New Version Mobile Storage Chest

fjimp · Post by **fjimp** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:22 pm

With all due respect to LDH for making a truly innovative mobile storage chest and giving me the idea I had never been smart enough to design, I alologize for taking his design in a rather different direction.

I hope you enjoy my take on mobile storage. I increased both the height and width of the chest. It rides on four locking castors. I made only one drawer at the bottom. On the right side of the cabinet I borrowed another idea which I cannot find the origin of and apologize to whom ever first posted a slotted rack for sanding disks and saw blades. I kept my rack nearly vertical so as to keep the balance in check. On the left side I created a rather crude PVC tree to hold those Vacuum and Dust Collector Nozzles that seem to clutter my shop. The only part missing for the moment is a pull for the drawer. Most of the cabinet is made from Red Oak. There is some white oak as well. My goal being to use up wood I had on hand. I believe I spent less than $50 for drawer slides and additional wood not already on hand. I love the abilites my Shopsmith offer me. LDH thank you for giving my a basic design to play with. Fjimp

fjimp · Post by **fjimp** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:35 pm

My apologies I tried to include pictures that were too tall. I try again. fjimp

beeg · Post by **beeg** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:39 pm

Looks GOOD Jim. What a great way to use up bits and pieces of wood. Now you have room for MORE pieces.

ldh · Post by **ldh** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:12 pm

fjimp wrote:With all due respect to LDH for making a truly innovative mobile storage chest and giving me the idea I had never been smart enough to design, I alologize for taking his design in a rather different direction.

LDH thank you for giving my a basic design to play with. Fjimp

Thanks a bunch for the mention. Looks like you have made some significant improvements over my design. You have just demonstrated one of the things that I really like about this forum and Shopsmith in general and that is sharing with others the woodworking experience.
LDH

charlese · Post by **charlese** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:32 am

Geez, Jim! You have made a storage chest large enough to hold almost everything in the shop! And it is movable! Great work! And you used scrap! You will be happy with this storage for a long time.

seajay62 · Post by **seajay62** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:59 am

Jim,

I like your variation of ldh's work. Great job and I will be making my version of it. A number of years ago, I had built the under the shopsmith cabinet with my variations and have been using it. However, some things get lost at the back of the shelves. Here are some pixs of what I have but as stated, I will be adding another cabinet like yours.

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Ed in Tampa · Post by **Ed in Tampa** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:59 am

After seeing all this nice work I'm almost ashamed to post this. I have been redoing my shop layout now for a few weeks (months actually:eek: ).

I mounted my workbench on some really slick casters that Woodcraft had on sale. The casters not only lock the wheels but also the swivel so when you lock them everything is very solid. Good to have for a workbench.

I traded where I stored my SS with my workbench so I had to move lighting and electrical outlets. Found a I had wired some lights where I incorrectly wired the neutral to the switch instead of the hot. I don't know how I did that, but it had to have been that way for 25 years so I guess I'm lucky I didn't juice myself. Fixed that one, thank you Jesus for protecting me from my own stupidity.

I moved the my bandsaw storage to a lower level, before it was mounted over my hot water tank and was becomming too heavy to lift to head level with arms fully extended. Now it is a few inches above normal use level and I can get close to it so it is very easy to store.

Now here is the part I'm embarassed about, instead of building a mobile storage unit the local Sears outlet had a 50% off sale on 4 and 5 drawer roll arounds. The price was $109 for ball bearing drawers and super casters. I couldn't have bought the hardware for that. I bought one

I was going to put my SS jointer and some other things on the top of it but found my Dewalt power mitre saw was perfect on it.

I now have my new roll around cabinet and another one, that I bought a few years ago which also holds my planner, full of my Shopsmith accessories.

I still have some electrical to work out. Some decisions on where to put which tools and I must move my wood vise, which right now is mounted on my work bench but that end is against my radial arm saw.

I'm trying to decide where I want it. I'm also trying to decide how I want my power to my work bench area. I was going to mount it under some cabinets that are right above my bench's present location. However the more I thought about it since the work bench is mobile I would probably be smart to put the electrical outlets right on the bench.

I have to move an electrical outlet for my radial arm saw, add some under the cabinet lighting and do something with my overhead wood storage.
I will try to provide pictures when the whole thing is finished.
Ed

shydragon · Post by **shydragon** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 11:49 am

Seajay62, I like your concept. Your not using up any more space then what your SS is already taking up. Plus, I like the fact that all or most of your SS accessories are right there with the machine.

Question on your under SS cabinet. When the casters are retracted, does the cabinet also rest on the floor?

seajay62 · Post by **seajay62** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:43 pm

Pat,

I had to go to the garage shop and check it out. Yes, the cabinet does rest on the floor but you could build it either way. If you want to see the plans, let me know and I'll send them to you.

Ed,

No sense in deriding yourself about the small stuff. We all make mistakes and as far as buying Sears roll arounds, if they work for you and they were less expensive, good for you.

I'm working in one side of a two car garage. The mid-point has 3 lolly columns down the line which gives me a clear demarcation to work within. Space is tight and I keep rearranging things trying to find the best working arrangement. Wheels are wonderful!

Regards,
Joe

charlese · Post by **charlese** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:06 pm

Hi Joe! I'm interested in your under the Mark V unit. Looks very nice and has a huge amount of utility. Very innovative to invent those hanging cross bars. Good Work, Joe!

A couple of questions:
1) Do the drawers have any kind of mounting hardware?
2) When the unit is suspended, is the Mark V any harder to roll around? I often - (maybe several times a day) will rotate my Mark V 90 or 180 degrees.