I have a bunch of roller stands for this sort of thing and a short roller conveyor. I would suggest if your table saw has two square slots like mine that you make a shuttle that rides in both grooves in order to keep such long boards square while making your dado cuts also. The roller stands where cheap, but I have had them for years. Don't know what they would cost today.
That tends to need to scratch his noise at the worst possible, about half way through the cut, or gets distracted by the bug on the wall and watches it and lets the board bind in the saw.
On 09 Mar 2010 22:58:56 GMT, the infamous Puckdropper scrawled the following:
Yeah. They're $1,950 for the kit and come with a built in brush, vacuum, and grain comb (top and bottom on all.) The infeed roller preheats the wood so it isn't shocked from the warmth of the sander or planer blades cutting it. The outfeed roller stains and polys the wood (to any one of 1,864 different fake woodgrains) after masking off any rabbets, dadoes, and edges, pretrimming the blue tape afterwards.
Buy two sets. They're small.
I can see Swingy and Leon drooling for them right now. Can't you?
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Hehe ... New Festool stuff!? Damn, thought it was Rob's meatball thread that had my mouth watering!
Not really a big deal. 1/4" over 6' would be pretty small angle,
2/10th's of a degree I think. If your shop is in a garage or basement with floor drains, the floor slopes anyway, so unless the table is adjustable or attached to the saw, it will vary depending on where the saw is located.When I get the
Pictures of 2' tall work bench flash in my head:-)
Then put leveling feet in there so I can make sure
My work bench and side tables are the same as the table saw. Also, my jointer fence which is next to the TS on the same bench is the same height as the saw table
Hmmm, I test the fit before I even cut one production dado, and after the first cut, at least...
Jack Stein wrote in news:hnavjj$u3h$ snipped-for-privacy@news.eternal-september.org:
Actually, that part of the floor is pretty close to dead level. (It should have a practically undetectable slope outward, but that's not how they guy laid it.)
I wouldn't want to go much longer than 6' unless I had a huge side table like Norm. It's a trick keeping everything tight to the fence and flat to the table.
I did those checks too. It's always fun to see how a new (to me) joining method works out. The ultimate fit, all 8 boards on the 2 supports looked good. Time for final sanding and glue.
Puckdropper
Level Floors I am the one who suggested the rolling work bench for a side table. I have used this same table and saw three different garages of signficant diferent ages. I have found that even if the floor is not quite level it does not make a lot of difference. Unless you are working with thick materials that do not bend, most wood will easily bend a quarter to a half an inch over the lenght of the piece.
Practically this means that your side table can differ in height from the saw by that much and there will be no problem. You may have to lift the end of the board a little when you reach the table, but practically it does not effect the purpose of the side table which is to support long pieces of wood.
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I like that one. Thanks!
If you Lift the end of the board when you reach the table, it seems to me you are not getting a square cut at the blade. Maybe I'm nit picking, but I like anything going through fast moving tools to be flat on the tool's table.
It will be flat on the saw table, and can be maintained square to the fence. When I said lift the piece I meant lift the end up slightly to get it to slid on to the table. This can be done by hand or a slight incline at the edge of the table. The natural spring of the board will allow the board to lay flat on the saw table and have the end a little higher than the table. I am only talking about less than a half inch in
4 to 6 feet."LDosser" wrote in news:hnc90i$sf7$ snipped-for-privacy@news.eternal-september.org:
I do too! I probably would have used it if I knew about it.
Puckdropper
The helper's job is to support the weight of the board, not steer it. Supporting the weight of a shelf standard only takes one hand. He can pick his nose or drink a beer with the other.
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