Hi all!
Just another newbie question: Is there something on the market that will
allow me to take all my crappy tools and fit them into a universal table
of some kind? Something where I can put my skill saw in upside down to
become a table saw or my dremmel to become a router table, or my jig saw
to become a scroll saw? I know it all sounds dangerous, I've seen more
than enough accidents to thumbs and fingers on this newsgroup to know
that safty is first, but such a table should be a possibility, a cheap
combo table that you can stick your portable power tools into, any ideas?
There's no end, it seems, to Mankind's inventive nature. Why don't you design
this "universal table", and patent it? Remember, "Safty (sic) First!" Tom
>Subject: is there a
universal table?
>From: jeff [email protected]
>Date: 12/08/2003 10:32 AM US Mountain Standard Time
>Message-id: <[email protected]>
>
>Hi all!
>
>Just another newbie question: Is there something on the market that will
>allow me to take all my crappy tools and fit them into a universal table
>of some kind? Something where I can put my skill saw in upside down to
>become a table saw or my dremmel to become a router table, or my jig saw
>to become a scroll saw? I know it all sounds dangerous, I've seen more
>than enough accidents to thumbs and fingers on this newsgroup to know
>that safty is first, but such a table should be a possibility, a cheap
>combo table that you can stick your portable power tools into, any ideas?
Someday, it'll all be over....
jeff macmill asks:
>s there something on the market that will
>allow me to take all my crappy tools and fit them into a universal table
>of some kind? Something where I can put my skill saw in upside down to
>become a table saw or my dremmel to become a router table, or my jig saw
>to become a scroll saw? I know it all sounds dangerous, I've seen more
>than enough accidents to thumbs and fingers on this newsgroup to know
>that safty is first, but such a table should be a possibility, a cheap
>combo table that you can stick your portable power tools into, any ideas?
I think if you check around, you'll find multiple earlier attempts at such
tables stuck in the rafters of many a woodworking shop. They were, AFAIK, each
and every one a failure in one way or another, basically a cheap method of
making a few extra bucks for the manufacturer from people who didn't have
enough tool knowledge to resist.
Charlie Self
"In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
build yourself a workbench 10' long and 3' deep with two layers of
3/4" plywood for the top and with 2x6 cross-pieces every 2.5'. this
will allow you all sorts of options to mount various tools. right now
i only have a router and 12.5" planer that i can mount, but that's
only because i haven't had the need to mount anything else. your
biggest problem will be devising an accurate fence to use.
andy b.
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:32:55 -0500, jeff <[email protected]>
wrote:
>Hi all!
>
>Just another newbie question: Is there something on the market that will
>allow me to take all my crappy tools and fit them into a universal table
>of some kind? Something where I can put my skill saw in upside down to
>become a table saw or my dremmel to become a router table, or my jig saw
>to become a scroll saw? I know it all sounds dangerous, I've seen more
>than enough accidents to thumbs and fingers on this newsgroup to know
>that safty is first, but such a table should be a possibility, a cheap
>combo table that you can stick your portable power tools into, any ideas?
>
jeff wrote:
> Just another newbie question: Is there something on the market that will
> allow me to take all my crappy tools and fit them into a universal table
> of some kind? Something where I can put my skill saw in upside down to
> become a table saw or my dremmel to become a router table, or my jig saw
> to become a scroll saw?
At the risk of overstating the obvious:
2 sawhorses and a sheet of plywood
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a Dremel doesn't have the oomph to power a router bit. A scroll saw
uses narrow blades supported at each end. A skill saw as a table saw
for light duty projects would be your only possibility, and even that is
suspect.
dave
jeff wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Just another newbie question: Is there something on the market that will
> allow me to take all my crappy tools and fit them into a universal table
> of some kind? Something where I can put my skill saw in upside down to
> become a table saw or my dremmel to become a router table, or my jig saw
> to become a scroll saw? I know it all sounds dangerous, I've seen more
> than enough accidents to thumbs and fingers on this newsgroup to know
> that safty is first, but such a table should be a possibility, a cheap
> combo table that you can stick your portable power tools into, any ideas?
>
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:32:55 -0500, jeff <[email protected]>
scribbled
>Hi all!
>
>Just another newbie question: Is there something on the market that will
>allow me to take all my crappy tools and fit them into a universal table
>of some kind? Something where I can put my skill saw in upside down to
>become a table saw or my dremmel to become a router table, or my jig saw
>to become a scroll saw? I know it all sounds dangerous, I've seen more
>than enough accidents to thumbs and fingers on this newsgroup to know
>that safty is first, but such a table should be a possibility, a cheap
>combo table that you can stick your portable power tools into, any ideas?
Triton workcentre:
http://www.triton.net.au/front.shtml
Note the accessories at the bottom. A friend had one, seemed to work
well. Not cheap. Busy Bee tools carries then in Canada.
Luigi
Replace "no" with "yk" for real email address
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:32:55 -0500, jeff <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Just another newbie question: Is there something on the market that will
> allow me to take all my crappy tools and fit them into a universal table
> of some kind? Something where I can put my skill saw in upside down to
> become a table saw or my dremmel to become a router table, or my jig saw
> to become a scroll saw? I know it all sounds dangerous, I've seen more
> than enough accidents to thumbs and fingers on this newsgroup to know
> that safty is first, but such a table should be a possibility, a cheap
> combo table that you can stick your portable power tools into, any ideas?
>
A dremel would be seriously underpowered in that application. There
HAVE been such tables for circular saws, with the guards. DAGS. Sears
marketed a sabre saw table, but it looked like more trouble than it was
worth, IMO.
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 09:32:55 -0800, jeff wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Just another newbie question: Is there something on the market that will
> allow me to take all my crappy tools and fit them into a universal table
> of some kind? Something where I can put my skill saw in upside down to
> become a table saw or my dremmel to become a router table, or my jig saw
> to become a scroll saw? I know it all sounds dangerous, I've seen more
> than enough accidents to thumbs and fingers on this newsgroup to know
> that safty is first, but such a table should be a possibility, a cheap
> combo table that you can stick your portable power tools into, any
> ideas?
I don't know about the Dremel, but...
Rockler has a series of baseplates that are all the same size and shape
(in that cool blue aluminum) but take different tools. You could create a
table to handle that style plate and just get different ones for each
tool.
walt