Recent content by Flyball

Thanks - more ideas to mull over. Though about levelling too and toyed with ideas about screw threads, wooden "pistons" etc., but couldn't come up with anything that would take a beating/load and be stable but without being an impractical thickness and/or compromising main leg strength. Apart...

Thanks for that - serendipity strikes again. I like his idea for the flip-down feet - I was stuck in the "flip-down casters" rut but wasn't very happy with it.

Thanks - that's really useful. I might get away with it then if I put a groove in the "underside" of the "cover". Not ideal, but I can probably live with that.

W.r.t the riving knife - do you know if it goes up and down at all? What happens with the blade set low - does the knife have to be adjusted to compensate for the gap increase? Good point about the beating - separate would be better but I need some length for general use and don't have space...

Cheers. The diagrams were only to show rough positioning - I was going to make the whole bench as one unit on heavy duty castors so I can pull it out front of my garage and open it up for "proper" work. The folded-out "cover" then becomes either a side extension or outfeed depending on the...

I want to get a table saw to mount in a bench I'm building with the table-saw top flush with the bench top and mounted at one end of the bench. The blade can be parallel or perpendicular to the front (long) edge of the bench (attachment below for a VERY rough illustration). For space reasons, I...