Drill Press Table – Help needed
I’m building an extended table for my drill press and I had an idea I’d like to implement but I’m not sure how to go about it.
The table itself has track for a fence. I’m good there. And the underlying drill press table will tilt left and right, but not along the forward / backward axis. I’d like to make my table do that but I’m not sure how to go about this.
I have some piano hinge laying around, but the table will be fairly heavy – how can I design this thing so that I can tilt it at any reasonable angle (say up to 45 degrees) and then secure it for working?
I saw this: http://www.woodmagazine.com/wood/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/wood/story/data/397.xml
but I’m not sure that this will work for… those friction lid supports dont strike me as being particularly strong…
your thoughts?
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Why not tilt the entire table top on a piano hinge running across the back of it and suppoort the front edge with a prop rod?
Attach swivel blocks to the outside of the table base (see ShopNotes #57 for the basic table base design I have in mind ... basically a box beneath a platform) and raise the top on all-thread passing through T-nuts in the swivel blocks.
Now that you've got the creative juices flowing, I think I'll go back and modify the DP table I completed only last night! ;-)
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