Roller Stands

[marcros]

I am after a couple of roller stands, for use with my RAS, Bandsaw and planer. I was planning on getting some that i can use the milti directional roller balls on, because I think that these would be more useful for everything except narrow stock. They need to be capable of holiding some beefy timber- the bandsaw will cut to 12", so I may as well not linit its capacity by the stands.

I was looking at http://www.axminster.co.uk/medium-duty- ... prod22686/

any comments? any better alternatives for similar money? Does anybody have these?

 

[themackay]

I bought one of these about 5 years ago from rutlands looks identical to Axminster one use with my mitre saw sawing 4 x2 6 x 2 etc works fine.

 

[Graham Orm]

Mine have plain rollers on, obviously this is better for narrow stock BUT! unless they are perfectly at 90 degrees to the machine when you roll the stock across them they tend to turn it and take it at the angle that they are at, which consequently pulls it out of line with your machine. I would have bought the roller ball type had I known this.

 

[marcros]

that is what i had read. also, on the RAS, they are only for additional support rather than movement, so i thought that the balls would be better therebecause i would be loading them from the front, not feeding over the roller.

 

[themackay]

I should have said roller has to be lined up parallel to saw I have never used mine in roller ball mode.

 

[johnf]

I have one of these http://www.axminster.co.uk/heavy-duty-r ... tomsection
a bit more money than the medium version but rock solid in use

I also have a couple of record ones to sell if you are interested

 

[marcros]

i did look at those as well John. May yet go for them.

Thanks for the offer of the record ones, but by the time that I have got them, it would be as cheap to buy some new and get free shipping. They are just straight roller ones too arent they?

 

[awkwood]

If your going to be using them for beefy timbers. these are the ones.
http://www.woodmachine.co.uk/

 

[Eric The Viking]

If your going to be using them for beefy timbers. these are the ones.
http://www.woodmachine.co.uk/

Cor, nice.

Don't do the Rutlands el-cheapo 4-off deal. It's a waste of money. The ones I have do get used, but they're a fiddle to set up properly, because of the canted leg, and the metal is so thin that tightening the locking screw usually bends the inner tube. The rollers and 'feet' aren't square to the tubes either. In fact, I'm not convinced any welded joints are actually square (or the holes are drilled in the wrong places so it doesn't fit squarely together). The rollers are OK, so may find uses elsewhere.

There's a nice Triton one, which I think I should have bought instead!

E.

 

[marcros]

it very much appears to be you get what you pay for. the wood machine ones look excellent, but at £200 each + VAT, they are way beyond my budget, and in fairness way beyond my requirements.

There seem to be 2 designs out there, 1 has a single leg with 3 or 4 feet on it. The other has a pair of legs, not dissimilar to a saw horse. The latter sound more stable to me, but the alternative is to stand them on a piece on mdf that has itself been levelled. the saw horse type seem to fold fat too if required.

I will probably go for a couple of the axi ones, and may stretch to the heavy duty ones. At least that was I know that if they do not take the stated load (I wont be pushing the limits of 200kg, trust me), or are not as good as they claim, they are backed up by Axminster customer service. I wont use Rutlands out of principle now due to the poor service in the past.