This is what you call really rough construction. The quick & dirty. I seriously took anything I had laying around to make this.
I wanted to make a stand for the grinder and I had some cheap plywood laying around. Because the Dodge was in the garage and it wasn't running, I was really limited on space to work with. I used my circular saw to cut the main pieces of the box and glued and nailed it together. It isn't square and I couldn't seem to cut straight today, so there are some large gaps.
To weigh it down, I had a 50 lb bag of play sand laying around, I don't know why or where it came from but I put it in the base of the stand. It worked OK until I punctured the bag and sand started to spill out through the cracks.
I went back today and attached the piece on the front of the base to hold the sand in. I happened to have a tube of silicon caulk from when I put in a toilet, and rather than let it go bad, I used it to fill the gaps in the bottom where the sand was so it would stop leaking out the back.
I decided at that point to dump the sand out of the bag and level it off as best I could. laid another piece of plywood on top of the sand and nailed and caulked it in too. Now I have a shelf to store some stuff in.
Just so the safety nuts don't get on me, I don't plan on keeping that stuff on the shelf. I think I would qualify for the Darwin awards if I were to use the grinder with a can of mineral spirits right below it. The spirits were really just to clean up the silicone off my hands.
