is there a universal table?

[jeff]

Hi all!

Just another newbie question: Is there something on the market that will allow me to take all my crappy tools and fit them into a universal table of some kind? Something where I can put my skill saw in upside down to become a table saw or my dremmel to become a router table, or my jig saw to become a scroll saw? I know it all sounds dangerous, I've seen more than enough accidents to thumbs and fingers on this newsgroup to know that safty is first, but such a table should be a possibility, a cheap combo table that you can stick your portable power tools into, any ideas?

[Tom]

There's no end, it seems, to Mankind's inventive nature. Why don't you design this "universal table", and patent it? Remember, "Safty (sic) First!" Tom >Subject: is there a universal table?

Someday, it'll all be over....

[Luigi Zanasi]

On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:32:55 -0500, jeff scribbled

Triton workcentre:

the accessories at the bottom. A friend had one, seemed to work well. Not cheap. Busy Bee tools carries then in Canada.

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[Charlie Self]

jeff macmill asks:

I think if you check around, you'll find multiple earlier attempts at such tables stuck in the rafters of many a woodworking shop. They were, AFAIK, each and every one a failure in one way or another, basically a cheap method of making a few extra bucks for the manufacturer from people who didn't have enough tool knowledge to resist.

Charlie Self

"In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains." Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Charles Krug]

A dremel would be seriously underpowered in that application. There HAVE been such tables for circular saws, with the guards. DAGS. Sears marketed a sabre saw table, but it looked like more trouble than it was worth, IMO.

[Walt]

I don't know about the Dremel, but...

Rockler has a series of baseplates that are all the same size and shape (in that cool blue aluminum) but take different tools. You could create a table to handle that style plate and just get different ones for each tool.

walt

[Bay Area Dave]

a Dremel doesn't have the oomph to power a router bit. A scroll saw uses narrow blades supported at each end. A skill saw as a table saw for light duty projects would be your only possibility, and even that is suspect.

dave

jeff wrote:

[Chris Merrill]

At the risk of overstating the obvious:

2 sawhorses and a sheet of plywood

[hamrdog]

build yourself a workbench 10' long and 3' deep with two layers of

3/4" plywood for the top and with 2x6 cross-pieces every 2.5'. this will allow you all sorts of options to mount various tools. right now i only have a router and 12.5" planer that i can mount, but that's only because i haven't had the need to mount anything else. your biggest problem will be devising an accurate fence to use.

andy b.