Dale, You need to put something heavy on the base to keep the stands in place (sand bags, or something). As long as the board contacts the upper half of the roller and the stand is secure enough to stay put, the board will go over the top. I set the height by placing a long board on the tool table that I am using and then just raise the roller up to barely touch the bottom of the board. Granted, boards aren't all exactly flat, but this method works, if the stand will stay put with enough weight on it.
I have some that I made with old car wheels as the bases (free from tire dealers). I used 2 sizes of plumbing pipe for the vertical supports with one sliding inside the other and a locking knob to hold the adjustment. There is a pipe flange at the bottom to attach to the wheel. At the top, there is a piece of angle iron with a flat tab on each ent and holes drilled through to hold the roller. I found some 12" long used conveyor rollers to use on the top. You can buy both rollers with brackets or ball bearings with brackets to use on the top for rollers. You could use plastic plumbing pipe with regular end caps and center drill the caps for an axle. You might want to slip a piece of plastic (PVC) tubing over the plastic pipe, between the end caps, to make it level all the way across. I saw the program where Norm made his supports. What wasn't exactly clear to me was how he used the threaded rod as the height adjustment. Do you know how this worked? Thanks-- Mickey ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale Leavens To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Supporting the Work This won't help you too much but this week Canadian Tire has roller stands on sale for under ten bucks. I have a couple, I am of a couple of minds about them. These ones have a pipe with horizontal pipe across the bottom and a similar parallel flat steel bent up at the ends with a roller across. A second inverted 'T' hinged from a cuff that fits around the main pipe and can be slid up and down and tightened into place with a hand knob on a bolt.I paid nearly fifty bucks for mine a couple of years ago. The height is infinitely variable from something like 30 to 42 inches. I use mine to catch stock coming off my table saw or jointer or drum sander and could use it with the drill press too I suppose, just never have. My main complaint is that if the board nudges the roller stand it often prefers to fall over rather than raise the board over the top. My hero Norm Abrams has made one, a sort of box within a box with a threaded rod to be screwed up or down to set the height. He made a set of rollers on the top using plastic plumbing pipe with wooden circles in the ends and rod through. I am thinking that a very slight slope toward the approaching work might catch the end and tilt on a pivot to level and it would be secure against falling over. There is little worse than having to depend on something innately undependable. I have been known to suspend the end of a long piece from a rope attached to the overhead joists. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Stephan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 3:10 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Supporting the Work > Yesterday, I got to spend a considerable amount of time in my basement > cutting and drilling in preparation for building a workbench. The floor > is about five inches higher at the base of three of the walls than it is > in the center where there is a drain. This can present some challenges, > but I like it just the same. But I digress. > > My wife is a woman of many talents, some of which have to do with music. > She has a studio, and several adjustable music stands. > > Yesterday, I "borrowed" one of these to use while I was sawing and > running my drill press. It worked amazingly well quite frankly, and it > was sturdier than I had thought. It was easily adjustable, and because of > the sloping floor, I could make minor changes by just moving it an inch > or two in one direction or another. > > Any of you folks have different and maybe better ways of supporting work? > > Thanks for any other ideas. > > > > Bill Stephan > Kansas City, MO > (816)803-2469 > William Stephan > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. > http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > > Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From > Various List Members At The Following Address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > Visit the new archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! 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