This is probably going to quality as an incredibly stupid question and I suspect I will need to enlist a friend that welds.... But I have the now surplus Harbor Freight mobile base, and I would like to make my BT3100 mobile. HOWEVER I have the wide table kit on it so that is an extra complicating wrinkle...
Pretty sure I can figure out how to source up some sufficiently long 1.25" square steel tubing so that we don't experience any sag in the thing, but that would put me able to support the legs of the wide table, and the legs on one side of the BT3100 stand..
Options here are multiple involving various levels of complexity and effort. Easiest would be to basically have a friend weld in some 1.25" x 1.25" L steel and a corner plate to mimic the HF brackets on the ends and support the BT at all factory points. Easy as pie for someone that welds, and quickly done. But I don't weld...
Next best option is desireable, and something I want to run away from at the same time, and that is to just do away with the wide table kit entirely. Af first I thought it was awesome. I could crosscut full sheet goods on my table saw. Guess what? I NEVER crosscut full sheet goods on my table saw. Just not going to happen...
NOW, having said that, the guy I bought my saw from Larryl already had a mobile base of sorts on the bottom, Pretty simple gizmo involving hinged plates with casters, a cross bar and a hook. I used it with the saw before I put the wide table kit on and it worked great.
Why would I not want to just dump the wide table kit?
The router table is part of the wide table. Now there is NOTHING saying I can't cut the extension wing down such that the router table fits on the stock rails and be done with it. just considering options right now...
Honestly the more I think about it as I type this out, the more I am convincing myself to just take the wide table kit off...
Can anyone give me a good reason not to?
Pretty sure I can figure out how to source up some sufficiently long 1.25" square steel tubing so that we don't experience any sag in the thing, but that would put me able to support the legs of the wide table, and the legs on one side of the BT3100 stand..
Options here are multiple involving various levels of complexity and effort. Easiest would be to basically have a friend weld in some 1.25" x 1.25" L steel and a corner plate to mimic the HF brackets on the ends and support the BT at all factory points. Easy as pie for someone that welds, and quickly done. But I don't weld...
Next best option is desireable, and something I want to run away from at the same time, and that is to just do away with the wide table kit entirely. Af first I thought it was awesome. I could crosscut full sheet goods on my table saw. Guess what? I NEVER crosscut full sheet goods on my table saw. Just not going to happen...
NOW, having said that, the guy I bought my saw from Larryl already had a mobile base of sorts on the bottom, Pretty simple gizmo involving hinged plates with casters, a cross bar and a hook. I used it with the saw before I put the wide table kit on and it worked great.
Why would I not want to just dump the wide table kit?
The router table is part of the wide table. Now there is NOTHING saying I can't cut the extension wing down such that the router table fits on the stock rails and be done with it. just considering options right now...
Honestly the more I think about it as I type this out, the more I am convincing myself to just take the wide table kit off...
Can anyone give me a good reason not to?
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