Another brain storm, a counter weight caddy!

Well, I decided to make myself a counter weight caddy today. I was looking at one from JMI, but the diameter was 20mm and I needed 7/8" for the Meade LXD650 Weights.
So, I looked at the design and thought, well I can make something similar from materials at the metal salvage.
I bought some 3/16" x 2.5" aluminum, 3' which was more than twice what I needed, but I wanted to have extra in case I screwed up the first one. Then I bought 1 foot of 7/8 aluminum tubing for the shaft. Total cost was $5 for the aluminum.
Next at Lowes I picked up a 6.5" handle and four 1/4 x 20 counter sink screws 1/2" long and 4 bar style t-nuts.
Drilled the holes for everything and cut it to size and then proceeded to bend the two 90° bends in the frame.
It took a while to bend the aluminum, had to heat it first to soften it so it would bend.
Cleaned it up afterward and assembled the caddy.
I used two 7/8 plastic caps for the shaft as keepers. One is slipped on tightly to the end and the other is able to slip off and on easily enough. It keeps the shaft in place and doesn't add to the complexity of the design.
Simple was my plan and it turned out well, it is much easier to carry the 25 lbs+ of weight this way than to carry the weights individually.

Attached Image:

Now you can get pumped up at the mount. Stay off the steroids though. We'll call you the "Telemanator" Say that 10 times. Joe

Hi Floyd, I see you're having fun again. Great idea, that's the great thing about our hobby, you just get a small twinkle of an idea and a very useful product come's out of it. There's just so many thing's that we can do to have fun, rain or shine.

Hey, I built a table similar to your's using a wide piece of the white plastic, kinda put's you in the mind of teflon. It has room for about 9 1.25" EP's and several 2" EP's, I think 5, I only have 4 so I guess I'll have to get another one.

Because of all the dew we get in Kentucky I put on siderail's and a cover for the top. To keep it lite I bought one of the retractable window shade's for an automobile to keep them covered. I've been thinking about fixing a spot for a portable 12 volt defroster to blow across them also, much cheaper than the Kendrick's.

You wont believe what I used for the leg's and frame. I had an old aluminum dinette chair in a shed and took the back off and just made the wood frame to hold the plastic for the EP's. It actually weigh's about 5 or 6 pound's without the EP's.

I wish I could show you but same old story, still no new camera.
Thank's for all the idea's and help you have given me for the more than a year of being here on Amart.
Best Regard's, Darrell

He's done it again! Keep it up, Floyd.