Tablesaw Accessory Storage

[twistsol]

I needed some storage for my tablesaw accessories. Right now, some of it is is in a drawer in the bench by the tablesaw, my dado stack is hung on the slatwall on the other side of the workbench and my Incra Miter 5000 sits on the floor leaned up against whatever is in the area and gets knocked over from time to time and then needs to be recalibrated. Finally, my blades are on a rack on the wall, in another drawer on the other side of the shop, and hanging above the miter saw.



I had a leftover sheet of prefinished maple plywood that had a big gouge in it and it has just been sitting in the sheet goods rack for nearly a decade and two shops. I threw this together last night and will build the drawers for it this week.



It will sit under the wide extension for the table saw. I'll need to add six inch legs since it will straddle the stabilizer leg of my overarm dust collection. There will be plenty of room for the Miter 5000 to sit on top of it so I'll no longer be tripping over it, knocking it over ...

[Black walnut]

Good project. Are you going to edge band the plywood case or have the drawer fronts hang over?

[twistsol]

I plan on painting this with Rustoleum hammered metal epoxy which nicely covers the fact that I didn't bother to edge band. This is shop furniture after all. The drawer fronts will also overhang and will simply be slab fronts cut from a quarter sheet of 3/4 MDF. I built the drawers last night and got as far as gluing them up.

[twistsol]

I just realized I never posted the finished photos of this. So here it is, in place and now all my table saw tools and accessories are in one place. I also used up the last of my door/drawer handles and had to buy two more that matched. I also rerouted the dust collection hose for the tablesaw to be under the cabinet instead of over it.





I used some leftover UHMW to make runners for the Incra miter sled to sit on so I wouldn't scratch the paint.



I still need to do something about the cords hanging down as they make putting the sled away a challenge sometimes, but not painful enough that I'm motivated to solve the problem. The cords are plugged into a 15amp power switch so the breaker on that trips well before the 20 amp breaker at the panel.

[LCHIEN]

Don't be so confident in breaker trip points. Your house breaker is a complex magnetic and bimetal thermal dual trip but it likely will trip between rated and 1.4x rated current at room temperature after 2.5 hours.
change the temperature and it's even wider range. Compared to your power strip breaker the house breaker is really precise device.
oh by the way the house breaker will take around 100 seconds to trip at 2x to 5x overload or something like that.

[twistsol]

Before I added the power strip, the house panel would trip occasionally if the saw was severely overloaded or jammed. The power strip breaker has always tripped before the house breaker and that saves me a round trip walk to the panel. It trips instantly if the saw is overloaded unlike the house breaker, and it occasionally trips when starting the saw or if I forget to turn the speed down on the Shopsmith and try to start it at high speed. It is within arm's reach so it isn't an issue when it happens. My saw and the Shopsmith that shares the power strip are both 13 AMP motors.