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6th January 2014, 06:22 PM #1
personally, I blame the English cricket team
As many of you know, I am passionate about my cricket. I'm not fanatical about doing this but I do tend to plan around games, especially the Ashes and, when either team collapses, I am left with a hole in my diary that I tend to fill by sulking and doing long overdue shed jobs like I did last year when the Sri Lankan team collapsed…...
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f245/p...t-team-163950/
well, the Poms have done it this time! The jokes have already started… what's the Worlds Shortest Book?
- a list of Centurions in the English Team
- role call of spectators on the 4th day of an Ashes test
- etc
Some of you are also aware that I have a 'boutique' workspace (= suffocatingly small!) and I have frequently looked at the wasted space under my Jet 16/32 sander. The supporting A frame left a triangular prism shaped space that was bl**dy near impossible to use. In a moment of spare time AND rare clarity (personally, I blame the English Cricket Team) I came up with a solution that solved a space issue, a work height issue and an unwanted gift issue!
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I mounted the sander on a midi sized filing cabinet which gave me usable storage, raised the work height, used up a previously unwanted filing cabinet AND improved dust collector suction by reducing the head.
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I added outrigger legs and castors to improve the stability and mobility but there is the downside that my adjustable roller stand is no longer tall enough to support in nor out feed. I'll have to work on that during my next lack-of-sport crisis.
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6th January 2014, 06:34 PM #2GOLD MEMBER
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I suppose you could be thankful they made it to day three.
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As there was no cricket, I had to resort to putting Christmas lights away and sorting the storage area. Tomorrow, I will try to find the workshop again but it's great that we thrashed/humiliated them.
Tom
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6th January 2014, 07:29 PM #4
Sometimes you just have to get things done.
So with a little encouragement from the team some sort of folding / collapsible / space saving in and out feed table is in order.
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6th January 2014, 10:01 PM #5
Nice work Al.
Gotta love small sheds eh? When next you see my shed you'll see two additional machines, and one less cat - I tried swinging one (the smallest one, at that).
How do you rate that sander? It looks like a good size for a boutique space. How accurate is it for thicknessing, and how flat is the result?
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6th January 2014, 10:20 PM #6
Of all my wheeled tool boxes, BS, drill press, MBS, etc etc not one is outrigged.
Outriggers in workshops are damn dangerous, take up space.
The weight going into the cabinet should keep the thing stable. all mine have weight o additional tools etc low for this reason.
Noted
Trying to save floor space only to create trip hazard/s.
More storage space means more tools and places to hide them
Depth of draws means either make sliding top trays or buy bigger tools
Need for vibration and sound dampening on top of cabinet = additional height and more work
Additional out feed required?? easy fix new drill press table is height adjustable approx same width and has been stabalised...........just watch it doesn't bite again. OR Keep eye out for ALDI roller stands height adjustable. Although heavy bookshelves might pose a problem.
It looks like your running out of room Fletty time for a bigger shed or less wood n tools
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6th January 2014, 10:38 PM #7
Hi Brett,
the sander has an excellent adjustment mechanism for parallel but mine was parallel when received and has stayed so. It is very accurate but SLOW! I find that l use it to flatten assemblies such as panelled doors and for thicknessing wildly grained timbers but, now that l have converted my thicknesses to spiral segmented cutters, it now can also handle wildly figured timbers and much quicker than the sander,
this now leaves the sander only for finishing and for (painfully slow!) thicknessing of anything wider than the 400mm width of the thicknesser,
knowing the size of your boutique workspace + 2 new machines - 1 cat, I doubt that the sander would earn a spot!
you could always bring anything needing sanding AND a bottle of red to my place?
flettya rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!
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6th January 2014, 11:55 PM #8
So when you say slow, how long to do a foot long hot dog? Metres per minute will suffice.
We just finished the second of two excellent Malbecs direct from Beunos Aires (Lola was the for a few weeks in Nov/Dec). The first was a mid-range, at around $15 duty free, but the second was a little more up-market (and down-neck). Just as well I don't have anything to sand eh?
Actually I do. I'm in the middle of putting the drawer fronts on those two remaining cabinets of tools. The new thicky (which was the machine that done the cat in) does a pretty fine job on tricky grain, but there are always the bits that get away, even from a hand plane. I'm using some Blackwood that has a bit of figure and Bird's Eye (lovely stuff from Mapleman). Now you will have to look pretty carefully for the tearout (but not the cockups), but hey, if you've got a sander, you'd still use it. Even for a shed cabinet!
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7th January 2014, 09:26 AM #9
Put it this way, it removes a max of 0.5 mm per pass so, even at a metre per minute per pass, the finishing speed is better expressed as furlongs per fortnight!
I had forgotten another plus though, the drive rollers are much closer together than they are on the thicknesser so it will safely thickness/finish much smaller workpieces which is very handy for a box-maker.
flettya rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!
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Please keep this thread going, you coves. It is a delight!
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