Shopsmith Routing System

[jsburger]

Has anyone put casters on the Shopsmith Routing System stand. This is the unit that can be used as a router table and as an overarm pin router. I spoke to Shopsmith Customer Service and they do have casters for it for $172 which I think is a little steep.

I have SS casters on my stand-alone OPR, plus a spare set of casters and brackets from a rusty basket-case OPR that I dismantled for parts. Here's a link to an old post that gives some mounting details. The link to the photos on picasaweb still works, BTW.

The link no longer works. Any suggestions?

The link in the post is to this forum and works fine here. The link to the photos in that thread may not work ( I didn't try) since it is old. That is why we encourage everyone to upload their photos here so they are always available.

[BuckeyeDennis]

I just discovered that I still have a couple of those dead-link photos ... I had downloaded them at the time for my own use.

And here’s a post with a suggestion for stiffening the stand after you move those side braces:
https://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/view ... 73#p230173

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[Mike907]

Dennis - In these pictures, the casters are mounted on the inside of the legs, but you have yours mounted with the brackets on the outside. Do you think it makes a difference one way or the other?

Mike

[BuckeyeDennis]

Dennis - In these pictures, the casters are mounted on the inside of the legs, but you have yours mounted with the brackets on the outside. Do you think it makes a difference one way or the other?

Mike

I don’t think that a couple thicknesses of sheet metal would make any difference, mechanically. But mounting them on the inside probably does look a bit cleaner. IIRC, I just left mine where they were when I bought the machine.

I also noticed that the photos above don’t show the black plastic spacers on the mounting bolts (between the brackets and the caster assembly) that I have on mine. If you zoom in on the pic in the link below, you can make them out. Again, I think I left mine the way that I received it, and cut the repositioned side braces to fit the resulting leg spacing.

https://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/wood ... 18323.html

[stephen_a._draper]

Since Shopsmith no longer sells the brackets I made my own out of wood. I also cut the lower cross brace that I removed and moved it up. This enabled me to add two shelves which solved the rigidity problem.

Bottom Shelf has relief cut for the handle.

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Front view with both shelves

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Casters viewed from inside bottom.

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Inside view of rear caster

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Outside view of rear caster.

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Close up of relief cut in shelf.

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Front view of bottom shelf.

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Front view of both shelves.

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