Scott Winners
09-09-2021, 2:06 AM
I am striking out swinging with the search button. I am currently in a (very) space constrained garage, need to make seasonal room for my wife's vehicle, and limited to 110vac.
New to me recently I need to make mobile bases for a DeWalt 734 planer, a Shop Fox W1745 jointer and a Delta 1hp (110vac) dust collector.
The DC has the motor mounted under the impeller. I feel pretty good about fabbing up a drum and a cyclone to ride around with the DC out of homestore lumber. Foot print will be 2x6 feet nominal but a bit of vibration is not a problem.
I have a formed sheet metal table for the planer to sit on. As individual components I can set the thickness planer up in the driveway with minimal fuss.
I am very concerned about making the jointer mobile. Even I who puts the hyphen in A-R grabs the machine by the end of the table. This is not ideal. When I buy Guiness at the liquor store 8 cases at a time to minimize trips to the liquor store and maximise social distancing blah blah the beer manager brings out a thing he calls a "Uboat" with a platform maybe 10" off the floor and tall hoops at each end. My thinking is if I could have a custom "U boat" fabricated at 48" length to hold my jointer end to end, with end hoops tall enough to swallow any rough stock I am likely to purchase I should be golden.
I do have a metal fabricator on retainer so to speak. My thinking is if the long square tubing of the base goes kinda -\_____/- I should be able to mount casters under the hyphens and mount the jointer on top of the underlines. I have a good one inch trough between the poured concrete garage floor and my asphalt driveway. The factory wheels under the ShopFox w1745 with mobile base can't realistically span the gap now and couldn't when new.
I can do it, but I would rather step up to bigger wheels than fool with it every time I move it. And moving the jointer by the ends of the feed tables is clearly no beuno. I am budgeting three shop days to getting the in and out feed tables adjusted as I replace the factory knives, but I don't want to deal with it frequently. With the end hoops of a "U boat" style cart in use I should be able to feed the jointer any rough sawn board I am likely to buy, and not have to worry about guests with suboptimal beverages leaning aginst my jointer tables to tell tales I will likely not believe.
Some various "Uboat carts" behind this link, no affiliation: https://www.uline.com/BL_1834/U-Boat-Platform-Trucks?pricode=WT911&AdKeyword=u%20boat%20cart&AdMatchtype=e&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIvqKz7pnx8gIVkTizAB0B3ws0EAAYASAA EgKwYPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
All of the mobile bases I have found you guys raving about offer my jointer tables zero protection against fat leaning guys drinking fizzy yellow water and telling lies.
Thoughts?
Thanks.
New to me recently I need to make mobile bases for a DeWalt 734 planer, a Shop Fox W1745 jointer and a Delta 1hp (110vac) dust collector.
The DC has the motor mounted under the impeller. I feel pretty good about fabbing up a drum and a cyclone to ride around with the DC out of homestore lumber. Foot print will be 2x6 feet nominal but a bit of vibration is not a problem.
I have a formed sheet metal table for the planer to sit on. As individual components I can set the thickness planer up in the driveway with minimal fuss.
I am very concerned about making the jointer mobile. Even I who puts the hyphen in A-R grabs the machine by the end of the table. This is not ideal. When I buy Guiness at the liquor store 8 cases at a time to minimize trips to the liquor store and maximise social distancing blah blah the beer manager brings out a thing he calls a "Uboat" with a platform maybe 10" off the floor and tall hoops at each end. My thinking is if I could have a custom "U boat" fabricated at 48" length to hold my jointer end to end, with end hoops tall enough to swallow any rough stock I am likely to purchase I should be golden.
I do have a metal fabricator on retainer so to speak. My thinking is if the long square tubing of the base goes kinda -\_____/- I should be able to mount casters under the hyphens and mount the jointer on top of the underlines. I have a good one inch trough between the poured concrete garage floor and my asphalt driveway. The factory wheels under the ShopFox w1745 with mobile base can't realistically span the gap now and couldn't when new.
I can do it, but I would rather step up to bigger wheels than fool with it every time I move it. And moving the jointer by the ends of the feed tables is clearly no beuno. I am budgeting three shop days to getting the in and out feed tables adjusted as I replace the factory knives, but I don't want to deal with it frequently. With the end hoops of a "U boat" style cart in use I should be able to feed the jointer any rough sawn board I am likely to buy, and not have to worry about guests with suboptimal beverages leaning aginst my jointer tables to tell tales I will likely not believe.
Some various "Uboat carts" behind this link, no affiliation: https://www.uline.com/BL_1834/U-Boat-Platform-Trucks?pricode=WT911&AdKeyword=u%20boat%20cart&AdMatchtype=e&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIvqKz7pnx8gIVkTizAB0B3ws0EAAYASAA EgKwYPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
All of the mobile bases I have found you guys raving about offer my jointer tables zero protection against fat leaning guys drinking fizzy yellow water and telling lies.
Thoughts?
Thanks.