Roller supports - Woodworking Talk

woodnthings · 10-25-2009, 05:52 PM

Some of you may know of my dislike of the standard light weight, tippy and infamous roller supports from HF and Sears, which will tip over at the worst possible moment,(don't ask me how I know!) as when out feeding a board on the table saw. Worse than an incompetent helper! At least they will still be vertical in a tradgedy instead of laying over horizontal on the floor. So, at the risk of being chastised for "over building" and making things that last for generations to come, here's some of mine. I have one of those mig welders that can "spray" metal at all different angles and positions, which made a welder out of this old boy!

bill
BTW I have no idea how I put that slot in the 3/8" wall tube. I made this thing about 20 years ago. I do remember there are some tubes from an old drive shaft in the "T" bar, and a piece of 2" thinwall conduit. Handles are 1/2" bolts, heat bent. The stop collar is from a drill press column.
YEAH I have an old metal lathe, a gift from a friend, "Just get it out of our basement." Well it went from their basement to a the back of a 69' Toronado station wagon, which was severely overloaded , to my basement, in several 200 lb plus pieces. Free stuff is free stuff, no matter the cost! The next time I moved was to a rental house in the country, it came apart again.
The last time I moved it, my neighbor had a wrecker and we just "towed" it over to my new house. He just set it down on the ground and said "It's all yours". Interesting history heh?

cabinetman · 10-25-2009, 09:34 PM

Looks pretty gosh darn sturdy to me. Very innovative. Deserves a metalflake paint job IMO.

woodnthings · 10-25-2009, 11:31 PM

From an Army guy metal flake?

Woah! It wouldn't match anything I own. I'm just a simple guy, you know.

bill

skymaster · 10-26-2009, 12:00 AM

Hmmmmmm Army, flake hmmmmmmmm army flake? Yeah dats it

ROFLMAO
Sorry Wood the devil made me do it

cabinetman · 10-26-2009, 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by skymaster

Hmmmmmm Army, flake hmmmmmmmm army flake? Yeah dats it

ROFLMAO
Sorry Wood the devil made me do it

Not one nanogram of humor in that.

Blanket party for you.

Rick C. · 10-26-2009, 10:53 AM

Woodenthings,
I'm with you,build it to last generations and it won't break on you

.If it can mess up it will at the worst time.I have a couple 20" rollers from a conveyor job and plan on making some over engineered stands myself

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Cabinetman, don't worry, you're not the only flake out there.

Rick

cabinetman · 10-26-2009, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Rick C.

Cabinetman, don't worry, you're not the only flake out there.

Rick

There is a protocol on forums that asks members to respond with forethought. This would include an intellectual choice of words that don't sound demeaning either outright or by innuendo.

frankp · 10-26-2009, 06:44 PM

woodnthings, far be it for me to "chastise" you! :D The only thing I might have done differently is build a 4 legged stand instead of three... but I'm sure yours will be plenty stable as they are and still last for generations to come.

woodnthings · 10-26-2009, 10:09 PM

And I'm sure you already know it, but for all the others wondering why I chose the 3 legged camel over the 4 legged one. My concrete slab is very uneven, and since 3 points determine a plane, no matter where I put it it's stable. No rockin' and rollin'!

Now what I should do and I'll get around to it eventually...

....is put a leveling screw on one of the legs, so that it will match up with my other uneven tools. Or I could just give it a "wedgie" and slip a shim under it to level it. Not my method of solving a problem except short term.
Actually I was hoping you would respond to this one frank and chose my words carefully to see what you would have to say. All in good fun however!

That's the beauty of this forum, opinions are like belly buttons, everyone has one. Some go in, some go out, they're just different. Not right, not wrong, just different.

bill

frankp · 10-27-2009, 02:36 AM

Ha, I figured you deliberately tried to illicit a response from me with your word choice. I'm glad I could oblige. I'm curious how wide a footprint these actually have. It looks like each leg may be a little more than a foot long but it's hard to tell from the perspective in the picture. I built mine (from cheap ply I had on hand) with a four leg pattern so it could be easily collapsible. I don't like the final solution though, and I never actually collapse it so I didn't really gain that much.