Mark Koons
02-22-2014, 8:09 PM
Here's the situation:
I have a 4' X 12' X 5" thick stress panel or torsion box made of 1/2" MDF and sealed with epoxy. It was built at least 15 years ago for a large vacuum veneering project. As I approach 70, it is too heavy, too cumbersome, to move alone. Originally I used it on horses and stored it on edge in the parts room. Now I it to serve as the multi-purpose work surface of a glue table with storage for a truckload of stuff underneath… a vacuum pump, bagging materials, clamps, shopvac, tracksaw and 118" guiderail, all ready as possible to use.
I have a table saw with a good fence and powerfeed. The tracksaw will only be used to straighten one edge of various lengths and thicknesses of solid lumber. I'd like to keep the tracksaw and shopvac ready to work and to store the somewhat unwieldily guiderail edgewise, under the glue table's top, against the top stretcher.
There's a lot of brains, imagination and experience here at Sawmill Creek. I'd like not to waste a lot of time reinventing the wheel on this project.
What can you recommend to secure the track so it doesn't get away from me when trying to install boards to be straightened? I'm hoping for a setup that will allow the track to pivot and/or stow out of the way when the table needs to serve some other function. The usual use will be one man straightening several dozen boards at once but the ideal setup should be quick enough to make sense when dealing with a single board.
Thanks to all who reply with your thoughts.
Mark
I have a 4' X 12' X 5" thick stress panel or torsion box made of 1/2" MDF and sealed with epoxy. It was built at least 15 years ago for a large vacuum veneering project. As I approach 70, it is too heavy, too cumbersome, to move alone. Originally I used it on horses and stored it on edge in the parts room. Now I it to serve as the multi-purpose work surface of a glue table with storage for a truckload of stuff underneath… a vacuum pump, bagging materials, clamps, shopvac, tracksaw and 118" guiderail, all ready as possible to use.
I have a table saw with a good fence and powerfeed. The tracksaw will only be used to straighten one edge of various lengths and thicknesses of solid lumber. I'd like to keep the tracksaw and shopvac ready to work and to store the somewhat unwieldily guiderail edgewise, under the glue table's top, against the top stretcher.
There's a lot of brains, imagination and experience here at Sawmill Creek. I'd like not to waste a lot of time reinventing the wheel on this project.
What can you recommend to secure the track so it doesn't get away from me when trying to install boards to be straightened? I'm hoping for a setup that will allow the track to pivot and/or stow out of the way when the table needs to serve some other function. The usual use will be one man straightening several dozen boards at once but the ideal setup should be quick enough to make sense when dealing with a single board.
Thanks to all who reply with your thoughts.
Mark