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Building my kid a lowered radio flyer wagon


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I tinkered around on the TMNT wagon a little bit this weekend. Got the wheels and the stuff needed to make them work on the stock 3/8 axles. Tomorrow I might mask them off and paint em blue and mount the shell up.

 

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I got the wheels apart and painted tonight, personally I would've powder coated them but given the budget I had to work with, paint had to do. I am pretty happy with how they turned out regardless. All I have left to do is mount the shell, sew up the seat and put on the stickers and this one is done!

 

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Alot of people ask me how to get the Harbor Freight wheels to work with the stock 3/8 radio flyer axle. The answer to that....copper pipe. This stuff works perfectly to bridge the gap and not allow the wheel to wobble around while pulling it.

 

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As far as working on the wagon, I was able to get the fabric picked out and the seat cut. Just gotta sew the fabric up next, I am trying to keep these as individualistic as possible, while staying within the allotted budget. Luckily our local fabric store just got in 3 different patters, so the seat will be different than the last TMNT wagon I built.

 

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Wrapped up the Leonardo wagon today!! You can't really tell in these pics, but the font for the stickers are the actual TMNT font.

 

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I also have a teaser pic of the Radio Rancher I am building for my niece

 

http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/yy218/guy_from_nerk/10403388_10152824208671907_4788529464357318034_n_zpsc69b9d12.jpg

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The radio rancher wagon is almost complete, I am just waiting on the tub and wheels to get back from the powder coater. My brother in law wanted to have the tub and wheels camouflaged, not wanting it to look cheap, I suggested we have that stuff hydro dipped. I went with the muddy girl pattern as it has a bright purple through out it that will match the upper part of this wagon. I don't have a pic of the tub finished yet, but I was able to watch it get dipped and that is a cool process. The tub was coated pink first as thats the undercoat color that the film calls for. Here is a pic of the wagon in that stage as well as the wheels coated. Mind you the wheels do get a hub cap on the center of them that is a mirror black finish. The wagon should look really cool once it's all back together.

 

http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/yy218/guy_from_nerk/10603605_368768033280857_2232195424593295955_n_zps2f50f3cc.jpg

 

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Thanks, I am happy with it. The next one I have set to build I believe it going to be a Lightning McQueen (cars) themed one. We will see though as we're in the early stages of discussing what the person getting it wants it to be. I had a Captain America themed one lined up as well, but that one fell through on me.
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Man, you have some serious talent on these dude.

 

I know you keep mentioning you don't make much (if any) money on these, but I can tell you really enjoy it. Most people don't make a lot on their hobbies, but this one is definitely making people happy. I'd love to see you keep doing as I'm really enjoying this thread!

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The making money really isn't a huge concern to me, it's really when people complain about the cost of building these that it gets to me. I have ideas for days as far as these wagons are concerned, the limiting factor is just money. I do enjoy doing these as it's a fun hobby, allows me to be creative, gives these old wagons a second life and hopefully makes a kid happy. Now, I wouldn't mind making more than $5 doing them, but it is what it is right now.

 

The rancher has close to $350 in it, but my brother in law understood how much everything cost and was down to spend the money. I have 3 more wagon builds lined up which makes me excited, one of them is actually a military themed one that is going to NY. A guy on one of the Honda forums I cruise saw the wagons and had to have one for his fiance who is in basic training right now. The other 2 I am getting ready to start posting pictures of are a basic one and then a hotwheels themed one.

 

My wife got a new camera and has been dying to play around with it, so we loaded the rancher up and went to snap some better photos than that of it in my garage with a cell phone. Here ya go

 

http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/yy218/guy_from_nerk/1461102_10152853477616907_8563158222362753374_n_zps3ee57b23.jpg

 

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On the next build or builds I should say!

 

My sister in laws Mother asked me to build a wagon for her 2 year old Grandson. She said he was really into Hotwheels and wondered if I could build him one that is Hotwheels themed. She doesn't want to go too extreme by changing the wheels or lowering it to make it look like a racecar, just wants it to be a nice wagon.

 

I got the wagon torn down and out for powder coating, which btw I am thinking about buying the stuff to start doing this at home to cut down the price as it's the most expensive part of this process.

 

http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/yy218/guy_from_nerk/Wagon%20Builds/LightningMcQueen_zpse2220190.jpg

 

My brother in law had an old motorcycle exhaust setup laying around the garage and offered it to me for free. I cut it down to make side exit exhaust out of, it's a hotwheels wagon, it has to have sidepipes right? I am going to pie cut and attempt to clean up the chrome, it's pretty rough though, so it might end up getting powder coated as well.

 

http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/yy218/guy_from_nerk/Wagon%20Builds/1450205_10152854738221907_3896910731967454945_n_zps459f42a0.jpg

 

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The other wagon I am doing right now is for my sister in laws 2 little girls, I am calling this wagon Double Trouble. I picked this particular wagon up off my 80 year old neighbor lady for a bargain of $20. She wasn't quite sure how old it was, but researching the logo and style of tub leads me to believe late 50's, early 60's. This thing is a tank, easily the heaviest wagon I have had, including the radio rancher. Since it's a 50's/60's model, I talked her into going with a 50's style teal and white theme, you know like the old 57 chevys and such had. The tub is going the teal color as are the wheels which will be the bigger, off road style. The suspension and stickers will be white to help break up the color.

 

Having a large family has come in handy when it comes to building these things. I built one and suddenly everyone started producing kids and wanting their own wagon haha.

 

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The powder coater called me today and told me that both wagons would be done today. Since I live 2 minutes away, I ran down and grabbed the one that was ready to be picked up and will hopefully get the hothweels wagon back today. With that said here is the wagon I have dubbed, "Double Trouble"

 

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Haha I hope so!

 

I got a call this afternoon that the Hotwheels wagon was done being coated. I am going to bring it home tomorrow as I didn't have room in my CRV to bring it home today. I was able to snap a couple pictures of it though. The suspension is all silver (didn't snap a pic of that) and the handle is blue. The customer wants the bigger style wheels, I was going to do them the same blue, but now I am thinking they are going to be powdered in a chrome color.

 

There is metal flake in this powder

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