Storing support legs and connector tubes

[fjimp]

Tim,

I have never hung the main table. No you would not have to disassemble it. Simply hang the top side toward the wall. Simple and easy, one just needs to remember not to impale themself on the posts:D Jim

[wgander]

I used clips similar to the first post and also found the tubes too slippery to just hang, so I mounted a 2" wide shelf 3" up from the floor to sit the tubes on and mounted the clips about 18" higher. I only have one floating table and haven't made a hanger for it yet. I have two tables with legs and will probably continue to sit them on the floor when I have to remove them from the ends of the SS.
For safety reasons, I don't like things sticking out from the wall. I'm considering hanging the tables, if I can get them high enough to clear my head, but still within reach to store and retrieve.

[a1gutterman]

I used clips similar to the first post and also found the tubes too slippery to just hang, so I mounted a 2" wide shelf 3" up from the floor to sit the tubes on and mounted the clips about 18" higher. I only have one floating table and haven't made a hanger for it yet. I have two tables with legs and will probably continue to sit them on the floor when I have to remove them from the ends of the SS.
For safety reasons, I don't like things sticking out from the wall. I'm considering hanging the tables, if I can get them high enough to clear my head, but still within reach to store and retrieve.

Hi wgander,
Wood the tables, hanging on your wall, stick out farther then the tubes do now? I wood be concerned about the tables falling on my head, if they were as high as you are thinking about. Do you put anything on your walls? Cabinets? If you have cabinets, do you have a place between any two cabinets that you could mount the hanging tables? That way, they woodkn't "stick out" into traffic.

edit: Or maybe you are talking about the tables with "legs"? The floating tables might be oakay? But the ones with "legs" wood stick out too far! If that is the case, I wholly agree with you!

[dusty]

I'm curious Tim. How do you store your:

Extension Tables
Floating Tables
Main Table

When not in use on the Shopsmith?

Pictures would be great.

Mine hang on the wall about waste high. You can see them (extension tables excepted) in many of the photos I have posted.

The extension tables are placed table face down on the work bench against the back wall.

[wgander]

I'm talking about the tables with legs that mount on the ends of the SS.
I'm lucky enough to have a good sized shop, but have limited wall space due to windows, cabinets, shelves.
The shop is a separate building and the only ceiling is the underside of the roof, so I have storage space on the rafters and I'm considering hanging the tables from the rafters.

[dusty]

I'm talking about the tables with legs that mount on the ends of the SS.
I'm lucky enough to have a good sized shop, but have limited wall space due to windows, cabinets, shelves.
The shop is a separate building and the only ceiling is the underside of the roof, so I have storage space on the rafters and I'm considering hanging the tables from the rafters.

Those are the extension tables and they can be a problem when not being used on the Shopsmith.

As stated before, I set them face down on the end of the work bench - off to one side. About the only time one gets removed in my shop is when I go to the drill press mode. I don't turn much.

[a1gutterman]

I'm curious Tim. How do you store your:

Extension Tables
Floating Tables
Main Table

When not in use on the Shopsmith?

Pictures would be great.

Mine hang on the wall about waste high. You can see them (extension tables excepted) in many of the photos I have posted.

The extension tables are placed table face down on the work bench against the back wall.

Hi dusty,

I will try to describe my storage solution to you, but currently I dokn't have any pictures to show you; maybe by next weekend (I refuse to take pictures of my shop in its current condition: I will have to straighten-up first). I have built a very large and very heavy wall cabinet that has varied usage.

I started out with a solid core 48" X 80" exterior wood door. I built a cabinet to fit the door, out of 3/4" plywood, and it is 16" deep. The door is attached with a continuous hinge horizontally across the bottom of the cabinet. The door opens down, like a bread box, and has two legs that are attached with regular door hinges, to support the door-turned-table when in the lowered position. This table serves as an absolutely flat work surface among other things. After lowering the door, I have access to the inside of the cabinet. The space is divided into several compartments, and across the bottom area, I have built three drawers. These drawers hold many things, but you asked about my Mark V tables. Due to the long reach over the table, I dokn't store small items in the center drawer; I use it to store my two floating tables, four 27" connector tubes and two telescoping support legs. These things are long enough that they fit in the drawer end to end and I can reach them from either side of the table (but knot from the front of the table; 48+" to the drawer is too much for me!) I built this cabinet about 15 years ago, when I was much more limber and climbed up onto it frequently. Now, I store in the middle sections, items that I dokn't use often.

On another section of wall, I have a cabinet (with no doors) that has adequate space between its stationary, 11 1/2" deep, shelving to hold (face down like yours) my single extension table (I guess that you have two, right?) and my main table (which hangs out a few inches-so what?) when they are knot on the Mark V. I also store other SS accessories in/on both of these cabinets. I store the Mark V under the doorless cabinet when not in use.

I bought the Incra Ultimate Fence/Router System (more then a year ago), including the pre-drilled extra floating table and I am embarrassed to say that I have knot yet assembled it, and although I plan to keep it fully assembled (just like Rick had it at the travelling academy), I am knot sure just where I will be storing that, when it is knot mounted to the Mark V. It will definitely go on a wall, maybe on some self made hanger.

When I get my shop "straightened-up" and post a few pictures, I will explain more about that oversized cabinet.

[curiousgeorge]

These brackets are great for holding the poles and they come in different sizes. They are made to hold heavy shovels, etc., so they will not slip. The heavier the object the harder they hold. I got these in the hardware dept. at Home Despot.

[wgander]

Wish I saw them before, but the only ones I saw are the metal spring clips. The ones I bought have an ear marked Push (to release) on one side.

[a1gutterman]

These brackets are great for holding the poles and they come in different sizes. They are made to hold heavy shovels, etc., so they will not slip. The heavier the object the harder they hold. I got these in the hardware dept. at Home Despot.

I hadkn't seen those before; thanks, George!