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Adding an orphaned sliding table to a cabinet saw.

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I wrote this up a few weeks back for the test version of the new woodhaven and so will re-post here.
There has been some further progress but not had the workshop tidy enough to take new photos so I'll continue the thread later.

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I've just done the first mock up of my sliding carriage for my table saw. It has been months in the planing and drawing and in the last few weeks actually cutting metal and then welding it into the positions I need.

So you can see what I'm up to I'll post the 'first trial assembly photo' first and then look at some of the parts.



Ignore the clamps and the wooden prop but here is the table frame donated by Jason Fisher (WUK) about 3 years ago. This will eventually be a little higher with the top flush with the saw table itself.

This will be bolted to a carriage that runs on a hardened and ground steel guide rail seen running from the left of the next photo to the centre about half way up.



The other end of the table is supported by a telescopic arm running left -right in this photo



This is the carriage and has 4 ball races at each end spaced at 12 oclock, 4 and 8 oclock around the guide rail.



A close up of the guides at one end



Each ballrace is mounted on an eccentric bush to enable the carriage position and fit to be adjusted.



When in use the carriage runs the length of the guide (2 metres) at this angle (table not shown)



and when not needed, will rotate around the guide bar to allow the table to hang down vertically out of the way. Again, the table is not shown or to be more precise, I forgot to take a photo of it attached!!



Currently the wood workshop has been converted to the welding shop for this stage of the project. There is a bit more welding to do and then I can start on the new out feed table which will have a router set into it instead of the separate table it is now in. Although both are at the same height nominally, as I mover the current router table around, the levels move slightly (error in the floor I guess) and long routing jobs tend to hit the saw table at some stage leaving a tell-tale in the workpiece. This cannot happen with an integrated router and will give me a little extra room too.

So far so good, the carriage runs smoothly and does not foul any of the parts of the saw although the blade tilt control comes pretty close but there is a gap ;)

Cheers

Bob
 
Bloomin' amazinn guv.

Did you machine the parts that the bearings are attached to?

Too darn clever.
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Yeah. And that's with 9 fingers. Just think what it'll be like with all 10?! :o

fred
 
With the exception of the table itself and the telescopic support arm which I was given from a Record power table saw and the bearings that I bought on fleabay, the rest has been machined from basic steel and aluminium stock sections.
As well as the woodwork shop at the bottom of the garden (which doubles as the welding shop too) I am lucky enough to have a small metal working shop attached to the house.
I've been bashing metal since 1976 when I bought my first lathe. Woodwork is a relatively new hobby that I've taken up in retirement. Due to my engineering background, my approach to wood is a little unconventional as I "machine it" just like any other material and so make little use of hand tools. Eg chisels are convenient scrapers to get glue out of the corners and opening paint tins :shock:

Bob
 
It would be nice to see some of this "machined wood with the glue scraped out of the corners with a chisel".
Do we have a member's photo gallery corner on this lovely brand new web forum?

Cheers,
fred
 
fred":2weffu3r said:
Do we have a member's photo gallery corner on this lovely brand new web forum?

Cheers,
fred
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Fred, we looked at hosting photos and other files in the early days of forming The Wood Haven 2 and decided against it on the grounds of the massive increase in server storage space that we would be committing to.
Text has relatively low storage requirements bit pictures are much more greedy
There is a reason why a picture speaks a thousand words - in digital terms an average photo of a few mega pixels is probably the same and many many pages of text.

The photos you see here are hosted off server using methods chosen by the original poster eg Photobucket

There is no reason why we could not include a forum for completed projects but to be honest members will learn a whole lot more from work in progress posts supported by photos at each stage that culminate in a few pics of the finished article.

Bob
 
Lovely.
It's all very neat and precise. As if it was.... machined? ;) :D

cheers,
fred
 
A bit more progress on this project.

To accommodate the sliding capacity of the table, I needed to fit a new longer outfeed table. Some kitchen worktop offcuts were purchased via ebay. The pieces were cut and joined to form the table which is 1.3m x 1.4m. Like any surface in my workshop, it soon gets loaded up with stuff but today I cleared most of it off ready to set a router lift into it. Although part of the same job as far as I'm concerned, I'll start a new thread for the router which may be of more interest than the rather metalwork heavy job here.

For choice I would have had a matt white or other pale surface but the key thing for the ebay purchase was to get a non textured finish and this lot came shiny white - bit of a pain for the photos at times!




The rest of the sliding table work will have to wait until the Autumn once I'm back from holidays.

Bob
 
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