Hi,
In my shop, I use a 3x4 cart on swivel casters for many steps of my projects. I stage lumber and parts on the cart, use the cart to move those items from station to station, I do handheld work (e.g. routing, sanding, jig sawing) there etc.
I recently upgraded my shop dust collection, so all my stations are pretty darn efficient now, but the last portion of my setup statement above is a mess.
AND, I need a cart in my finishing room, so my thought is that my old faithful cart retires to the good life in the finishing room. Nice and clean and bright in there. It will be so happy after years of abuse. And, I build a new, better cart...
My neighbor recently gave me very nice plywood panels that his company was throwing away. Picture really nice, perfectly 3/4", dead flat and very stable, peg board panels at 2x2 each.
I would build the cart so that the top connects can connect to a nearby 6" DC port and act as a down draft table. Inside the cart, I would also install my spare shop vac with bag filter. So I could connect to back end of tool AND work on a downdraft table at the same time.
As this project is basically free (I have everything on hand already from other projects etc.) it's in the "I have nothing to lose" category... But I'd be curious to know if you all think it's a sensible approach, or any suggestions etc.
Thanks!
Bob R.