Metal Shaping: How to make a simple air tool holder

Hi, it's ray from Pro Shaper in Charlton and tonight we had intended to do an e-type build

Segment we were going to do that last piece on the power bulge in the back there

But we just didn't have the time so this week we're just doing a little fill-in video and

everybody loves tools and this is a tool I've been using for about six years or so and

It's a nice little air tool holder. There's a bunch of them out there in the marketplace

I don't believe there's anything like this in the marketplace. I came up with this design a while back and

As you can see it's a linear design if you I have longer ones too

You can put 20 air tools or so on it I think this has room for 11 on it and it's a nice portable unit

You can put some handles on it or something and take your ear tools to the job

So just going to give you a quick overview on how to make one

And you can see the assembly and how good it works. You can also change the

Design a little bit if you make one leg a little longer you can tilt them like that

But I find them pretty user-friendly just this way You put them on a flat bench and all your air tools are there

I designed it so that there's enough spacing so you can get a hand in there yet

It's tight so you can get more tools in there too. So you have that compromise

So it works really well And what I going to do is break it down and show you that the components of it and then we going to show you a drawing I did of it and It be on my website to the drawing and of course we put the video probably up on the website to proshaper and

You'll be able to make one yourself by using dimensions on the drawing

So next I'm going to take it all apart. You can see just the components of it. All right, so now we're taking it apart

I Was a late adapter to these

Electric cordless screwdrivers This is a Ryobi one. I think it's about twenty-something dollars

Got reverse and changes into this the actual screwdriver configuration Unbelievable good tool tremendous torque in it. I love it. I I

Don't know what I was thinking all those years. I didn't have one All right

So this is some steel 18 gauge that was powder coated. I have a friend that supplies me with all kinds of various metals

And I got a lot of this stock so We bent it up in the brake

Before we bent it up we've marked out the holes and we have this proper spacing and everything so you got room for putting the tools

And these are the securing holes for securing this this is PVC

Trim board that's used in house construction a friend of mine's a home builder

And these are all little leftover pieces from a job about six years ago

And he gave me a whole bunch of them and I been using them for a while It good for other things too It a really solid pretty straight You can actually bend it with heat

But it works really good With this tool and it allows it to stabilize so the tool you put it in like this see that would rock around

So you need something I have made them actually with wood Wood will work to piece of plywood or something or hardwood, but I like this PVC stuff really nice

It drills nice and the whole bit so that's just secured with a couple sheet metal screws and

It's pretty easy to do These Ends are different on everybody's tools is about four formats for these air

Tool ends. This is called a true flate. I've used true flate since I was a kid when I was working at my grandfather's

He had true flate so I thought the world was all true flate and then later on

I found out there's universal and there's a couple other formulas and

But I stayed with the truth late so all my air tools have truth late. So that diameter is like

470 thousandths, so that's the diameter of the holes that we did

So it gives you just a little bit of clearance If you have one of the other formula air tool holders air tool ends

You'll probably have to come up with the measurement there and change that dimension. That's on my drawing

That's true for the true flight only so am I still on

Okay, so here's the drawing that they did and this is a 15 inch

Model and I think it about Six inches wide or so at the base This leg is three quarter and it got a height of inch and a quarter

You need that for the nipple to come down without hitting the bench and we got 15 inches overall length here and

Then we have the spacing on the holes We have to stagger the holes from side to side on this side. It's an inch and a quarter and then in two and a half inches apart

and on this side you get the two and a half inch so you have the stagger that gives you the room for the tools and

As I mentioned that's the 470 diameter 170,000 you'll have to convert this to metric if you're in the metric world and these are 316

diameter holes for the securing Screws that hold the PVC in hand the PVC is 3 quarters and it's 4 inches wide here

And I think that covers all the dimensions in the drawing will be on my website

Plus it'll be embedded in the in the video and you can just do a print screen

And then you'll make your own copy of it if you want or go on the website

But that's it makes a really nice little air tool holder easy to put together and I hope that helps out

It's racialine from Pro Shaper and We'll be back next week with part 8 of building

the all aluminum e-type bonnet we want to be making that back piece over there

so see you next week thank you