Bottom four pictures -- making progress:
http://ssmith1627.myphotoalbum.com/v...lbum01&page=12
Roughly following plans in a recent ShopNotes, I put together a little cabinet to support an outfeed table. Pretty happy with it so far. Used a stop block to cut the dados to give clearance for miter gauge or sled type runners and I'm happy with how that came out. Still a lot of work to be done with trim and such. I made it from birch plywood instead of MDF so I'm using poplar and half-lap joints for the trim pieces to cover up the plywood edges.
With the setup I have in the shop now, I can afford this large outfeed table. It's on levelers so I can get it pretty close to flush with the saw top. I chamfered the leading edge to help. There's a cutout for clearance around the blade guard. I stuck the cutout piece back in there for show but I'll cut another that is a tighter fit later with a chamfered edge and a finger hole for removal. I drilled a few holes on the horizontal part of the back rail and screwed on a cleat. On the bottom side of the top there's a matching cleat that locks the top to the saw and holds it at just the right height.
The top is just two layers of melamine. Instead of bringing both layers up to the edge of the saw, I just cut about 9 inches off the bottom layer. I also cut a little half moon in the bottom layer to make clearance for the saw motor when the saw is set to a 45 degree angle.
Like I said, lots more to do to complete it all but it sure is nice to have this in place. It's long enough and wide enough to either rip or crosscut a sheet of plywood, using my workbench as infeed support.
Steve
http://ssmith1627.myphotoalbum.com/v...lbum01&page=12
Roughly following plans in a recent ShopNotes, I put together a little cabinet to support an outfeed table. Pretty happy with it so far. Used a stop block to cut the dados to give clearance for miter gauge or sled type runners and I'm happy with how that came out. Still a lot of work to be done with trim and such. I made it from birch plywood instead of MDF so I'm using poplar and half-lap joints for the trim pieces to cover up the plywood edges.
With the setup I have in the shop now, I can afford this large outfeed table. It's on levelers so I can get it pretty close to flush with the saw top. I chamfered the leading edge to help. There's a cutout for clearance around the blade guard. I stuck the cutout piece back in there for show but I'll cut another that is a tighter fit later with a chamfered edge and a finger hole for removal. I drilled a few holes on the horizontal part of the back rail and screwed on a cleat. On the bottom side of the top there's a matching cleat that locks the top to the saw and holds it at just the right height.
The top is just two layers of melamine. Instead of bringing both layers up to the edge of the saw, I just cut about 9 inches off the bottom layer. I also cut a little half moon in the bottom layer to make clearance for the saw motor when the saw is set to a 45 degree angle.
Like I said, lots more to do to complete it all but it sure is nice to have this in place. It's long enough and wide enough to either rip or crosscut a sheet of plywood, using my workbench as infeed support.
Steve
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