Cart for Special Purpose Tools

pennview · Post by **pennview** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 11:01 am

Bill, the sander is held in place by three strips of wood or cleats glued and tacked/screwed to the upper surface of the carcase in the form of an "H," with the horizontal bar in the H sized to fit the miter slot in the sander's table. The two vertical bars of the H fit just outside the sander's table and the three together keep the sander from moving. Originally I had used just a single strip of wood, but someone suggested the additional strip to fit the miter slot and that is indeed better.

I subsequently added a third piece of 2x4 to the mount for the jointer so that the floating table of the 510/520 system could be stored front-to-back under the infeed table of the jointer. But, if you have the dust collection fitting on the bottom of the jointer, it doesn't fit unless you remove the fitting. So, instead of adding a third layer of 2x4, I'd make two small blocks with 1 1/4" holes so there is a gap in the center to accommodate the dust collection fitting. I haven't done this, so it may require some addition tweaking to make the jointer fit with the collector in place.

I also added a piece of 2x4 with holes to the bottom level for holding the lathe tail stock and tool rest. The tail stock uses one of the holes, the tool rest the other.

The bandsaw is heavier than the strip sander so I though that higher was better for the heavier piece. Moreover, the whole thing was designed for the Special Purpose Tools I have. There are other examples of the cart made by folks with different tools, so you need to design it according to what you have or expect to have down the road.

One possible addition would be to store lathe chisels in the top drawer and add a couple of cleats across the bottom of the drawer so that it could be removed and placed on the Shopsmith's bench tubes or way tubes when turning. Center those cleats and space them so they fit just outside the bench/way tubes and they'll keep the drawer from falling off the Shopsmith while turning. This may require some adjustments in size of the drawer boxes so that the cleats don't interfere.

I had the 3/4 drawer slides on hand, so I used them. If you're buying them, perhaps full extension slides would be better, or you could dado the carcase or the sides of the drawer boxes and add some rails to avoid having to buy commercial slides.

You also could think about some caddies for holding saw blades, or design some compartments to house the blades so they're not banging into one another. Or resize the drawers to hold what you have.

I made a three-drawer cart that fits under the Shopsmith itself, so between the two I've got plenty of storage for Shopsmith items. See http://www.shopsmith.net/forums/showpos ... ostcount=9

wdelliott · Post by **wdelliott** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:04 am

Thanks for the detail. Helpful. I'm going to build one.

KDC · Post by **KDC** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:27 pm

Thats sweet!

JonE · Post by **JonE** » Fri Sep 05, 2014 10:17 am

In this thread there is a link to the plans for the cart. It no longer works. Does anyone still have the plans?

beeg · Post by **beeg** » Fri Sep 05, 2014 3:14 pm

Which post is the link in? I have this one for under the SS.

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cooch366 · Post by **cooch366** » Sat Sep 06, 2014 3:04 pm

Is there a problem with the link or am doing something wrong?

Thanks....

tom_k/mo wrote:The plans for Art's Compact SPT Cart are complete, and available for downloading on my Plans web page. There's also a new set of plans for a simple 5-Piece cube puzzle to keep the little ones occupied for a while.

beeg · Post by **beeg** » Sat Sep 06, 2014 4:24 pm

cooch366 wrote:Is there a problem with the link or am doing something wrong?

Thanks....

Yep there's a problem. Looks like Tom changed severs again.

rpd · Post by **rpd** » Sat Sep 06, 2014 4:45 pm

cooch366 wrote:Is there a problem with the link or am doing something wrong?

Thanks....

That link is dead.

tom_k/mo who made the file had it on his web site. I tried The Way Back Machine but that file wasn't archived.
I noticed that Tom had not posted anything for some time and a bit more searching on Google lead me to this, Thomas Allen Kuhn obituary.

Tom made that Sketchup file based on the cart that was made by pennview who may have a copy, but he hasn't been on this forum since the "political wars" of 2013.

Your best bet is to draw up your own using the picture in post 20 and the photos/text in the other posts as a guide.

The important dimensions will be dictated by the SPT's beeing stored.

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Sat Sep 06, 2014 5:54 pm

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JonE · Post by **JonE** » Mon Sep 08, 2014 11:56 am

Ron,
Thanks for the research. Sad news about Tom.
Thanks,
Jon

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