Mobile MFT type workshop

[Justin Leiwig]

Ok....so this is my plan so far to build my workshop on wheels since I have no garage to work in. My workshop will need to roll out of the shed and set up quickly, but be mobile enough to go wherever I need it to.

I'm borrowing ideas from the following sources.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a91/leiwig/Forum%20Stuff/GWorkbench450x258.jpg

Bobsplans.com free workbench plan

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a91/leiwig/Forum%20Stuff/shopnotes-roll-around-cart.jpg

ShopNotes roll around tool cart

and...
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a91/leiwig/Forum%20Stuff/Folding_Workbench.jpg

The Family Handyman Folding Workbench
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a91/leiwig/Forum%20Stuff/pic37.jpg

The Family Handyman Do-it-all mobile workbench


Combining various features from all of these I plan to create a cart with two folding wings that will open up to equal the size of a 4x8 sheet of plywood. There will be a spot for a table mounted router, as well as off of the opposite end a tablesaw will be able to be mounted so that it is flush with the table top making a 4x8 outfeed table.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a91/leiwig/Forum%20Stuff/MFTtop.jpg

This is a drawing for the top of the cart. As you can see I have a mitre slot, t-track to mount a router fence, and a router insert. I think I will will continue the mitre track along both sheets of the wings so that I can make mounts to support long stock when I set my CMS on the table as well.

Any other ideas or suggestions for me?

[Jamie Buxton]

Brakes on the wheels.

Some scheme for leveling. Well, not leveling, but anti-rocking. You're going to build a nice square rigid thing, and roll it on a floor which I'm betting is not as flat. It will rock if you don't do something about it. There are threads on SMC about casters with integral height adjustment (Zambus?). You don't need four of them, just one.

I like to be able to clamp on to the edges of my workbench. If you have big foldout wings along the long edges, you won't be able to clamp there. Furthermore, the wings are going to get in the way of access to all the stuff stored below. Instead, you might consider a couple of (folding) sawhorses the same height as the cart.