Peter Parfitt's Low Profile Caster Carriage

[Malc2098]

Well, since I bought Tracerman's EB P/T, which I hasten to add in my limited experience is the D'sBs, (here it is with the power connected)

I needed to make myself a cabinet to store it's bits in when not being used and then some form of carriage to wheel it around the shop and to stow it away.

So, as Coley had donated some seriously nice dog ends, I decided to have a go at Peter Parfitt's low profile carriage.
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Using the P/T for the first time, I was able to get some proper wood, properly face sided, face edged, thicknessed and widthed for the first time ever, accurately!

 

[Malc2098]

I first contacted Peter who kindly sent me a copy of his plans. Peter does not charge for any of his plans, but he has written a short story which is an ebook and available from Amazon. It's only 99c and helps to fund his videos.

Anyway, having got the plans, I then adjusted the cutting list to suit my dimensions.

Then I made the first square mortice hole that I've ever done. None of my A Level pieces were this square in 1968!

Then I did some more! You can say what you like about biscuits and dominos, but a mortise and tenon is a mortise and tenon!

 

[Mike G]

Peter Parfit? England cricketer, after dinner speaker and provider of corporate hospitality at big sporting events...........sells woodworking kit too?

 

[Malc2098]

Peter Parfit? England cricketer, after dinner speaker and provider of corporate hospitality at big sporting events...........sells woodworking kit too?

Do you mean the Peter Parfitt who was a quick-footed left-hander from Norfolk and whose voice could make a taxi-driver turn his head several streets away?








No.

I mean the renowned woodworker Peter Parfitt who when he was six growing up in Bournemouth, an English coastal town, his father gave him a piece of 2×4, a 4” nail, and an old hammer. With that he fashioned a pretend radio . . . beginning a lifelong passion for woodworking.

 

[Malc2098]

After the mortises came the tenons. I used the table saw method for making the tenons.

My jury is still out because I haven't had a chance to make any tenons with the bandsaw yet.

They fitted!


I then made the caster rails with a cutout to take the swivel of the locking lever.


Then the lower carriage needed a cutout for the lower sections of the locking mechanism.

And to prove my geometry worked!

 

[Malc2098]

Carriage screwed and countersunk to take the two caster rails and one of the lateral braces.


Then P type insert nuts fitted to take the removable lateral brace.


Lateral brace drilled, counterbored and bolted to the carriage.


Permanent lateral brace fitted, and aligning centres to screw the caster rails to the carriage.

 

[RogerS]

Looking very tidy, Malc. I can see you're enjoying yourself !

 

[Malc2098]

Looking very tidy, Malc. I can see you're enjoying yourself !

Thanks, and it's warmer in there than in the house!

 

[AndyP]

that really is an elegant carriage but so much effort just to make it low profile.

 

[Coley]

That's looking really smart Malc [emoji41] May as well give it a lick of finish before putting it into use [emoji6]

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[Malc2098]

that really is an elegant carriage but so much effort just to make it low profile.

Thanks, Andy. I'm fortunate to be time rich now I'm retired, so the time and effort taken gets me experience on the machines and reminds me of some of what I learnt at school.

 

[Malc2098]

That's looking really smart Malc [emoji41] May as well give it a lick of finish before putting it into use [emoji6]

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Thanks , Coley. Your dog-ends have been brilliant! But wait a bit and you'll see a lick!

 

[Malc2098]

Just to make sure everything fits and no moving pasts would any static parts.


Apply a lick of finish.


Refit the hardware and remove the the short brace to facilitate humping the machine and cabinet onto the carriage.


A bit of sawdust porn for those who moan my floor's too clean!


Doing it's job with its cabinet.

 

[Woodbloke]

Do you mean the Peter Parfitt who was a quick-footed left-hander from Norfolk and whose voice could make a taxi-driver turn his head several streets away?








No.

I mean the renowned woodworker Peter Parfitt who when he was six growing up in Bournemouth, an English coastal town, his father gave him a piece of 2×4, a 4” nail, and an old hammer. With that he fashioned a pretend radio . . . beginning a lifelong passion for woodworking.

You also mean the quite arthritic ex-Colonel Peter Parfitt who lives near to me (I've been to his 'shop), late of the Royal Signals - Rob

 

[Malc2098]

That's him!

 

[selectortone]

 

[Malc2098]

:lol:

And Penelope Pitstop!

 

[RogerS]

We've used that make of paint before. It's cracking stuff. Unlike 'Making Love in a Canoe' Farrow & Ball.

 

[Phil]

Malc, what a super job, real craftman. :eusa-clap:

 

[Malc2098]

Malc, what a super job, real craftman. :eusa-clap:

Stoppit! You're making me blush!

 

[AndyP]

Over engineered perhaps but excellently executed.

 

[9fingers]

Over engineered perhaps but excellently executed.

What is this strange alien concept of "Over Engineering"? :lol: :lol:
Surely just normal round here !
Bob

 

[Malc2098]

You boys!

 

[kirkpoore1]

Over engineered perhaps but excellently executed.

What is this strange alien concept of "Over Engineering"? :lol: :lol:
Surely just normal round here !
Bob

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

Honestly, though, I don't know that you can overbuild a mobile base. I've taken to derating the ones I have by 50%--the first one, rated at 400 lbs, was crushed by my then table saw that weighed under 300.

Kirk