Engine Stand for storage?
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Jerry Parr WI
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Made these from old bed frames. The bottom makes a place to store the loose parts. The cheap steel can be hard on saws and drills.
Frank Miller
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Here is the basic concept. For the Model A you would use 1 inch square tubing with a base equal to the oil pan. Two uprights on the left side with a connector that the pan rail would sit on. The other side would have four uprights so there is a space for the oil pump part of the pan.
http://www.jegs.com/p/Jegster/Jegster-Engine-Storage-Stands/746095/10002/-1
http://www.jegs.com/p/Jegster/Jegster-Engine-Storage-Stands/746095/10002/-1
Brubaker
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A friend of mine had a couple 'A' engine stands/frames(origin unknown) and was able to horse-trade for one. Bolts up nicely to the oil pan. trans end is away from the wheels and acts like a handle. I added the wheels(from an old rototiller) for convenience. Had to do all-terrain because my barn has a pee gravel floor. Frame, wheels still need to be painted. Has nice Fall patina though
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BRENT in 10-uh-C
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Fellow Fordbarner Will Cronkrite has a neat wooden cart he designed several years ago which I use here at the shop and he sells those detailed CAD plans on eBay. Click on Model A Cart to see them. If you buy the plans, build several and then sell one of them, you can recover the costs of your materials & the plans. Everyone that sees one in use likes them.
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Bruce Lancaster
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I have one of the wooden type shown, perhaps a clone or done from those plans.
Excellent, cheap, and as Brent suggests once you have bought the material and gotten out the saw it's probably nearly as easy to build a fleet as one.
Excellent, cheap, and as Brent suggests once you have bought the material and gotten out the saw it's probably nearly as easy to build a fleet as one.
Clydes 31 P/U
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I use the wooden furniture dollies they sell at Menards for around $20. I use them for the snow blower off the Cub and just about anything bulky, a snowmobile fits great on 2 of them.
Model A Fan
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I just received plans from a fellow Barner. It isn't fancy, but it looks sturdy and you can put a dolly underneath it too!
Wick
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I use a car wheel dolly. The ones you get at H.F. or Northern Tool to roll your car around the shop. The dip in the dolly the oil pan sits on. I can then roll the engine under my work bench. You can add a strap to secure but i havent.
Ive been using this method for 5 years now with no problems.
Wick
Ive been using this method for 5 years now with no problems.
Wick
Model A Fan
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Where do you find the casters for ones like Jerry showed? I have checked at Harbor Freight, Home Depot and Lowe's, but for casters able to hold 500lbs or more, you have to shell out $8-$10 a piece... 
azmodela
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Where do you find the casters for ones like Jerry showed? I have checked at Harbor Freight, Home Depot and Lowe's, but for casters able to hold 500lbs or more, you have to shell out $8-$10 a piece...
Are you putting the engine stand on one caster? Four casters rated at 250 lbs each could support a 1000 lbs engine. A complete A engine weights in around 500 lbs, so you should be fine with just about any caster you find.
Model A Fan
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Imanidiot.
I guess I thought it was going to crush them, even if the weight were distributed...
RonC
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this may work for you. It's $20 at Homedepot, has 4 wheels and holds 1000lbs. You could add two sides to stabilize the engine.
http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc...splay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053
http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc...splay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053
Rich in Tucson
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Have to go ultra-cheap these days, so I am using these which are routinely available for $7.99 each with a coupon:
http://www.harborfreight.com/movers-dolly-93888.html
Even with free wood I could not find hardware to build the equivalent for less.
http://www.harborfreight.com/movers-dolly-93888.html
Even with free wood I could not find hardware to build the equivalent for less.
Bruce Lancaster
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Another angle on weight: Model A and B engines drop a LOT of their weight if you leave off the head, flywheel, and flywheel housing. I don't have a number on that, but picking up an engine stripped to that point is fairly easy for two geezers with bad backs.
Another caster factor is smoothness of floors...on flat concrete a pretty flimsy caster can survive. I actually have a flathead V8 shortblock sitting on a $19.95 Home depot furniture dolly right now, an experiment*...the setup is obviously marginal (it would be a lot stronger if I simply planked over the middle) but it works. If I had to move it on a rough surface I am sure it would collapse...
*I went into experiment mode when I noted that even hopelessly inadequate casters in the store cost more EACH than this 4-wheeled platform!
Another caster factor is smoothness of floors...on flat concrete a pretty flimsy caster can survive. I actually have a flathead V8 shortblock sitting on a $19.95 Home depot furniture dolly right now, an experiment*...the setup is obviously marginal (it would be a lot stronger if I simply planked over the middle) but it works. If I had to move it on a rough surface I am sure it would collapse...
*I went into experiment mode when I noted that even hopelessly inadequate casters in the store cost more EACH than this 4-wheeled platform!
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mkmskm
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I plan to store the entire rebuilt engine so it will need to be strong. I also want something stable enough to hold the motor so I can occasionally turn it over to keep things lubricated. I like that angle iron suggestion if its something I can bolt together. I don't have any welding equipment but we do have a Metal by the Foot store nearby that would sell the steel.
