http://www.lawrence.org.uk/blog/2009/12/table-saw-station/ Whatever I feel like writing about Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:19:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.lawrence.org.uk/blog/2009/12/table-saw-station/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Jon Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:06:14 +0000 http://www.lawrence.org.uk/blog/?p=8#comment-8 My current way of moving the saw cabinet around isn't really practical - it's just a bit of 2x3 with 2 castors on it. This is hinged to the side of the cab and you have to lift the end to get the wheels down. I do like the fact that the cab sits flat on the floor for operation - the whole thing must weigh 100Kgs so it ain't moving anywhere when down. But getting it up and down is a right royal pita. I'm thinking on a better way of lowering the wheels for the new cab. I don't want to use locking wheels as that would mean that only 4 small surface areas would be in contact with the floor - which to me doesn't seem a good safe idea when using something that spins very fast and can easily sever body parts. Imagine if the cab moved a tad whilst in use :(. What I'm thinking of is using a kind of vertical clamp. It needs to be quite heavy duty but would only need to raise the cab about half an inch to allow it to move around. I'll have to give this a lot more thought, but in the meanwhile I'll probably order some clamps to experiment with. My current way of moving the saw cabinet around isn’t really practical – it’s just a bit of 2×3 with 2 castors on it. This is hinged to the side of the cab and you have to lift the end to get the wheels down.
I do like the fact that the cab sits flat on the floor for operation – the whole thing must weigh 100Kgs so it ain’t moving anywhere when down. But getting it up and down is a right royal pita.
I’m thinking on a better way of lowering the wheels for the new cab. I don’t want to use locking wheels as that would mean that only 4 small surface areas would be in contact with the floor – which to me doesn’t seem a good safe idea when using something that spins very fast and can easily sever body parts. Imagine if the cab moved a tad whilst in use .
What I’m thinking of is using a kind of vertical clamp. It needs to be quite heavy duty but would only need to raise the cab about half an inch to allow it to move around. I’ll have to give this a lot more thought, but in the meanwhile I’ll probably order some clamps to experiment with.

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