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   Johnzshopnstuff | Feb 25, 2012 07:28pm | #1

   Nice adaptation! I've been looking for a way to better utilize some dead corner space and this is it - thanks for posting a great idea - and nice work too!

   John

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   MarkKessler | Feb 26, 2012 04:49pm | #2

   Thanks John. It was a fun project to build, and relatively basic construction. All this amounts to more time left for making sawdust in other ways :)

   Mark

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   bigyelo | Feb 27, 2012 03:00pm | #3

   Very clever, I like it a lot!

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   boubakeur | Mar 06, 2012 07:41pm | #4

   I want you by the ideas of magazines are carpentry and decorationHow do I design a simple machine, carpentry

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   davemand | Apr 07, 2012 08:21pm | #5

   good job just what i need do you have any plans

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   jgossage | May 12, 2012 09:15am | #6

   Mark,
   I love this. I have been building one in my mind for the last year with 4 stations for sanders and grinders. I had not thought of the drawers so thanks for that! Where did you get your roller balls? How do you lock the top in place so it doesn't move as you're working on a particular station?

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   KiloCharley | Oct 29, 2012 07:10am | #7
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   KiloCharley | Oct 29, 2012 07:13am | #8

   Another publication has plans for this turntable system. I will probably be banned for mentioning this but the other mag begins with shop and the second word is notes. The plans were free in the article I read. Rollers for this project can be picked up at HFT

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   TheAustrian | Nov 02, 2012 11:06am | #9

   Just saw your clever design. One question: how do you prevent vibrations from rattling the circular top ? The two stop-blocks don't do anything in this respect, so do you lock the table down somehow ?

   Markus

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    tats4u2 | Nov 05, 2015 04:26pm | #10

    Hello I'm Dave and I would like the plans for the lazy stephen can I get a link where its avalible for recreation

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    jsigmon | Dec 05, 2015 07:12pm | #11

    This seems like something I would like to build. I would like to get the answers all the of the posters before me. The answers to their questions should be added to the Comments.
    Jim

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    Flutsch | Jan 12, 2016 06:49pm | #12

    Where can I find the plans for the "Lazy Steven" Tool Turn Table

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    cowtown | Jan 31, 2016 05:34am | #13

    Call me stupid if you want, but what I see is about 16 sq' of shop real estate used up by a jig saw (low utilization for me) , 3 grinders (I got way more than that and 90% is on one grinder)and what? no even slightly sophisticated sharpening guides installed? not even hand made??? No marks on the wood makes me doubt that any serious sharpening ever took place on this set up

    And a drill press too!

    Marvellous circulatory toolconcept at first glance, but no storage for drill bits be be at hand, no grinding appurtenances at hand, ...so you might be able to swivel it around like a carousel quite quickly, but yer still gonna have to waltz across the shop to find the right drill bit, the proper blade etc.

    Needless to say I ain't convinced of the actual utility of this use of shop floor real estate.

    I got normal , long and really long, short drill bits, metric/imperial /number /letter/left hand/brad point plus spares, and t o me they should be at arms length from where they are needed. How does this circus carousel fit that need fro efficiency....it don't despite how pretty it looks. That skimpy drawer under the drill press wouldn't hold even one quarter of the drill bits I nornally use

    And although I looked for the chuck key for the drill press, it wasn't there.. Mine hangs from a magnet on the face of the drill press. I'll be danged if I have to walk across the room to find the chuck key.

    But clearly the workshop has been cleansed for photography, so all those little details may well have been expunged just like the sawdust that MIGHT have been generated . C'est la vie.

    To me, it's just a mock up of someones concept of a clinical workshop and although some work may be done in it, my perspective is that is done with low efficiency. or with a high motivation to asage an ego.

    I've been in and out of workshops of all types all my life and such cleanliness and inefficient layout never exists in work-a-day environments. It's all about workstations, where EVERYTHING is close at hand,

    So as much as this carousel looks sweet, it just aint efficient

    Does no one else see the irony of storing one router in the base, when most woodbutchers have at least two or three, and where are the bits stored.?I could go on and on, but I'll stop there..said enuf.

    Eric in Calgary

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    user-6854588 | Jul 08, 2017 11:24am | #14

    lHello,
    I built this and love it! I made some modifications and some omissions.
    I did not close in the back 2 sides, just used 2 vertical 2x2s in the center of each side for strength. Saw no reason because they are against the wall. Plus if something fell off the rotating shelf I would have to crawl back in there to retrieve it. Now, since I mounted it on 5 5" casters, I can roll it out and get the errant object.
    Also, I see no reason to take out the 1/4 of the bottom, or the lower rotating shelf or the table top. I did follow the plans here and regretted it, soooo I replace the 3 removed 1/4 pieces. Would have saved a bunch of time and work had I not removed them in the first place.
    Also, since the tools I planned on putting on the rotating table top are quite heavy (a 15" drill press, 2 10" band saws and a belt/disk sander), I put a 3 ft x 3 ft piece of sheet metal for the rollers to roll onto so as not to "groove" the top board. Not sure if that was necessary, but I did it as a precaution, time will tell.
    I brought my electrics up through the center pipe and installed a 6 plug outlet on its top. Now the cords do not get twisted, only the single cord coming up through the pipe, which does not twist as bad given you go the opposite direction every once in a while.
    My only real regret is that I did not make this a full 48" instead of 40".
    Monte