Well as they say, there is more than wone way toskin the cat. I don't know how heavy the commercial ones are so I gbuilt a couple. I used the sliding height adjustment from a pedestal fan that had bit the dust. The upper roller assembly is a piece of one and a half inch pvc with plugs cut with a hole saw in the ends and threaded rod for the axle. One by fours complete the u bracket to hold the roller. The base is a used brake rotor with pipe fittings to adapt to the pipe. Another one I used a couple of octagon junction box covers bolted on each side of the rotor and bolted the bracket that was with the fan onto the j box covers. Lots of different ways. Since I do ripping of one bys and two bys on this saw and almost all panel cutting on saw horses with a skil saw these roller stands work fine for me. I set the rollers about a half of an inch lower than the table so it is less likely to push sideways on the roller. Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: Max Robinson To: Blind Handyman Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 7:35 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] A new approach to the roller stand.
Dale has expressed some frustration with the typical roller stand you can buy at almost any home improvement store. Last week I saw one of Norm's TV shows in which he stated the same problems. That is, more often than not the piece of wood coming off the table saw knocks over the stand instead of going on top of it as it's supposed to. Well, Norm has come up with a solution. It's two tall wooden boxes that slide together with a floor stand on one of the boxes and 4 rollers on the other. A threaded rod runs vertically through the whole thing which is arranged for a height adjustment. It's heavy enough and has a large enough base that it shouldn't be easy to tip over. The only thing I might change when I build mine is to make the roller closest to the saw lower then the one next to it and each one just a little higher. Come to think of it the top could be made to pivot so the rollers could be all on the same level or each one just a little higher than the one before it. Whachya think of that. Regards. Max. K 4 O D S. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
