Thread: Im curious

Here is a thread I contributed to a few years ago, in it I posted a picture of my panel cutting table. My notes on its use are a couple of posts before I added the pictures.

It's designed for full sized sheets and after nearly 10 years I still haven't accumulated enough notches in the beams to contemplate flipping them over and using the other side. It truly is one of the most useful items I've ever made. It's getting used this arvo for constructing kitchen cabinets on.

I keep telling people I'm going to build another one. One day I actually will!

Im pretty much the same as everyone here. Each day there are 3 different sheets that are cut up - 9, 12 and 18mm MDF as well as 18mm ply on some occasions.

The sheets are handled with Gorilla Grippers to ease movement.

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The grippers are brilliant. They are used at the shop when collecting too and attract a LOT of attention.

The sheets are cut up on a movable torsion box, but its mostly left on the trailer now. There are two kinds, one uses 3 long 90x45's (3 metres) lengthways with 5 shorter 90x45's all half lapped together. This arrangement makes it easy to move sheets from the shop too.... the trellis acts as a brace to hold them flat to transport and they are easily snatched down with ratchet straps.

If I'm collecting heaps of sheets, I remove the #2 and #4 brace and the forklift dude can drop a heap of sheets straight on.

The arrangement stays firmly on the trailer as the undersides of the rails have a small notch for the edges to sit in.

The other cutup bench is a torsion box exactly as those specified above (the Paulk). It doubles up as a spray, glue/assembly and work bench. It is liberally coated in 1000 layers of Nitrocellulose and sits out in the yard We've used it as a temporary Christmas BBQ table too

Laying out with a tracksaw is very good (Festool used). Trims and final cuts are normally done on the tablesaw (as I find the Festool Circ saw cut isnt very smooth)