Thread: Wobbly stand

Any chance of a picture of the setup at the moment Tiger?

It's a very basic unit, I don't have a camera and am restricted to dial up access so photos are hard for me to install, will wait to see what others say as the wobble is driving me mad and may start all over again.

Must be going around Tiger I was building a drill and grinder stand on steel nothing but bad vibes so it got cut up the more I cut the better I felt. Bad angst syndrome.

Will the thicknesser be living on the bottom shelf, or will it just be stored there?
ie. do you need to be able to pass wood through it in situ?

Can you install a panel or diagonal braces between the legs at each end? They'd eliminate racking in the front/back direction, leaving you with just the left/right to worry about.

Some good steel brackets (as used to hang shelving) may do the trick then - or you may be able to get away with using a length of angle-iron. Personally I'd much prefer to incorporate an apron into the router table to strengthen the top and only use brackets on the bottoms of the legs, if at all...


(I over-engineer everything. Lightweight and delicate are two words I've never heard applied to any of my frankensteinian creations. [sigh])

Skew, the thicknesser will be active ie it will have wood passed through it. The top has enough bracing and support to hold the router table, it's the bottom part giving me the irits as there's way too much flex, don't know if I can live with it in which case I'll weld something up. I liked the pine version as it's light and easy to work with and move around.