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Great job. I have the Craftsman and the reason that 3/4" works is the triangle. Anytime that you put angles in it srengthens it.
Regards BobLast edited by Carpenter96; 01-17-2014, 11:33 AM.Comment
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Well, when you are tired of having to pull the belt assembly / drum off of the sander, you can get to it....Please like and subscribe to my YouTube channel. Please check out and subscribe to my Workshop Blog.Comment
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Good Job!!! I want to make one of those but keep putting it off. I have the same sander and a Ridget planer. The planer is on a cabinet I made but my sander just sits on a stack of wood.Comment
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An earlier discussion thread about flip tops mentioned the 2 flipper vrs the Craftsman triangular 3 flipper's size. Not mentioned was the fact that although it had a larger footprint, the larger table top hinged up on both sides of the rotary table and allowed a lot larger tools to rotate without having to strip them down, and this machine housed 3 major tools rather than 2 major tools. 3 tools vrs 2 tools puts the average square foot per tool the same. If someone could locate a mecanism on a common appliance that we could canabilize to put on the flipper to operate the rotary table without cutting of a hand full of fingers this could be a viable machine.
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An earlier discussion thread about flip tops mentioned the 2 flipper vrs the Craftsman triangular 3 flipper's size. Not mentioned was the fact that although it had a larger footprint, the larger table top hinged up on both sides of the rotary table and allowed a lot larger tools to rotate without having to strip them down, and this machine housed 3 major tools rather than 2 major tools. 3 tools vrs 2 tools puts the average square foot per tool the same. If someone could locate a mecanism on a common appliance that we could canabilize to put on the flipper to operate the rotary table without cutting of a hand full of fingers this could be a viable machine.
capncarl
The current top (probably original) is 5/8" MDF, but does not feel secure--wouldn't trust it with a tool i like. I'll likely use 3/4" and rabbet to fit, and include some type of reinforcement under--especially if i mount the DW735 on it. If i opt to mount the planer and Ridgid sander on it, i'll actually gain a little floor space, and once i'm comfortable with that, perhaps sell the Dewalt planer stand--but that's an awful nice stand!!
I didn't get a chance to do anything with it before my foot surgery--but hopefully in a few weeks i'll be back to something besides a sandal on my right foot!!
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When it warms a little i'll shoot some pics and start a new thread. Cochese's flipper is too nice for me to hijack this thread.
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I believe Lance got the idea of the rod and bearings from this:
I made three of these, copied nearly every detail down to the hammered paint finish. The only change I made was to make them longer so I could host my bench top jointer.
Anyway, someone earlier in this thread was going to make one for their jointer/planer, and another for some sanders. I decided to go a different direction here. I have a spindle sander mounted opposite my jointer, and a disk/belt sander mounted opposite my planer. My thought was that I may be in either stock prep or finishing mode at any one time, and I wanted to be able to go between the tools easily. So far it worked well. Not so much in the stock prep phase, but in the finishing phase of a bandsaw box it was useful to be able to back and forth between the sanders easily.
So, if you are planning more than one flip top stand, think through how you will distribute the tools.Comment
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Oh, good. My next flip cart was going to incorporate my Ryobi drum sander--essentially same as Performax.
I'm wondering now, though, if I have to be extra careful to clean/vacuum the tools before they're flipped upside down so dust/chips don't go where they're not supposed to go. Or oil/lube is in a spot that should not be inverted.Comment
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