Hi all , I’m in the process of planning a way to insulate my garage (and Dan doesn’t believe I have one
) ,
so I am trying to make my big tools mobile , this way I can move things around as required and out of the way as I work on drywalling the ceiling .
My biggest headache is my General tablesaw , so I purchaced the Shop Fox mobile base with its required extension ,and assembled it today . You gotta love Amazon Prime , as it was a simple tap on the Ipad , and 48 hours later it’s on my back deck
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I would have to say for the price of around $200 with the extension, that it’s exceptable, but less than perfect .
I am so happy that I can actually move that monster now , it’s 540 pounds! I can hardly believe I can actually move it around now .
They consider the casters heavy duty , and if that’s so I’d hate to see light duty
If the floors not extremely clean , like your prepping for surgery , these casters put up a fight .
The rubber leveling feet are actually two pieces , so they actually hang by gravity as you roll your saw around . I wonder what would happen if you ran into a crack in the floor as there dragging on the floor as your moving it?
The stand without the extension is approx $100 Canadian , so you can’t expect it to be to heavy duty . Although reviews at Amazon say otherwise ?
As you look at the last picture , the front part of the extension is flexing . I think I could remove an inch off the bar that connects the extension, that it wouldn’t be as pronounced.
I bought a welder , and in the future my plan is to build a better mobile base with square tubing ,angle iron , and much larger casters and better rubber leveling feet .
I will use the Shop Fox for my General Disk sander instead . So it won’t be a total loss .
I’m feeling ambitious, so maybe I should install my Wixey digital gauge too
so I am trying to make my big tools mobile , this way I can move things around as required and out of the way as I work on drywalling the ceiling .
My biggest headache is my General tablesaw , so I purchaced the Shop Fox mobile base with its required extension ,and assembled it today . You gotta love Amazon Prime , as it was a simple tap on the Ipad , and 48 hours later it’s on my back deck
I would have to say for the price of around $200 with the extension, that it’s exceptable, but less than perfect .
I am so happy that I can actually move that monster now , it’s 540 pounds! I can hardly believe I can actually move it around now .
They consider the casters heavy duty , and if that’s so I’d hate to see light duty
If the floors not extremely clean , like your prepping for surgery , these casters put up a fight .
The rubber leveling feet are actually two pieces , so they actually hang by gravity as you roll your saw around . I wonder what would happen if you ran into a crack in the floor as there dragging on the floor as your moving it?
The stand without the extension is approx $100 Canadian , so you can’t expect it to be to heavy duty . Although reviews at Amazon say otherwise ?
As you look at the last picture , the front part of the extension is flexing . I think I could remove an inch off the bar that connects the extension, that it wouldn’t be as pronounced.
I bought a welder , and in the future my plan is to build a better mobile base with square tubing ,angle iron , and much larger casters and better rubber leveling feet .
I will use the Shop Fox for my General Disk sander instead . So it won’t be a total loss .
I’m feeling ambitious, so maybe I should install my Wixey digital gauge too
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