Jeff Hallam
01-22-2014, 7:06 PM
Since I harvested a lot of good ideas from the forum for outfeed table designs I thought I'd share the outcome of my holiday doings.
I used to have my previous workbench (a solid core door on a 2x4 base) behind the TS but it was taking up too much space and the part not directly behind the TS blade saw little use. I save money by cutting down the door to about a third of the size and then banding the expose particle board with some scrap ash that I had in the bin.
The only mod that I needed to do to the TS was to drill some holes through the back piece of angle iron. The holes don't interfere with its purpose (to hold the side support table). Lag screwed an appropriate sized hunk of pine to the angle iron and routed some grooves for mitre bars to have clearance. The leg brackets fold up and then the table top is hinged to fold down.
I used to have my previous workbench (a solid core door on a 2x4 base) behind the TS but it was taking up too much space and the part not directly behind the TS blade saw little use. I save money by cutting down the door to about a third of the size and then banding the expose particle board with some scrap ash that I had in the bin.
The only mod that I needed to do to the TS was to drill some holes through the back piece of angle iron. The holes don't interfere with its purpose (to hold the side support table). Lag screwed an appropriate sized hunk of pine to the angle iron and routed some grooves for mitre bars to have clearance. The leg brackets fold up and then the table top is hinged to fold down.