The plans are all in my head at this point :rolleyes: but I've been half tempted to go into work and try to draw this whole thing up in Solidworks, maybe someday.
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The plans are all in my head at this point :rolleyes: but I've been half tempted to go into work and try to draw this whole thing up in Solidworks, maybe someday.
At this point the last major thing to do was to add some sort of stop for the hinged section so that it sat just beyond vertical. I though about adding blocks to the underside, but it looked like...
The next step was adding a replaceable hardboard top. I screwed it down with countersunk screws, I found the countersink bit left a burr, so I had to go and carefully remove the burrs with a knife to...
Now that the elevator mechanism was all done, I started on getting the rest of the cabinet and top completed. First, I mounted the some basic face frames to the cabinets, I used some of the plywood,...
Now I was ready to add some switching and control. I found some micro switches in a surplus catalog, and a reasonaby priced DPDT, ON-OFF-ON switch on Amazon. My plan was to wire the two limit...
So that I was now looking for an electric motor, I had to figure out what to get, and how to mount it. I figured a small enough worm gear motor would be perfect, as the worm drive should help prevent...
With the winch and belt drive crank installed, I gave it a test run with no load on the elevator. It went up and down pretty smoothly. Once I was satisfied with that, I lugged the planer up on the...
With my new winch in hand, I had to figure out a way to mount it that would work out. The wich just barely fit width-wise into the slot I had boxed out, but without the crank handle attached. So then...
My original idea was to attach a set of ropes to the right hand side of the platform, and via a pair of pulleys, attach a counterweight of around 80-90lbs. of sand orsimilar, which would ride up and...
My original design called for the planer to sit on a platform that would be large enough to support it with the outfeed table extended, and the infeed table folded up. The platform would ride up on 4...
First, I knew that I had around 3' by 5' for the entire table, I drew up some rough skecthes, and started assembling a base frame for the cabinet base. I used the planer as a reference to make sure...
Finally got a project (mostly) done that went on for a couple months, and thought it was worth posting.
This is my new outfeed/assembly table, with a probably overcomplicated, but unique way to...