Project Information
I have a small shop, and needed more space for storage… never ending battle eh? The legs and space under the side wing of the saw stop was open territory, plus the legs on the PCS are horrible if you try to move the saw. I looked this site over, pinterest, google images and came up with this concept. Made from plywood and MDF, painted gloss black and red to match the saw colors, chrome handles to match the hardware. Idea was to look OEM.
First main drawer holds my saw blades and dado set. That system really does work nice, easy to see and retrieve. The drawer above it, not shown open, holds the cartridges, push sticks, and inserts.
The red drawers hold my router bit collection, and the two red drawers below (not shown open) hold wrenches, collets, and who ha.
Two bottom drawers hold my hand held routers… well a couple of them… I can keep the bases with each one, and their respective parts. Those are on heavy duty drawer slides.
The end view shows the router lift cabinet. I have a 4" PVC DC line build into the cabinet, and cut flush to the floor of the opening. There is an opening and swivel damper above the red drawers. The damper was painted silver, and not shown, as it was drying at the time. This allows lots of cross flow air. The router table has a fence with an extraction port on it. In the first picture you can see a 2.5" hose hanging down above the Saw Stop. This connects to the Saw Stop blade shroud or the router fence port.
You can see a pork chop in the pic as well, this is a cam lift to raise the end of the cabinet so it can move. Not thrilled with this design. It is heavy and the lift is hard to engage. I don't move it much, so I will work it out a bit later. You can see I routed my cables into the floor so I don't trip on them. These are just 12 guage extension cords plugged into an outlet. and set in groove. Code or not I like them.
I have an outlet on the back of the cabinet, and the shut off switch for the router there as well. A 45 degree sled hangs on the back, and my main cross cut sled rides on a shelf so it is handy and easy to get to . The dust collection height was a pain on the Saw Stop, so I had to come from above to get a Tee in. I used one gate to stop air from the saw when useing the router table. I don't need a gate to isolate the router, it has minimal air flow with the damper closed.
A shout out to Drew, Jetlag and Brad for their posts and projects!
First main drawer holds my saw blades and dado set. That system really does work nice, easy to see and retrieve. The drawer above it, not shown open, holds the cartridges, push sticks, and inserts.
The red drawers hold my router bit collection, and the two red drawers below (not shown open) hold wrenches, collets, and who ha.
Two bottom drawers hold my hand held routers… well a couple of them… I can keep the bases with each one, and their respective parts. Those are on heavy duty drawer slides.
The end view shows the router lift cabinet. I have a 4" PVC DC line build into the cabinet, and cut flush to the floor of the opening. There is an opening and swivel damper above the red drawers. The damper was painted silver, and not shown, as it was drying at the time. This allows lots of cross flow air. The router table has a fence with an extraction port on it. In the first picture you can see a 2.5" hose hanging down above the Saw Stop. This connects to the Saw Stop blade shroud or the router fence port.
You can see a pork chop in the pic as well, this is a cam lift to raise the end of the cabinet so it can move. Not thrilled with this design. It is heavy and the lift is hard to engage. I don't move it much, so I will work it out a bit later. You can see I routed my cables into the floor so I don't trip on them. These are just 12 guage extension cords plugged into an outlet. and set in groove. Code or not I like them.
I have an outlet on the back of the cabinet, and the shut off switch for the router there as well. A 45 degree sled hangs on the back, and my main cross cut sled rides on a shelf so it is handy and easy to get to . The dust collection height was a pain on the Saw Stop, so I had to come from above to get a Tee in. I used one gate to stop air from the saw when useing the router table. I don't need a gate to isolate the router, it has minimal air flow with the damper closed.
A shout out to Drew, Jetlag and Brad for their posts and projects!