mobile base for table saw/router table

[Andy Maldoror]

i'm planning on building something like brian anderson's router cabinet, which is the third picture in this thread: http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=146997 but it's probably going to be the length of the one in the first 2 photos.
i have an old unisaw with the 52" bies fence..a 7518 and router lift and i'm getting the 17" incra super system that will attach to the table top like keith's in the above thread.

is there a mobile base available that would work with this kind of setup? i was thinking delta until i realized the lifting castor wouldn't be accessible. i'd like to butt the cabinet as close as i can with the hand crank on the TS.
is this the project where i finally learn how to weld...or maybe a wooden base is simplest. i was hoping for something lower profile though to show off my TS restoration.
any ideas for this?

thanks a lot,
andy

[Andy Maldoror]

any ideas?

[Andy Maldoror]

thinking of going the shopbuilt route.
i'm looking at the base this guy built: http://www.mobileworkshop.ca/images/IMG_9512d.jpg
http://www.mobileworkshop.ca/images/IMG_9496a.jpg
is this base likely all wood? or would it have to incorporate angle to sustain the load under the saw? has anyone here done a base like this?
what do you guys think of the locking casters with the linear clamps as stabilizers?

[Mark Leu]

I think custom building your own is your best option. I just got done building one out of steel 1X2 rectangular tubing. If you are going to build it out of wood, I'd use a torsion box design. You don't want it flexing and throwing your extension table out of alignment.

[Scott Schwake]

Here's one I built using an old LVL beam and some hardware:

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showpost.php?p=1487366&postcount=11

It's only long enough to support a 30" fence but you could easily make it longer. I have a Sketchup model if you want it, but it's pretty simple.

Scott

[Andy Maldoror]

scott, what's the saw resting on?

[Andy Maldoror]

also is there any way to incorporate larger castors in that hinged design. i'll be rolling it around on a diamond plate floor and i've had trouble with those type casters.

[Scott Schwake]

Andy, saw is sitting on steel angles bolted through the LVL and set in a shallow dado, I stole that idea from Cary Falk.

With larger casters, you would just need to make sure they didn't bind against the base as they rotate, and they would stick out further when in the retracted position, but I'm sure it could be done. It took a bit of trial & error to get the casters and the hinged piece positioned right, but it works really slick.

Scott