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    Swing away tool box shelf

    I recently bought a wooden tool box to store some of me lathe tooling in but kind of wanted to mount it out of the way
    I had a couple of old Hotel Television mounts that held the large TVs I think something like 100LB to a 125 lb rating. Been thinking they would make the perfect mount system for a tooling box
    Here is what I came up with
    First I cut a shelf out of a formed piece of Auction treasure
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    then mounted everything on the wall of my machine shop van
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    I liked the way it looked so well I decided to position both an fractional and a metric drill index on it as well
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    It sits high enough above the spindle that I might think about mounting an LED tube light fixture under it for those times when I use the lathe with it positioned above it
    Never try to tell me it can't be done
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