Bart Leetch
10-20-2004, 1:13 AM
I am in the process of planning a 7 ½ long cabinet for my 12 CMS. Ill also have my Shopfox Mortiser on the top on a piece of plywood with Formica on the bottom to make is slide easier & a guide bar that will fit in a groove in the top on the front edge will be a part of the fence when the Mortiser is pushed to the back of the table.
Inside the cabinet behind a door on a shallow drawer on heavy duty full extension glides on the left end will be my portable planer. In the right end will be my Jet Spindle sander mounted the same way covered with a door. In the middle will be 2 banks of drawers for mechanical tools.
I figured youall would need a little idea what I was going to put in the cabinet so you could advise me on the below.
I plan on making a torsion box to mount this cabinet on. This is the part I want input on.
I plan on making the torsion box 23 Ύ wide & 88 1/2 long. I was thinking of using ½ plywood for the top & bottom & Ύ plywood for the webbing. Spacing the webbing on the 23 Ύ front to back at approximately 4 on center & for the length space the webbing would be approximately 8 on center. The webbing would be 2 2 ½ tall.
I have some heavy duty casters that Ill mount 12 in from each end.
There will be Ύ plywood blocks glued inside the ½ plywood of the torsion box for the casters to be bolted to.
So what I need to know do you think that the torsion box webbing spacing & skin will do what I want ?
This cabinet will set next to my 12" RAS.
I am making this cabinet to help consolidate these tools & make them more accessible & gain some room in my small shop.
Thanks a lot everyone :)
Inside the cabinet behind a door on a shallow drawer on heavy duty full extension glides on the left end will be my portable planer. In the right end will be my Jet Spindle sander mounted the same way covered with a door. In the middle will be 2 banks of drawers for mechanical tools.
I figured youall would need a little idea what I was going to put in the cabinet so you could advise me on the below.
I plan on making a torsion box to mount this cabinet on. This is the part I want input on.
I plan on making the torsion box 23 Ύ wide & 88 1/2 long. I was thinking of using ½ plywood for the top & bottom & Ύ plywood for the webbing. Spacing the webbing on the 23 Ύ front to back at approximately 4 on center & for the length space the webbing would be approximately 8 on center. The webbing would be 2 2 ½ tall.
I have some heavy duty casters that Ill mount 12 in from each end.
There will be Ύ plywood blocks glued inside the ½ plywood of the torsion box for the casters to be bolted to.
So what I need to know do you think that the torsion box webbing spacing & skin will do what I want ?
This cabinet will set next to my 12" RAS.
I am making this cabinet to help consolidate these tools & make them more accessible & gain some room in my small shop.
Thanks a lot everyone :)