Man, I forgot I posted this here, doh! :walterpeck:
My first decal application backfired, and I ended up spending $54 bucks to clean my rear passenger windows off (translation: I messed up the decals and had to peel them off, ripped, bubbly and whatever else, lol) I get all my decals through Fastdecals.com. They do custom work, which is nice. I’ve got chrome snoopy and TONKA decal’s through them, just be careful when you’re installing them! 
Aaanyway, I’m picking up the machine on friday, but here’s some progress pictures for the time being.
Freshly painted headache rack. The bugs seemed to be attracted to the paint. Here’s a trick for welding anything threaded too whatever: wrap the threads in masking tape, weld what you need to weld, and pull the tape off right after. It’ll pull right off like butter when warm, and’ll have protected the threads from any form of spatter. Even better, the properly sized nut’ll thread right on!
Pretty straight forward, this is how the toolbox mounts to the rack. I missed painting a spot on the box, or it got chipped off, whichever. what I painted the box with didn’t stay on as well as what I painted the skid with. The box came powdercoated, but it’s easier to fix rubberized underbody paint than it is powdercoat! I drilled the holes a little out of place, but it was an easy fix. Washers will make up for that, all you need to do is look at which edge the bolt is having problems going through, and gradually ride the drill or die grind or whatever on that edge! I learned that trick from a neighbor when he got me to weld a wear plate onto his snowplow. My day job, I weld in a pressure vessel shop, but It’s cool that I can learn other tricks to make things work from various places!
Originally with the toolbox, I was going to mask over the “greenlee” decal, but couldn’t be bothered…a wire wheel made short work of the sticker!
A blank skid, held in place with four pins I made from 3/8" roundbar, a 3/8" washer and a 1/2" washer, painted bright orange so I don’t lose them!
The forward two having a hole drilled through them and being cotter pinned so they don’t pop out!! (hard to see though)
This is more or less for sh*ts and giggles. A bucket and some “U” bolts from Princess Auto made for a kick@ss welding rod bucket! And like I said on learning random tricks, the largest bit I had on hand at the time was 3/8". The “U” bolts were 7/16" so I reamed out the edges with the 3/8" bit. It didn’t take much!
…It also works for hauling tools, and makes it easy to dump out rod stubs! I got the idea off something I saw on ebay, that had four “U” bolts double nutted so they wouldn’t move. I wanted something that I could pull up a rope to haul my tools to where they need to be, and also something I could use for rods and make for easy stub disposal.
