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   JeffKurtz | Oct 30, 2002 05:37pm | #1

   Don't have any plans, but I cut off sections from an old bed frame and had them welded together, added some garage sale locking wheels, and in a couple hours I had a stand for my jointer at less than $10.  Just do it.

   Jeff

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   user-212595 | Oct 30, 2002 06:49pm | #2

   This plan was interesting in that the handle, or lift mechanism, could be used on more than one.  Essentially, the base was a platform with sides and wheels on the back.  When the front was tilted up, the wheels became engaged.  That part is easy, the part that is more difficult and that which I don't remember is the handle.  It was made to slip under the front, had a wheel, and could be used to tilt the base back so that the wheels engaged thus allowing for easy movement.  If you decided to make several bases, the one handle would work for them all.  The nice feature was the base wasn't prone to moving as one would be if the wheels were always in contact with the floor.  I'm still looking through my magazines, if I find it, I'll post it.

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   Jamie_Buxton | Oct 31, 2002 01:19am | #3

   I've done almost that on my Unisaw, except there is no platform.   I bolted wheels to one side of the base.  The wheels don't normally touch the ground.  When I lift up on the rails that support the rip fence, the wheels touch the ground, and I wheel the thing around like a wheelbarrow.   The total cost was about $20 for the wheels.  Unlike the platform approach, I never had to lift the machine on to the platform.

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   AlanTurner | Oct 31, 2002 01:35am | #4

   Like the last post, I did that with my edge sander (250 lbs), which lives in a corner and comes out for use.  Put wheels on the base, and a couple of straps on each side, slide 2/3's into the straps, and wheel it around.  When it is on only 2 wheels it is quite manuverable.  When it is not tilted up, it is on the LRF (as computerists used to say).

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   woodshark | Oct 31, 2002 05:15am | #5

   Must be FWW I saw the article somewhere recently, and I dropped my AW subscription a couple of years back (one too many "best workbench" articles)

   Probably early '02?

   -WS

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   AlanTurner | Oct 31, 2002 06:42pm | #6

   Little rubber feet. It was a joke my two then younger teenage sons were fond of. To spec. LRF when ordering a computer. Guess you had to be there.

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   SCFrankland | Oct 31, 2002 10:58pm | #7

   Check this link out.  It is a picture of a set of breaks I made for a old table saw.

   http://forums.taunton.com/tp-knots/messages?msg=6789.7

   Scott C. Frankland

   Newfoundland Wood Worker

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   LesBartel | Nov 01, 2002 05:14pm | #8

   Wood magazine has several

   http://www.woodmagazine.com/default.sph/wcontent_user.class?FNC=BottomPageLink__Astory1_html___7___40___25___61___5

   Customized Tablesaw Base

   Apr

   90

   34

   60

   They also have a link to this one:

   http://store.yahoo.com/woodstore/porplanthicc.html