Last but one thing to grow wheels - something for the pillar drill, scms and new morticer to live in.
The morticer alone weighs in at a shade over 42kg, the scms must be approaching 15 and the pillar drill about 25, add to this 3 drawers full of screws, nuts, bolts, drill bits etc etc and we're in the realms of 100kg so whatever was to be built had to be "beefy"
Decided to make a torsion box base for the bench, straight 18mm mdf uprights, solid rear panels and individual torsion boxes for each piece of kit to sit on.
Cut all the notches on the new cross cut sled, then assembled:
All fitted together very nicely:
Glued, screwed, top installed, wheels on, then it was out with Mk1 torsion box tester, according to him, it passed admirably, no flex whatsoever.
then it was on to the individual bays for the 3 bits of kit, more "torsioning" for the morticer than the scms as its heavier.
All the beds are about 0.5 mm proud of the worksurface. The scms and morticer fence are on the same plane and the pillar from the drill does not interfere with long work pieces.
However.. I don't use the SCMS very often as its not the most accurate of machines, so tyhe sensible thing to do was make it removable, thus giving a bit more work area/dumping area.
I plan to put a lift up extension table at the morticer end but thas for another day.
Only thing left for a set a wheels now is the P/T, perhaps that'll be tomorrow. When thats done it'll be a fully moveable workshop (bar the bench). For those of you wondering why it has to be mobile.... all will be revealed once I've mastered a new toy :wink:
Cheers
Vinny
The morticer alone weighs in at a shade over 42kg, the scms must be approaching 15 and the pillar drill about 25, add to this 3 drawers full of screws, nuts, bolts, drill bits etc etc and we're in the realms of 100kg so whatever was to be built had to be "beefy"
Decided to make a torsion box base for the bench, straight 18mm mdf uprights, solid rear panels and individual torsion boxes for each piece of kit to sit on.
Cut all the notches on the new cross cut sled, then assembled:
All fitted together very nicely:
Glued, screwed, top installed, wheels on, then it was out with Mk1 torsion box tester, according to him, it passed admirably, no flex whatsoever.
then it was on to the individual bays for the 3 bits of kit, more "torsioning" for the morticer than the scms as its heavier.
All the beds are about 0.5 mm proud of the worksurface. The scms and morticer fence are on the same plane and the pillar from the drill does not interfere with long work pieces.
However.. I don't use the SCMS very often as its not the most accurate of machines, so tyhe sensible thing to do was make it removable, thus giving a bit more work area/dumping area.
I plan to put a lift up extension table at the morticer end but thas for another day.
Only thing left for a set a wheels now is the P/T, perhaps that'll be tomorrow. When thats done it'll be a fully moveable workshop (bar the bench). For those of you wondering why it has to be mobile.... all will be revealed once I've mastered a new toy :wink:
Cheers
Vinny
