A couple months ago I got a new table saw. Not by choice but it had to be done.
As nice as it was to get a new toy in the workshop it was sort of bitter sweet. I had
a nice set up that
I was comfortable with. and in order to make the new tablesaw work in my current workstation
I knew I was going to have to redo a few things.
The first issue I had was the extention wing on the new saw. Obviously the old one didn't
have one of those and so I had built the cabinets
on both sides of the saw at the same heigth. As you can see that clearly wasn't going to
work here.
As it was I couldn't even drop the new table saw
into its spot without first doing something with that side cabinet. So just to make that
work initially what I did is
I took the short route and I just cut a couple of inches off the top of that side cabinet.
Kind of drastic I know but I knew I was going to build another cabinet and stick it on their
so in the short term, I felt
like that was ok.
Doing that allowed me to actually set the new table saw in its spot.
However, I had a few other things I needed to overcome. From the other side of the saw
I had to contend with the aluminum extrusions
that jut out form the other side.
Their was this one on the front and then their was this one on the back.
The one on the front was obviously more severe than the one on the back so I decided to move
the table saw a little bit forward.
and then cut the front of the table top flush and allow the front part to slide in front.
For the back one I cut notch into the table top. Then I had to cut another notch about
an inch or so into the side of the cabinet
in order for that to clear.
Now as far as the smaller cabinet on the other side is concerned. I built a replacement as
I said earlier.
that was short enough to allow the extention wing to slide freely over the top of it.
So with that in place I could now reattach the outfeed support and make no mistake. I
have been missing this.
However, in order to do that I did leave some overhang on the backside of the table top
so I had to remove that.
As I mentioned in the original outfeed support video I have this quarter inch lip on the
back side of the workstation.
It just so happens that a piece of luan ply fills that pretty nicely.
Then it was just a matter of reattaching a ledger board to the back side of the workstation.
That gets the ledger board attached to it.
One difference from the original outfeed support video that I had to do here was the ledger
board needed to be a little bit wider.
Thats so I could get a good stable mount to that new shorter cabinet.
My DIY twin screw vise needed to be reattached and that was a simple matter of planing a
board to fill the overhang of the top.
Drilling some coresponding holes for the vise.
And reattaching as needed.
I just made sure the top of the vise was flush with the top of the table.
Just like I did last time.
Now somebody posed a question about this twin screw vise. About whether or not it was holding
up and did I regret building
a wooden screw vise as opposed to getting a metal one. And the answer is no. This one
is holding up quite well. I do not
regret building it. in fact, I was actually missing it. Its been off of my workstation
for a couple months now and
I was getting to the point were I just wanted it back. In fact I like this one better because
when I clamp something in their
it stays and I don't have to put as much clamping force on it. Now with the metal ones if the
vibrations were a factor
I'd always have to retighten what I had clamped in there every so often.
This one here stays clamped.
And that was it. Just like that we are back in action. Ready for more Simple and Easy
DIY projects.
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