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Thread: Wobbly stand
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17th November 2007, 07:48 AM #1
Wobbly stand
Because of space restrictions I'm having to combine workstations. I'm working on a triton router stand combined with a thicknesser at the bottom. It will also serve as an outfeed table so I do have some restrictions in how high and wide I can go. So far, the stand is very basic and coming along ok except for the joinery or lack of it at the base. The stand consists of 4 small casters screwed to some 19 mm melamine on which I have screwed (a 75 mm screw) from underneath the melamine 4 40 by 40 pine legs. The screws are the only thing attaching the legs to the melamine base. Further up I have some bracing to hold things steady and support the router table top. There's not much area below to add much by way of strength as the thicknesser takes up a bit of space. Any suggestions to how to strengthen the leg/base joint?
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17th November 2007, 07:50 AM #2
Any chance of a picture of the setup at the moment Tiger?
woody U.K.
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17th November 2007, 08:08 AM #3
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.
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17th November 2007, 09:34 AM #4
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.
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17th November 2007, 03:10 PM #5
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])
- Andy Mc
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17th November 2007, 05:03 PM #6
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.
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