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So my "shop" is my one car garage. My better half really likes to keep her car in my workshop, and as such, Everything has to be mobile. My shop base cabinets (repurposed from my kitchen) are all on wheels. My table saw has casters mounted to the legs, but it is a PITA to move around when necessary. So my weekend project this weekend was to make the mobility of my BT3K a little easier.
It started with this:
Which I purchased from Rockler, on sale for $50.
I had an old 2x8 which was holding down the bottom shelf of my work bench and ripped it into 1.5x1.5 boards to use as the connectors for the base.
Here is the rough fit up, which I used to mark the holes for drilling.
I borrowed my FIL's drill press (because I don't own one of those yet). to bore straight 7/16" holes in the appropriate places.
Once I connected all of the nuts and bolts, and axles and such, this is what it looked like without the saw.
Perhaps the most difficult thing of the whole project was 1. Carrying the drill press from my truck to the garage, and then lifting the saw onto the base by myself.
Other than that, we planted our flowers, the rest of our tomatoes and herbs this weekend, and did the whole "mother's day" visitations and meals.
Next weekend I will get nothing done, and that is OK with me. I get to watch my step daughter graduate from Davidson College in Davidson, NC, and then help her move her crap back home to be stored in my *shop* ( ie garage/personal storage unit) for a month before loading it all up to take to Dallas for her job.
It started with this:
Which I purchased from Rockler, on sale for $50.
I had an old 2x8 which was holding down the bottom shelf of my work bench and ripped it into 1.5x1.5 boards to use as the connectors for the base.
Here is the rough fit up, which I used to mark the holes for drilling.
I borrowed my FIL's drill press (because I don't own one of those yet). to bore straight 7/16" holes in the appropriate places.
Once I connected all of the nuts and bolts, and axles and such, this is what it looked like without the saw.
Perhaps the most difficult thing of the whole project was 1. Carrying the drill press from my truck to the garage, and then lifting the saw onto the base by myself.
Other than that, we planted our flowers, the rest of our tomatoes and herbs this weekend, and did the whole "mother's day" visitations and meals.
Next weekend I will get nothing done, and that is OK with me. I get to watch my step daughter graduate from Davidson College in Davidson, NC, and then help her move her crap back home to be stored in my *shop* ( ie garage/personal storage unit) for a month before loading it all up to take to Dallas for her job.
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