piece by piece?

Why are corporations so silly? We have tons (literally) of steel in the bone yard rusting away at the factory, but they wouldn't dream of letting some of it go. A guy could build a whole shop from the scraps and not even put a dent in the "waste". Don't even get me started on all of the Baldor, Leeson and other motors just sitting there, then there's the rod, tubing, pipe, electrical components, bearings, pillow blocks, chairs, table tops (mostly stainless) and storage items that'll never be used. :mad: :thumbdown:
 
Strigamort said:
Piece by piece?

Why are corporations so silly? We have tons (literally) of steel in the bone yard rusting away at the factory, but they wouldn't dream of letting some of it go. A guy could build a whole shop from the scraps and not even put a dent in the "waste". Don't even get me started on all of the Baldor, Leeson and other motors just sitting there, then there's the rod, tubing, pipe, electrical components, bearings, pillow blocks, chairs, table tops (mostly stainless) and storage items that'll never be used. :mad: :thumbdown:
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Get to know your scrap yards in these instances... Provided the company doesn't crush/strip stuff prior to hauling it off, you could possibly get the scrap yard to sell it to you... Just know when the company is hauling it off and buy it on the back end. I have discovered scrap yards to be a little less particular about who buys stuff from them, but just concerned about the resulting revenue...

Of course, like Strig's situation, if they aren't going to scrap it either you are just SOL I guess...

-Eric
 
Patrice Lemée;13389929 said:
Anyway you can? :p
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Sam- Our friend Pat hit the proverbial nail right on the head! ;) :D

14,000 gross trailer, engine hoist, pinch bars, some cribbing blocks, and my 6,000# pallet jack... EASY PEASY! :)


Synthesist- Yea, that's nuts! :eek:

The one thing they would sell at my old workplace was surplus/old/un-wanted office furniture. My crew had to go in and remove the stuff whenever a work order came up. I cannot even tell you how many of those 1950's, 200 pound metal desks (aka: office tanks) we removed and put in employee sales. There was an electrician there that would buy them for $1.11 in a silent auction type bidding set-up. Don't ask me where he came up with that number! LMAO. He must have bought 45-50 of those desks in the 3 years I worked there, and I could never figure out what the hell he did with them back then. :confused:

Well, if you go into the cities north and south of here, you find fancy pantz people that think those desks are "retro-chic" and can't live without having one (apparently, much like a swing out stool!). So there are stores in Seattle and Portland that sell those old tank desks for $300-400 as fast as they can get them in!!! Shoot, my sister and B-I-L were all giddy because they found one for like $100.

If I had only known back then!!!! :foot: :)

http://krrb.com/posts/28874-mid-century-steel-tanker-desk
 
Eric, it wasn't always that way at the plant. Back in 07, when I first got interested in making knives (but had no idea about what to do, or look for) we had an engineer that had a particular fondness for me. He would sign off on absolutely anything that I wanted. I just didn't know what I wanted. :( Unfortunately he died a couple of years ago from complications related to asbestos exposure. :( He was a really good guy.

Even back then we had a SS company that was based on premises. The owner has a permanent crew of guys that weld and do maintenance full time there. Most scrap is handled by him (if I understand it correctly). One things for sure, the owner is a millionaire in the double digits.

I saw those Urban Chicago swing seats while looking for the pic my wife showed me. Pretty cool, but waaay over priced. All I'd really want is the hinge. A comfortable seat would be easy enough to mount. Then again, for $800, we could probably get Nathan to machine some seriously bad ass aluminum pieces to do the job.

There's a huge blacksmith business on the outskirts of town that I've been meaning to look in on. You can see it from a few hundred yards away due to the awesome 10' tall anvil out front (great detail on that). He has huge racks of WI and steel on the side of the building. I wonder if they could fab something like that up.
 
NickWheeler said:
Sam- Our friend Pat hit the proverbial nail right on the head! ;) :D

14,000 gross trailer, engine hoist, pinch bars, some cribbing blocks, and my 6,000# pallet jack... EASY PEASY! :)
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You forgot the nearest tree and a chain fall

I'd make it work too, but if I have to work that hard I'd rather do it for old American cast iron.
 
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