casters for radial arm saw
father in law has a craftsman radial arm saw he wants to give me, and
was wondering if the make a caster kit to put on them so i can roll it around...thank you |
casters for radial arm saw
If your going to try to adjust it for getting true and square cuts I
would plant it in one place and give it lots of TLC to hope things stay in adjustment. Mike M On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:45:48 -0400, (racing John) wrote: father in law has a craftsman radial arm saw he wants to give me, and was wondering if the make a caster kit to put on them so i can roll it around...thank you |
casters for radial arm saw
All of my large tools are on rolling stands. Several are on home made
stands, some are on commercial universal rolling bases. My radial arm saw, planer (400 lb. + King) and 14 " bandsaw are on homemade stands that roll into an opening in my workbench, giving me 8' + on either side of the tools to use as infeed and outfeed as well as a rip fence the full length of both benches. The stands all have a foot operated mechanism I built in that lifts the stands onto casters or drops the stands down onto adjustable legs. The workbench was installed with a laser level to line things up. It's straight and flat from end to end within the tolerances of the laser beam, with the tools in place. I can set the radial arm saw in place so that it's rip fence lines up to the workbench rip fence on either side within the thickness of a piece of paper in less than a minute. I have had the radial arm for close to thirty years. It is the most versatile tool I own. It can be almost as accurate as my table saw, a General cabinet saw with a JessEm miter gauge. It has to be checked for alignment every time the arm gets bumped or moved. It can usually be brought back into "close enough" alignment with a few thumps. Since I bought the table saw I no longer use the radial for extreme accuracy, it take too long to fiddle with. LdB racing John wrote: father in law has a craftsman radial arm saw he wants to give me, and was wondering if the make a caster kit to put on them so i can roll it around...thank you |
casters for radial arm saw
All of my large tools are on rolling stands. Several are on home made
stands, some are on commercial universal rolling bases. My radial arm saw, planer (400 lb. + King) and 14 " bandsaw are on homemade stands that roll into an opening in my workbench, giving me 8' + on either side of the tools to use as infeed and outfeed as well as a rip fence the full length of both benches. The stands all have a foot operated mechanism I built in that lifts the stands onto casters or drops the stands down onto adjustable legs. The workbench was installed with a laser level to line things up. It's straight and flat from end to end within the tolerances of the laser beam, with the tools in place. I can set the radial arm saw in place so that it's rip fence lines up to the workbench rip fence on either side within the thickness of a piece of paper in less than a minute. I have had the radial arm for close to thirty years. It is the most versatile tool I own. It can be almost as accurate as my table saw, a General cabinet saw with a JessEm miter gauge. It has to be checked for alignment every time the arm gets bumped or moved. It can usually be brought back into "close enough" alignment with a few thumps. Since I bought the table saw I no longer use the radial for extreme accuracy, it take too long to fiddle with. LdB racing John wrote: father in law has a craftsman radial arm saw he wants to give me, and was wondering if the make a caster kit to put on them so i can roll it around...thank you |
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