Shopsmith Storage

wholeshoe · Post by **wholeshoe** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:22 pm

All

I have seen pictures of storage units attached to a Mark 5 underneath to hold the various accessories.

Does anyone have any plans on information on these? It would seem like a project that all owners would want to build.

Art

tom_k/mo · Post by **tom_k/mo** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:38 pm

Here's one I've found...

lv2wdwrk · Post by **lv2wdwrk** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:08 pm

wholeshoe wrote:All

I have seen pictures of storage units attached to a Mark 5 underneath to hold the various accessories.

Does anyone have any plans on information on these? It would seem like a project that all owners would want to build.

Art

Try this link.

https://forum.shopsmith.com/viewtopic.php?t=2213

Gene Howe · Post by **Gene Howe** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:23 pm

Thanks Tom!

ryanbp01 · Post by **ryanbp01** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:43 pm

I use the storage cabinets (vertically attached), a shelf under my accessory tool storage stand as well as the accessory shelf. I don't have the storage cabinets under my Mark V because of the lift assist.

BPR

farley · Post by **farley** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:50 pm

I made that one years ago with my old SS.

http://www.shopsmith.net/forums/showthr ... 387&page=2

a picture after years of use. held up fine, through many moves. Sold it when I moved along with the SS. Tomorrow I took off from work, need to build another one. it really help a bunch of stuff. Use to store my planner in it also.

ddresser · Post by **ddresser** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:18 pm

I made that one years ago also. I modified it so the bar over the tubes is u shaped and the top of the cabinet is straight. Roll the SS over the cabinet, lower, bolt on the u, raise the cabinet.

farley · Post by **farley** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:23 pm

make a lot of sense, I'll going to make that change on my new one, thanks for sharing

easterngray · Post by **easterngray** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:47 am

Here's one that I made - a bit different, but as you can read in my post, it does result in table limitations. Alec

https://forum.shopsmith.com/viewtopic.php?t=3098

robinson46176 · Post by **robinson46176** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:22 pm

I have been looking at those "tower" pictures some more and while I have something a little different in mind the tower concept is making me to rethink some of my storage planning. I was planning on mounting most of my SS items on one section of wall and creating a "U" shaped area there to make more storage room. One problem is that the corner I was thinking of using is maybe 36' from the farthest Shopsmith. A tower unit on wheels could be easily rolled to the area where I was working rather than walking back and forth all day to get the things I forgot three times already.

I have a metal rack on wheels like this one:
http://www.martforcarts.com/carts/7.html
Mine is a little narrower than the one in the picture and my shelves are solid instead of slats. The way I am thinking is that the I will attach "T" slot plywood all around the inside and outside both sandwiching the metal frame between the inner and outer layer and for some items I would build custom brackets and supports. Other items would just hang with T-slot hangers. Most of the weight would be in the center and down low so it should be pretty stable. They carry a 1200# load rating. If I think it needs any more stability I can remake the lower frame a little bigger and move the wheels out a little in all directions. They typically load these things up with something like 80 to 100 gallons of milk so it should not have any trouble with a few SS accessories.