Router Table Stand - 048

all right I've got some extra shop time today so I figured I would do something with my new table something to uh to get it off the ground build a little stand I I like the saw horses putting them up there but it's just a tad too high sitting on the ground it's Tad too low uh I want to keep it about about 36 37 in which is the height of my table that's a comfortable height working for me so I'm going to build a little stand to go below it um obviously it needs to be mobile so I'm going to do two swivel casters two uh straight casters and hopefully do a locking mechanism on the straight casters so I don't have anything designed anything in SketchUp I just kind of have a a need for a box with wheels on the bottom of it basically so I don't know where I'm going to go with this so I've got a basic design uh thought out roughly uh I love my dry erase board by the way this is basically what I do with most of my projects I know my total height is 362 and the distance from the ground to the top of the casters is 2 and 1/2 in my bench toop router table uh is 15 1/2 in that leaves 18 1/2 in for my stand um on a front view it's basically just going to be a box with some dimensional Pine I'm going to utilize half laap joints uh with the weight supported all the way through the sides uh the side pieces half laap joints as well 18 in uh 18 in in depth this is not drawn to scale obviously um 18 in from the front to the back and then 18 and 1/2 in tall that's really not drawn to scale anyway uh half laap joints to glue it all together um I haven't been using my my dado blade much at all in my table saw and uh I want some good practice on that so what better uh time to use it than on shop Furniture like always I'm going to use this 2 by dimensional Pine scraps um I'm going to cut them down into 3-in L uh widths I've determined that to be the width of my structural members and I can get 1 2 3 4 of the 32in length pieces out of this one and then I've got some 2x10 cut offs that uh I'm excited to use because these have been sitting around for a while waiting for a purpose so one two 3 4 of the 18 and A2 1 two 3 4 of the 18 in and that should be uh the skeleton structure uh ready to be dated and put [Music] together [Music] I got all my pieces cut to final length for the uh uh for the frame and I've done some test fitting on my datal blade for the height to get it to where these are on the same plane with a simple half flap joint here and and now I just need to start making all of my rabbits next I need to take a piece of my width I need to take a piece of my material that is the same width of what I'm using and make sure that I am flush so that I remove enough material for the next 90° piece to be half lapped right in place [Music] [Music] want to show you guys something real quick I've been cutting all these uh half flps with the dado blade instead of like a 10 ining jig just because I want my shoulder here I want this to be perfectly parallel to this surface and the way way my tendon Jig Is it's kind of kind of iffy so I don't like to use it on nice joinery uh my version of Nice joinery um but anyway this thing is throwing sawdust obviously it's a DAT head it's a dado blade set in table saw but I wanted to show you how well my make shift dust collection was working um that that was nowhere near full I obviously made a bunch of sawdust but that's how much just adding this little piece of pipe helps so that is really cool obviously this is from some other projects as well but man that got full in a hurry so there is an entire uh trash can full of sawdust that I do not have to sweep up a little bit on the floor of it but yeah uh lots of sawdust here got my 18 and 12 vertical piece 18 and 1 12 vertical piece 18 horizontal that will sit in like so and then this 18in horizontal piece like so these boards are 3 in wide obviously an inch and a half thick so that is a lot of glue surface to make that joint nice and strong uh the reason I chose the lap joint is because they are extremely easy to make and also because um one of the major woodworking Publications I don't remember the name uh someone helped me out here uh Popular Woodworking Woodworkers Journal I'm not exactly sure uh they made several several several different types of joints um spline miters dominoes uh dowels biscuits half flap uh you know several different types of joints and and they sent them them off to have them broken and tested and lo and behold the half flap joint uh was the strongest so easy strength not worried about Cosmetics although it doesn't look too bad at all uh that's how I'm going to do this uh obviously I'm just going to clamp it uh I'm not going to clamp it I'm going to glue it excuse me I'm not going to use any clamps what I'm going to do is away from the bottom and top Edge uh by I don't know obviously a little bit more than 3/4 uh this is how much area I have to work with I'm just going to put a series of screws in each one the screws will hold a mechanical joint uh will act as a mechanical joint and also uh they will be the clamps while this stuff glute dries the reason I'm staying away from this Edge is because once I get the side panels done I'm going to stand this up and put it back through the uh dado cutter and I'm going to remove a little bit of material like so so I can create another half flap for the rails that are going to go this way so uh keeping the screws above it and basically just making a sturdy skeleton box hold point out a little mistake I made I got ahead of myself um this is shop Furniture so it doesn't really matter but I got ahead of myself and I screwed these in in the wrong orientation uh like I said I'm going to remove some of this so I do not need a screw there uh no big deal just remove it and put it to the next one I did this whole did this whole frame in the same way using this triangle method pattern when I should have used this triangle pattern so not the end of the world but I am human and that may even come out so you may not even see that [Music] yeah with all my pieces cut uh you can start to see how this thing is going to take shape uh half laap joints down here at the bottom back side is where we screwed it together cut out the notch that'll be set in place and glued and then uh these two top pieces will go in like so glued and screwed and then that will be the basis of this box with the bottom side up I can start mounting my casters uh in this instance it doesn't matter if it's top or bottom or whatnot but on one side I'm going to use two uh straight straight Direction Cal casters and the other side I'm going to use two uh swivel casters now the Locking me excuse me the locking mechanism that I'm going to use or build I should say uh is one that I saw off uh I think it was Ronald walters's uh YouTube channel his miter sawce stand uh I'll find it and post the link in the description below but basically what it is is he had a straight piece of wood that is on the back side of these wheels and he had a star knob right here that tightened up this piece of wood into this direction and moved the entire piece into the wheel so you had your your mounting bracket mounting piece for the star knob that tightened it up that slid a piece of wood engaging these wheels so you lock the wheels in place and you're not going to move any so between that and also having these on the right hand side of the router with the feed Direction going going this way these wheels should be locked I shouldn't have any swivel and uh I'll get to more of the build in just a minute all right I didn't really record any of this build for the locking mechanism for the wheels simply because I didn't know if it was going to work out um coming to find out it does work but I need a longer Carriage bolt I've got a 3 and 1/2 in in there and I need a 4 in so my tolerances are pretty tight right now um basically in its loose position these wheel will spin fine and all we're doing is there's a there's a nut buried in some of this Walnut and it's all screwed into this piece of popler uh this piece of popler here here uh once turned upside down gravity will be going this way stops uh this whole assembly from falling to the ground when loosened um but anyway if I tighten it up which I can do by hand from above just reaching down it's nice and tight and it clamps this piece of board against both of these solid wheels so this is all snug these wheels become legs and nothing is moved now if I loosen this back up like I said I need a longer bolt got the wheel spin just fine um I don't know maybe if I get enough interest I'll make a video on how to make one of these uh but you know it's it's really nothing to it so let's flip it upside down put the uh bench on it the uh I'm sorry the router table on it and uh see where we're at well there's the new uh router table stand like I said not much to it uh I may put some shelves on the bottom May close it in I don't know but for right now it's at a a comfortable working height for me you know it rolls around just fine the locking mechanism screw this down the tighten up against these wheels and it's not going anywhere it up RS just fine down uh you know the only cost was about six bucks for my about six bucks for my casters everything else I had right table I had obviously from Trash to Treasure uh other than that very functional very cool and I will get a lot of good use out of it