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9fingers wrote:Flip top with a pillar drill sounds exciting! You might want to consider gas springs for counterbalancing?
I did a flip top with a lunch box thicknesser a while back until I got my Delta monster four post thicknesser that weighs in around 250kg I decided that a motorised vertical lift was safer for that!
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Bob
RogerS wrote:Malc, I can look after your bandsaw for you if it's in the way.
The wheeled base from Axminster is good https://www.axminster.co.uk/jet-heavy-d ... es-ax20850
Malc2098 wrote:9fingers wrote:Flip top with a pillar drill sounds exciting! You might want to consider gas springs for counterbalancing?
I did a flip top with a lunch box thicknesser a while back until I got my Delta monster four post thicknesser that weighs in around 250kg I decided that a motorised vertical lift was safer for that!
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Bob
Thanks, Bob, but a vertical lift sounds far too sophisticated for me!
However, I've decided not to use the flip top pivoted, but with linkages as per Carl Holmgren's version.
https://carlholmgrenwoodworking.com/product/flip-top-tool-stand-plans/
I like the idea that the machine base wholly rests on the sides of the cabinet and doesn't rely just on the pivot and catches.
Andyp wrote:Are you sure retractable castors are necessary for every cabinet? Whenever I looked I found them to be cost prohibitive..........
Will watch with interest.
Malc2098 wrote:.....
However my overriding thoughts are that these casters are fixed to wood chassis (whatever the plural is) and so I should not use them for machine operation, because I believe the vibration could affect the fixings, unlike metal to metal fixings.
RogerS wrote:Malc2098 wrote:.....
However my overriding thoughts are that these casters are fixed to wood chassis (whatever the plural is) and so I should not use them for machine operation, because I believe the vibration could affect the fixings, unlike metal to metal fixings.
I've used casters on wood platforms with heavy stuff and never had any issues.
Malc2098 wrote:..... but I'll give the tyres a good check over.
RogerS wrote:Malc2098 wrote:..... but I'll give the tyres a good check over.
Don't forget the oil and brake fluid
DaveL wrote:Is that belt on correctly? I think it might be the wrong side of the jockey wheel, it should be pulled into the driven wheel, not pushed away from it.
DaveL wrote:Sorry, just looked at mine and it's the same as yours. But if I was setting up a jockey wheel from scratch then I would be doing it the other way to increase the amount of belt contact with the small pulley.
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