Jason Hanko
12-23-2012, 8:39 PM
Hey all,
Here's another project I finished recently - a mobile base for my Drill Press. Id been meaning to build one forever since I kinda have my DP shoe-horned into a corner where I cant easily reach the knobs and cranks to tighten and raise/lower the DP table. I made it from 4" x 3" beams of barn-beam pine that I had laying around. Its more than stout enough so far to hold the DP as well as the screw organizer bins I recently got from my father in law.
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I wanted to keep the DP as low as possible since it's top heavy to begin with... So rather than build a platform to set the foot of the DP onI built a frame of outriggers that just fit around the foot, and then carriage-bolted the foot to the bottom. The end result is that Ive only added about 3/4" of height, and greatly increased stability since the outriggers place the wheels much wider/deeper than the original footprint of the base.
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The casters are from double-locking 3" from Stanley E Smith (SES Caster). I have their wheels on almost everything in my shop. From using the unit so far I dont think I need the back wheels to be locking at all, so Ill likely replace them with plain old swivels and use the double-locking ones for my forthcoming Bandsaw Mobile Base.
Thanks for looking!
Here's another project I finished recently - a mobile base for my Drill Press. Id been meaning to build one forever since I kinda have my DP shoe-horned into a corner where I cant easily reach the knobs and cranks to tighten and raise/lower the DP table. I made it from 4" x 3" beams of barn-beam pine that I had laying around. Its more than stout enough so far to hold the DP as well as the screw organizer bins I recently got from my father in law.
248771 248775
I wanted to keep the DP as low as possible since it's top heavy to begin with... So rather than build a platform to set the foot of the DP onI built a frame of outriggers that just fit around the foot, and then carriage-bolted the foot to the bottom. The end result is that Ive only added about 3/4" of height, and greatly increased stability since the outriggers place the wheels much wider/deeper than the original footprint of the base.
248773 248774 248772
The casters are from double-locking 3" from Stanley E Smith (SES Caster). I have their wheels on almost everything in my shop. From using the unit so far I dont think I need the back wheels to be locking at all, so Ill likely replace them with plain old swivels and use the double-locking ones for my forthcoming Bandsaw Mobile Base.
Thanks for looking!