bp122
Expert at Jibber-Jabber
Hey fellas!
I have an engineering problem at hand with my Axi Table saw.
At the moment, it sits (a bit lower than I would like) on a home made stand using 2x3s and a worktop offcut.
It is sturdy and has been levelled with some wedges so that it doesn’t rock on my seriously uneven concrete floor in the garage.
When I built the stand, I didn’t think to add wheels and now I am regretting it. I would kill to have the option of moving the damn thing to rejig the workshop layout, mainly to make room for the router table.
The table saw on its own, according to the online specs, weighs just shy of 80 kgs (it is the smallest one). I am a delicate flower (
), so won’t even think of moving it on my own.
I don’t want to injure my wife especially when she takes care of our 6 month old monster all day!
The options I have thought of are:
Get those jackable (if that is a word) castors which can be screwed to the face of the legs of the stand so that I can jack the whole thing on wheels, move it and resettle (least aggravating solution I can think of but very expensive)
Buy a wheel kit for the table saw (nice to think about but my problem will still remain)
Make a dedicated Table saw workstation and maybe even incorporate the router in the extension (space saver in the long run but haven’t got the time to design it and build it especially when the list of things to fix / do around the house are mounting up, so very limited workshop time)
Attach two castors each to two pieces of 2x3 at either end go for the X configuration where attaching levers to both of them and arrange them in a cross so that the longer lever engages the shorter one and eventually jacks the whole setup whilst the longer lever is locked in position – Matthias Wendel and a few others have done similar things, some bandsaws come with metal versions of the same solution. (it is within my time constraints, I already have the castors and the timber so won’t cost anything extra but I lose the space under the worktop where some smaller bits are stored at the moment, and requires me to make lever locks, catches and also needs space for the large lever to swing- which isn’t ideal)
Sit and engineer a solution using car jacks (screw type or hydraulic) to have the TS temporarily off the stand and fix wheels on to the stand along with some threaded feet. (I only have one hydraulic jack and it is too big to sit inside the stand area to operate, also very risky as I don’t want an 80kg sharp edged tool to cause my head to make empty noises while I attempt this)
What would you do?
Of course, a solution which doesn’t put a dent on an empty wallet will be most desirable
I have an engineering problem at hand with my Axi Table saw.
At the moment, it sits (a bit lower than I would like) on a home made stand using 2x3s and a worktop offcut.
It is sturdy and has been levelled with some wedges so that it doesn’t rock on my seriously uneven concrete floor in the garage.
When I built the stand, I didn’t think to add wheels and now I am regretting it. I would kill to have the option of moving the damn thing to rejig the workshop layout, mainly to make room for the router table.
The table saw on its own, according to the online specs, weighs just shy of 80 kgs (it is the smallest one). I am a delicate flower (
), so won’t even think of moving it on my own.I don’t want to injure my wife especially when she takes care of our 6 month old monster all day!
The options I have thought of are:
Get those jackable (if that is a word) castors which can be screwed to the face of the legs of the stand so that I can jack the whole thing on wheels, move it and resettle (least aggravating solution I can think of but very expensive)
Buy a wheel kit for the table saw (nice to think about but my problem will still remain)
Make a dedicated Table saw workstation and maybe even incorporate the router in the extension (space saver in the long run but haven’t got the time to design it and build it especially when the list of things to fix / do around the house are mounting up, so very limited workshop time)
Attach two castors each to two pieces of 2x3 at either end go for the X configuration where attaching levers to both of them and arrange them in a cross so that the longer lever engages the shorter one and eventually jacks the whole setup whilst the longer lever is locked in position – Matthias Wendel and a few others have done similar things, some bandsaws come with metal versions of the same solution. (it is within my time constraints, I already have the castors and the timber so won’t cost anything extra but I lose the space under the worktop where some smaller bits are stored at the moment, and requires me to make lever locks, catches and also needs space for the large lever to swing- which isn’t ideal)
Sit and engineer a solution using car jacks (screw type or hydraulic) to have the TS temporarily off the stand and fix wheels on to the stand along with some threaded feet. (I only have one hydraulic jack and it is too big to sit inside the stand area to operate, also very risky as I don’t want an 80kg sharp edged tool to cause my head to make empty noises while I attempt this)
What would you do?
Of course, a solution which doesn’t put a dent on an empty wallet will be most desirable
