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curiousgeorge wrote:BPR,
No reason to redesign. Here is the box I made back when I first got my MKV...

Could you provide dimensions and the necessary measurements you used to create this?

BPR

My box is 16 X 13 1/2, but you can make it any size you want. As far as the indention's, it depends on where you want the box to rest. The top tubes (about 7" centers) are a different measurement than the bottom (about 9" centers). Then again, if you want them to rest on the extension, alignment tubes as Reible's did, then that is another measurement. It is entirely up to you depending on where you want the box to set.
A suggestion for making the sides with the indention's is to take a board the length you want the sides, measure the distance center to center for the indention's and drill two holes the size you want the indention's. Then all you have to do is cut the board down the center and you have the two indented sides.

curiousgeorge wrote:My box is 16 X 13 1/2, but you can make it any size you want. As far as the indention's, it depends on where you want the box to rest. The top tubes (about 7" centers) are a different measurement than the bottom (about 9" centers). Then again, if you want them to rest on the extension, alignment tubes as Reible's did, then that is another measurement. It is entirely up to you depending on where you want the box to set.
A suggestion for making the sides with the indention's is to take a board the length you want the sides, measure the distance center to center for the indention's and drill two holes the size you want the indention's. Then all you have to do is cut the board down the center and you have the two indented sides.

Perhaps you could have the indentions on all four sides of the box. Have one set of indentions to rest on the way tubes. Rotate the box 90 degrees and the other set of indentions would rest on the bench tubes. Or substitute one of those for the extension/alignment tubes. I hope I explained that clearly.

heathicus wrote:Perhaps you could have the indentions on all four sides of the box. Have one set of indentions to rest on the way tubes. Rotate the box 90 degrees and the other set of indentions would rest on the bench tubes. Or substitute one of those for the extension/alignment tubes. I hope I explained that clearly.

Yep! That would work. Good idea.

Thanks for the beautifully simple yet superflexible idea Ed!

If you didn't want these boxes to be full of sawdust (mine would be often), could make a simple cabinet in which the older style (with indents) boxes are simple drawers with knobs or just top recesses to grab as a drawer pull.

If you were determined to do the same with the new gripclip model, you might be able to do it with concentric pipes, where the inner pair of pipes are attached to the back of the cabinet, pointing, in parallel, toward the front, and stay fixed in the cabinet, and the outer pipes slide on them, extending (like file cabinet drawer glides) to a point, and then you unclip the drawer for Shopsmith use...when you're done, you clip it on and slide it in. Plenty of ways to prevent outer tubes from extending too far and falling off. Probably want to use undersized outer tube so gripclip unclipping is easy.

-w4f