itgoze211
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Long time lurker of the GJ and have spent many a smoke break perusing the Fab forum as well as a couple of others. To say I'm a novice at welding would be understatement but I love to learn and try my hand at new things. I've had a Craftsman drill press for several years and it's come in handy in many a project, but it's a whip to move around and get up on a workmate every time I need it. So I decided to build a mobile stand for it.
I tried my hand at joining the corners of the 1" angle stock with something I saw on a blog somewhere, but didn't exactly work the way I wanted (my general MO of trying to make something more complicated than it really should be).
The top of the stand is 2 layers of 3/4" MDF glued and painted for the press to mount to.
The legs and bottom frame are 1.5" square tubing and will have casters mounted on the bottom. My first thoughts were to angle the legs out a couple degrees to increase the stability and make the bottom frame a little wider since the press is pretty top heavy. But trying to fab the angles and bottom frame with just a chop saw turned out to be more work than I wanted. I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to get it square and remain somewhat level. So I opted to make the body all right angles. I figured I could cut some small 45 deg legs to weld towards the bottom to make the casters sit out bit. I'll add those pics once I have them cut.
Like I said...I'm very much a novice at welding. But am always willing to take any advice and tricks of the trade.
I tried my hand at joining the corners of the 1" angle stock with something I saw on a blog somewhere, but didn't exactly work the way I wanted (my general MO of trying to make something more complicated than it really should be).
The top of the stand is 2 layers of 3/4" MDF glued and painted for the press to mount to.
The legs and bottom frame are 1.5" square tubing and will have casters mounted on the bottom. My first thoughts were to angle the legs out a couple degrees to increase the stability and make the bottom frame a little wider since the press is pretty top heavy. But trying to fab the angles and bottom frame with just a chop saw turned out to be more work than I wanted. I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to get it square and remain somewhat level. So I opted to make the body all right angles. I figured I could cut some small 45 deg legs to weld towards the bottom to make the casters sit out bit. I'll add those pics once I have them cut.
Like I said...I'm very much a novice at welding. But am always willing to take any advice and tricks of the trade.
