Well I got the roll around cabinet built, drawers made and installed and mounted
the mill and lathe on the top that I talked about in my intro.
http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/index.php?topic=12291.0
Anyway after reading about John, BogStandard's, lathe rebuild on the madmodder site,
http://madmodder.net/index.php?topic=627.0
I'm wondering if mounting the equipment on a roll around is a good idea.
I've built the cabinet square and I know the top is pdf (pretty dang flat) as all
the partitions were cut to size using the sliding table I made for my
my table saw and using stop blocks to get the length's uniform. I also built
the carcass upside down so the face frames are exactly flush to the partition tops.
I also clamped the face frames together and passed a borrowed jointer plane across
the top to make sure they were true to line before assembly. AFAICT the top
is dead flat, well as dead flat as MDF can be. There is very little visible light
across the table when I lay my very good straight edge across it at any point,
and there was no rocking when I place the lathe bed down prior to bolting it down.
Still, I wonder if I should jack the cabinet up onto blocks and get level it,
then only use the casters if I need to move it, then re-level it and not let
it sit for very long on the casters. Or should I plan on abandoning the whole
roll around idea altogether and make new separate permanent stations.
If the carcass is squarallel, meaning it's square and all sides are parallel
then it shouldn't matter but then again I'm new to this side of building 'stuff.
- Charles
the mill and lathe on the top that I talked about in my intro.
http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/index.php?topic=12291.0
Anyway after reading about John, BogStandard's, lathe rebuild on the madmodder site,
http://madmodder.net/index.php?topic=627.0
I'm wondering if mounting the equipment on a roll around is a good idea.
I've built the cabinet square and I know the top is pdf (pretty dang flat) as all
the partitions were cut to size using the sliding table I made for my
my table saw and using stop blocks to get the length's uniform. I also built
the carcass upside down so the face frames are exactly flush to the partition tops.
I also clamped the face frames together and passed a borrowed jointer plane across
the top to make sure they were true to line before assembly. AFAICT the top
is dead flat, well as dead flat as MDF can be. There is very little visible light
across the table when I lay my very good straight edge across it at any point,
and there was no rocking when I place the lathe bed down prior to bolting it down.
Still, I wonder if I should jack the cabinet up onto blocks and get level it,
then only use the casters if I need to move it, then re-level it and not let
it sit for very long on the casters. Or should I plan on abandoning the whole
roll around idea altogether and make new separate permanent stations.
If the carcass is squarallel, meaning it's square and all sides are parallel
then it shouldn't matter but then again I'm new to this side of building 'stuff.
- Charles