An item that has served its purpose sadly wanders to be melted down, recycled or to a landfill. But sometimes on this bleak path, full of hopelessness and disappointment, you meet masters who are ready to breathe new life into it. Our review shows how to create original interior items from old auto parts.
Angel of internal combustion
Thank you for being in the world
Fuel supply system with separate control for each injector,
Direct injection of nitrooxide into the cylinder,
Two-stage turbo and titanium valve springs!
May high-quality fuel be poured into the tanks, good roads be laid out and taxes reduced.
Good evening, citizens of auto-believers.
From auto junk piston, connecting rod, spark plugs, camshaft pulley
with the help of his hands and tools he assembled an internal combustion angel.
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DIY piston watch
Good evening, lovers of three-ply chamomile-scented toilet paper.
A redheaded asshole friend of mine ordered me to make a toilet paper holder.
And it was created. In the image and likeness...
The most expensive part of the composition is the hair made of copper wire. Due to budget restrictions, the number of fingers had to be reduced to a minimum.
The rest is cut, cooked, polished and ready.
Commando 2: Bravery Reward
The week turned out to be rich in piston-headed fighters.
During this time, three evil pistons were released and a Commando was now ordered.
Fortunately, all the elements for assembly were available.
All that remains is to clean them and connect them together.
I attach balls to it and weld candles. I hang the chain and it's done.
Added some sparkle and made a short film
Watch
But this is a really cool thing that will always be appropriate both on and above a table with computer equipment. Everything ingenious is simple - and this watch is excellent proof of that. Nothing superfluous: 12 function keys with corresponding numbering, a CD and a mechanism for a penny alarm clock.
And most importantly, the author of this craft spent only about 5 minutes making it! A great thing is to attach a finished clock mechanism to a disc and cover it with plastic buttons. Meanwhile, the craft looks quite decent.
Sofa from a car, table from an engine: how to make money on furniture from auto parts
Mikhail Karavaev and Oleg Kalaev are nuclear physicists by training. They did not find themselves in the profession they received at the university, but they achieved success in a completely different field - in the production of unusual interior items from auto parts. They spotted the idea in the British car show Top Gear - and in a few years they went from handicraft production to a full-fledged workshop with millions in revenue. Co-owner of the Rolling Stol workshop Mikhail Karavaev told the Biz360.ru portal about how to make money on furniture from spare parts.
Dossier
Mikhail Karavaev
, an entrepreneur from Moscow, co-founder of the workshop, which he develops in partnership with
Oleg Kalaev
. Mikhail and Oleg are 30 years old, both majoring in nuclear physics (graduated from Moscow State University). The Rolling Stol workshop was launched in 2016.
How it all began
After graduating from university, I worked for about two years at a large telecommunications company as a manager-engineer. And then I came to the idea that I no longer wanted to be a cog in a machine and work for someone - I wanted to create something of my own.
At that time, I was already doing creative work in my garage in the Moscow region: I made tables and various other interior items from car parts. This idea was not my know-how; I saw the first table made from a motor in the British car TV show Top Gear. But the idea seemed very stylish, brutal and promising to me.
From the very beginning, I knew how to present such things and who would buy it; I had a clear understanding that no one was doing anything similar in our country yet, although there was demand. But at the start I didn’t sell anything, I just gave gifts to friends.
Then I teamed up with my friend and partner Oleg Kalaev - and we rented a garage in Moscow for 5 thousand rubles a month. We launched a simple website for 30 thousand rubles. I understood that I needed to put some kind of portfolio there. Therefore, at first we did several things not to order, but just like that - specifically to fill the site. After all, it’s boring to look only at tables; you need an assortment.
That's why we got a watch made from a clutch basket, some mini-sculptures, lamps, and business card holders made from car pistons. It then became clear that there was a shortage of larger, higher-priced items, and we started designing sofas. The first one was from the body shell of a real 407 Moskvich. Next came models from Mustang and Volga.
I designed the first models myself, my partner Oleg was mainly responsible for other tasks in the project. With each new product it turned out better and better. Three months after the site started operating, the first orders appeared.
Spare parts are in short supply
Our first garage could not boast of either a large area or amenities. At 22.00 the lights went out there, and in winter there was no heating, but somehow they worked.
To start, we only needed hand tools: screwdrivers, jigsaws, grinders. Later, a year later, we began to purchase larger equipment - for example, a welding machine, a compressor, spray guns. They invested money earned from their own orders into the purchase of all this. We didn’t take out loans, so we developed gradually.
Some of the spare parts for the base of our products were literally at hand and were obtained for free. I specifically bought only engine cylinder blocks from car repair shops and car dismantling yards.
However, at the moment, used spare parts are rarely used in our workshop. When we make, say, a sofa in the shape of a Volga body, now there are only headlights from a real car. We make the rest of the parts ourselves: for example, we make the body itself from plastic.
The sales volume of products containing real spare parts is already very small and amounts to about 15%. Now we get the most revenue from things that we make ourselves using molding: sofas, armchairs, bar counters.
First mistakes
We started, as is usually the case, by working with private clients. As our portfolio grew, companies began to reach out. The very first of these was a children's cafe in Astrakhan. The owner found us by directly searching for “sofa from a car.” At the moment when this company contacted us, we had to register an individual entrepreneur. The order was to make 14 automotive style sofas and two decorative gas pumps.
This was our first major project, it cost more than 1 million rubles. And of course, we scored our first big shots on it. Since we had no experience, the entire order was delivered to Astrakhan with damage: at that time we did not know how to properly package our products and organize delivery. But we are talking about a large, fragile load that can be scratched with an ordinary nail and broken with a moderate impact. It was painful and offensive. But I had to go to Astrakhan and personally repair all the damage.
After this project, we understood which parts should be transported in disassembled form and which should not, which need to be additionally sealed, in which case hard sheathing is needed and what protection is required for soft panels.
They also began to pay much more attention to the wear resistance of things, usability, and the ability to replace modules: the client, if necessary, should be able to change this or that part himself in his city. All in all, it was a very valuable first experience.
Then large orders became regular, and among them there were especially interesting ones. For example, we once made a bar counter from a 1972 Volkswagen Transporter bus - that same legendary hippie bus ( see video
). The bus itself has already become a collectible model and can cost 5 million rubles. We can make a bar counter in the form of such a bus. That is, it does not have a roof, and inside, in the driver’s seat, a person prepares drinks. The length of the stand can reach 6 meters. The Lipetsk coffee chain Coffee Way bought this from us.
Garage as a chill-out zone
Now approximately 60% of our revenue comes from the B2B segment, and in terms of the number of orders it is approximately 50%. We decorate cafes and restaurants, client areas of detailing centers, and company offices. We do such projects on a turnkey basis.
We have quite a lot of clients in the regions: cool cafes and detailing centers are opening there. Our products were sent to Krasnodar, the Far East, Khabarovsk, Tyumen, etc. But there are more retail clients mainly in the capital.
The owners of such enterprises are usually men who are impressed by our work style. Many of them decorate their home the same way. Men are also more often present among retail customers. But women also contact us who want to give a gift to a connoisseur of our style.
It is common for wealthy men to have hobbies, and often this is something related to the automobile. In particular, they sometimes create a place to relax in the garage with the help of our interior items. This is no longer a place where you can tinker with your car, but a location where our client combines all his interests, can sit with friends and relax.
Marketing and promotion
In terms of promotion, we try to pay maximum attention to Instagram. We have had an account since the start, now it is there. To recruit them, we held competitions and made barter interactions with bloggers (they, however, in our case were not particularly effective).
We practice targeting, we spend about 4 thousand rubles on it per day - but not every day. We monitor how people react to posts, and if suddenly a post gets more coverage, Instagram reports this and we start promoting it to the right audience.
Lately I’ve been trying to do the same and I can already see that this area has prospects.
We promote the site only through SEO. But due to the fact that our specificity does not have many requests on the Internet, there is always organic traffic on the site.
I have not yet seen enterprises in Russia that would work in exactly the same style and with the same productivity. Apparently, there are no other desperate people who would dare to plunge into this from scratch and go through such a difficult path as we did. I know that there are guys who do cool things in related topics, but still in their own style and in small volumes. And there are dishonest competitors who copy our photos and introduce ourselves to clients with our name, after which they make low-quality copies of our things. True, they do not create any special problems for us.
On your own
We moved several times. Now our project is already a full-fledged small production - just not an assembly line, but a small-scale one. For him, we rented the premises of a former furniture factory - 700 square meters. We moved there in 2018.
We got the site covered in dust, garbage and without electricity. We didn’t do any drastic renovations there, but it still required a lot of work on arrangement. Although we tried to make everything as simple and ergonomic as possible.
The construction was going on for about three months by the team: part of the time was spent on it, part on working on orders, because it was impossible to tell clients that we were undergoing renovations here, so we weren’t working yet. Nevertheless, the revenue dropped for that period, because they physically could not do business to the same extent in parallel with putting the premises into operation.
But today we work in a comfortable space, where there is central heating, a lot of our own equipment, and the workshops are separated by partitions and equipped with hoods.
At the production site there is a metalworking and welding shop, where sparks fly and metal bends. There is an area where we work with wood - a carpentry shop, and also a workshop for preparing products for painting, a painting booth, and a workshop for working with plastic.
There is a separate area for final assembly of products. Recently, a so-called powder chamber has appeared - an area where we use special technologies to paint products with powder. There is also a photo zone where we take pictures of finished items before shipping them to customers. Our office is located on the second floor.
Price issue
We hired our first employees after a year of work. These were specialists who worked on a project basis. Today we employ eleven craftsmen: two welders, a welding engineer, a sculptor, two assemblers, a plastic master, a painter, a seamstress, and there is also a manager and a supplier.
Oleg and I, as leaders of the company, are generally interchangeable. But I am more focused on production and working with clients, and Oleg is more focused on new developments and promotion.
Our products usually cost from 2.5 thousand to 150 thousand rubles. About once every two months there is an order whose cost reaches 500 thousand - for example, a bar counter. And we also have a segment of exclusive products. Among them, say, a table made from a real Ferrari engine, it can cost up to 600 thousand rubles. We also sometimes create complex art objects (for example, decorating an entire floor in a certain style), whose cost can reach up to 800 thousand.
At the moment we have 20-30 orders in progress every month. Each of them can contain several products at once. The monthly turnover of the enterprise is 2-3 million rubles. At the same time, when the turnover is lower, this does not mean that our profit is falling. Our business model takes into account the difference in product margins - because of it, the revenue can be small, but the profit will remain high.
For example, our tables are not particularly profitable. Sofas and armchairs have 20-30% higher margins than them. Therefore, we cannot give our distributors a large discount on the table from the engine, so as not to fall out of our margin level. But the dealer receives a 40% discount on the Volga sofa.
Growth points
Today Rolling Stol cooperates with three dealers on an ongoing basis, one of which is located in Israel. Interaction with them proves to be beneficial. To become such a partner, a person can purchase our products in the amount of 300 thousand rubles or simply post a photo of it on his Internet portal (in this case, we ship products as orders are received). In any case, our distributor must have some kind of sales platform: on the Internet, in a store or in a car dealership.
We primarily see our scaling in expanding our dealer network around the world. There are certain difficulties here: the distributor must be trained, he must have a good understanding of the product, he must be offered individual conditions and some special assortment... Nevertheless, we understand that the more earning dealers we have, the more we will earn.
In addition to working in this direction, this year we also plan to optimize our production through new equipment for the accelerated production of body parts for sofa bodies, as well as for laser cutting. This will allow us to replace some of the manual labor in the workshop with automated labor - and will increase the quality of our goods and production volume.
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King of pistons
Hello my little piston lovers.
Another craft from the “Piston Cuttings” series
The piston from a tractor is used as a basis.
Sandblasted and polished with different sandpapers.
Marked the drawing and drilled it out. Knocked out his eyes. The rest was milled out with a Dremel.
The crown is made of brass gold bearing cage.
I made a beard from a timing chain. The cartridges were brought from the shooting range.
I sharpened one for a tooth, the other for a cigarette.
The result was a small craft weighing 6 kg and 27 cm high.
Compressor King
If you are tired of skulls made of pistons, then this post is for you.
I came across a piston from a compressor that was distinctively large, 20cm in diameter.
Since I couldn’t find a cylinder for it, I had to sharpen the shard again.
Using a rotator, I polished it with different sandpapers from 150 to 2000, then with aluminum paste.
The crown is from the bearing cage as usual.
Well, a couple of videos with nice music.
Humpty Dumpty
Good afternoon, self-modellers and those who peep.
Another craft made from a piston.
Made to order. He will stand on the front panel, instead of a dog... and shake his head)
Made from YaMZ piston, bearing cage and Ural gear.
The piston is polished, drilled, and engraved.
Table
Just a table is boring. Shafts, heads, and gears migrated from automobile to mobile to become elegant and monumental, brutal and graceful tables.
If your own car is in excellent condition, then you really want to get creative, you should go to one of the 10 largest vehicle cemeteries in the world. You can definitely profit from old spare parts there.
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ShPChZ Connecting rod and piston watch factory. First load of time.
For those who don’t have enough time, I’ll say that I have plenty of it.
I bought a semi-automatic, an angle grinder, and then everything was in a fog))
We cut, saw, cook, and most importantly bend and twist the connecting rods with the help of a magic lighter.
The last two hours are just from the post of the previous table V6.
Do you really need to post photos of the process or just the result?
