Two ShopMade Mobile Tool Bases
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ธ.ค. 2016
- After building my mobile router base I turned my focus to the two other mobile Bases in my workshop that I have not been happy with. When finished they are both better, smoother and cost about half of store bought bases they replaced.
Here is the link to the Carl Holmgren video: • Retractable Casters fo... - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Another fan of Carl Holmgren here, and i must say your latch design is the cleanest I've seen. Many thanks for sharing it!
The design of the latching mechanism is what sets this assembly apart from others. Great idea!
so much better than the commercial stuff... once again, very inspiring video!
These designs are at the top of my list. Best I've seen so far and doesn't require expensive hardware. I'll be coming back here again soon to get several of my heavy tools up on mobile bases.
Thanks mate - NOW that’s what I was looking for! NICE! Best design I have seen after a heavy trawl across the net!
Glad I can help!
Best idea I've seen for a mobile base after looking at a ton of these videos. And perfect camera work showing all of the necessary steps. Thanks for this!
Thanks! I'm sure you saw Carl Holmgrens video. If not check it out. There is a link in my description.
Best mobile tool caster system I have seen thus far! Thanks for sharing!
I have not watched a great deal of these but thanks for coming up with something easy. Kudos to you.
Ice, especially the martini at the end certainly think about adopting this design on my workbench.
I’ll give this whole video and concept a “Rodgers and Ebert “
Two thumbs Up ! Top shelf my friend
The Martini is a nice touch!
So simple but yet brilliant! Why didn’t I think of that! 🤦🏼♂️ Thank you for sharing your idea! 👊
This is Great! Especially your french cleat latch. I used your ideas combined with other TH-cam videos to make a mobile base for my table saw that sits on its leveled feet when down. It cost me nothing with all salvaged materials. This is fantastic. Thanks!
what he said! thanks
I just finished this design for a custom table saw stand I built and it worked perfectly. I had the casters and the hinges and used scrap wood. It cost me nothing but my time. Excellent design. Thank you so much. Immaculate shop, btw.
This vidio is 3 years old, you must have watched an hour before me spockis51, but I'm not surprised people are finding it very useful and informative. Glad you made your own successful version, I've saved the vidio for when I build my work benches. Thanks for sharing Selandry1 5'⭐s
Thanks guys. Three years later and I still love it. Glad it helped!
Brilliant! I'm not done with my router table, but this is definitely getting added. Thank you!
FYI- The link goes to a commercial, but I found several caster videos on Carl Holmgren's channel.
Douglas Shaver check out my other video on how I made the router table mobile base. ThAnks for the info on the link. I will change it.
Excellent idea and terrific presentation, thanks for taking the time to show and explain, much appreciated
Looking at building my own workbench. Even if I don't, this is a must-have add on. Great job!
Wow!!! I love it. I have been looking for those castors but now that I have seen them in action I will just buy normal castors and create something like you have!! Love it Thankyou!
Best workbench caster design I have found thanks
When I first saw your video I thought of Carl, I discovered his videos back he first produced them I have not seen any of his video in a couple of years. Your video revealed one question that I had, but not put a lot of thought into. And that was how to determine the lift height and where to mount the hinges vertically to achieve the lift height. I have built several lifts that used Carl’s idea of the single handle like on his tool box. 😁🛫
Carl made a new video a couple of weeks ago, it was great to see him after being absent so long. I was afraid we had lost him.
I just found your videos. Great mechanism for locking! Best ive seen. Simple in use brilliant! Thank you for sharing
Gosh, this is amazing. I’m totally going to make some for my tools. And I agree, the store bought ones are usually more frustrating than anything. Thanks for sharing this video.
Your base is the slickest design I've come across. I copied and reshaped it for use under my table saw, and also scaled it up for use under a large table. Both work really well. I'm so glad to ditch the locking casters. They're a complete pain!
I had those same casters from Rockler and was astonished at how awful they were! Your design is so much smoother!
So happy that I found your video show me how terrible those rockler wheels dont work. I was just about to buy them online and decided to do just a little more youtubing for diy casters and glad I found yours! Nice job and will be doing the same thing on my benches!
I'm very pleased to have stumbled onto your channel. Thanks
Bravo! Of all the videos i looked at, I like yours the best. I'm almost done using your design for my radial arm saw. So far so good. Thanks for posting this.
Great way of bypassing expensive castors. I might simplify the design for my purposes but appreciate the inspiration! Thanks 👍🏼👍🏼
I love these lever systems. I watched a video that gave me several other ideas. I hope to apply it soon to my workbenches. Thanks for sharing.
This is the action I like most. Will build this for my 150+ kgs worktable. Thank you!
Very good solution! Thanks so much for doing all the hard work and showing the design process!
After watching this vide again you showed the secret to success on how to mount the pivot points and at what height. About 6 years ago I made single lever like Carl made for his tool box. I used a similar design on two of my tables.😁🛫
Outstanding! Well done and thank-you for sharing. I will copy design for my soon to be mobile workbench.
Great solution !!! And it looks like you could perform operations in your woodshop :) It has got to be one of the cleanest looking woodshops I have ever seen ;)
Mike van Wieringen
Funny. I am actually a medical doctor. Thanks for the nice comment about my shop. It's my favorite room in the house and I make it look nice so my wife and kids will come out there too while I'm working.
Good Video. I had a few heavy tools with manufactured bases and have found them all to have problems. The best solution is find or design a retractable caster system for each individual tool. I watched the Holmgren about a year ago and since then have been replacing these bases with my own. They're not only better, but cheaper. I really like your idea for the catch that you added. I've got a hook and eye holding two of my bases and am going to replace these with your catch as soon as I find time.
Great design, simple and affective like all great designs well done
Love it! Simple, and works well, great idea and video, thank you for sharing!
Neat cleat design. Was planning similar castor system for my cupboard. Thanks.
Thank you! I recently started volunteering at a theater with set building and I was asked to find a way of making mobile platforms stable, I think this system will work great!
Also, I will probably add one to my table saw because I have a big saw and a tiny shop haha.
I just finished adding your idea to one of my workbenches. Works Perfect, Best idea! Thankyou.
Post a video! Would love to see it.
REALLY GOOD ! A little wax for the squeak and it's perfect! I will end up using this design for my bandsaw because I dont like the generic one that you buy the corners. I like the way you made it, simple and effective. Thank you !
Awesome, I used it for my workbench and it works wonderfully, can't wait to use it on my other workbenches, thank you
Excellent latch idea. Thanks for sharing.
Ingenious! I am inspired to make even more home built solutions to common issues like this now. Thanks!
Excellent explanation! Very clear and easy to understand. Thank you.
Very nice design. Like the French cleat style catch
Excellent! Best one I've seen so far (probably best one. Period). This idea is what I'll be using.
Thank you very much, I've been looking for this and this is the easiest to understand how to make and install...
Excellent solution and explanation! Thanks!
Muy buen sistema, lo estoy poniendo en práctica con algunas modificaciones para simplificarlo y que despeje más del suelo. Pero lo que más me cautiva es la pulcritud y limpieza de ese taller, como si fuera una revista de decoración donde no hay ni un pelo fuera de lugar ... ;-)
Fantastic idea, and even better, great video production.
Very nice design. I will use your idea a design for a couple tools in my shop. Thanks
Good clean design. Many thanks
Best which I have seen so far, thanks for sharing.
Nice design and video. I too tried the "workbench" casters and, for anyone with a bench or tool giving them consideration, regard the following facts. When you raise or lower the casters, you are doing it one wheel (OUT OF FOUR) at a time. If your bench/tool weighs 300 lbs, you are putting half the weight on only one caster, the first one you attempt to raise or lower. The "workbench" casters are often rated at 110 lbs and cannot handle 150 lbs. I bent the first caster, with half the weight of my 300 lb bench, so I was asked to try another set. The same thing happened. Mine came from WC and it took me several phone calls reminding them to issue a refund. PITA! If you have a lightweight assembly table, or a bench under 150 lbs, you may be happy with them. Or just do what Selandry1 did, and build something that works better.
Nice design, I'm going to use that for the mitre saw bench I'm building.
Great video. Nice shop and a fellow shop person who enjoys a cocktail lol.
I have collected several retractable casters ideas on TH-cam and built one. I don't like the one i built so I'm going to use your design. Thanks.
Excellent video and design. I am going to use your design on my router table.
Check out my router table mobile base design. That’s my favorite.
Brilliant ! Nice idea ! Stephan from Belgium
Great execution! Thanks!
Great design, thanks, I have to modify your design to use it on the side of my very heavy workbench, since I have cabinets in the middle... thanks
Perfect, just what I was looking for. Locking wheels just don't get the same stability as placing the legs on the floor.
Love the Martini test!
As a farmer, I'm more accustomed to fixing things with a welder. I like your design for raise-able casters, but I'd sure rather weld the latching mechanism.
Excellent idea!
very well thought out fair paly man
Well done man .
Great job. Congrats
Great solution my concern is the amount of storage space under the bench it takes in the UK our home shops are much smaller and we need all the storage space we can get but have to agree it is a better and much cheaper solution than many
Nice design. Need to make a mobile system for my table saw, think I'll copy yours. Thanks
Glad I can help!
Very interesting idea, bravissimo.
Finally getting some time back in the shop and have been researching mobile base designs to add space. Best design yet!
Thanks! Check out my hidden mobile base. It’s my favorite mobile base in my workshop. th-cam.com/video/NAvl3eZOC_4/w-d-xo.html
Amigo eu não entendo seu idioma, Entretanto sua didática é tão boa, que acompanhando seu passo a passo, consigo montar. Parabéns!!!, pela iniciativa de compartilhar seus conhecimentos.
Genius, thank you for sharing
fantastic idea !!!!!!
best one on the net. thankyou!!!
Thank you so much for idea!
Nice design thanks.
Es genial su sistema para las ruedas.
Great video!
Great work.. Keep it up..
Excelente solução, ótimo projeto
Thanks for sharing!!
Wonderful!
I know I am really late to the party. But Thank you. I needed this idea.
I’m not a very prolific TH-camr. I just post ideas in my shop I think will help other people. For the past year my shop has been on honey do mode. I’m just glad people still find some of my content helpful. Since posting this video I did remake it in walnut to make it match the bench😀. The redone project can be seen in my shop tour video.
good job
Excellent!
Cool! Thx for that idea
Love this!!
Great video, thanks for sharing! Do you have any idea how to save more space for that lifting mechanism? I would like to use as much space as possible for drawers to keep tools accesible and organized. Unfortunateli I have very small space and I would like to keep my workbench mobile so I can bring it with me to garage and inside the house when not in use.
I liked your video. Do you have a video installing casters on your router table ? It's very similar to my router table currently without wheels
Great video and informative. I'm curious what software you used for the design of the latch?
1. I owe you a big thank you for the inspiration I got from your dust collection video. Really great ideas. Thanks.
2. This is more timely ingenuity! But with the cabinet I want to place under my bench, I’ll have limited space for the castor platform to rise up. Could I shorten that distance perhaps by narrowing the width of the castor platform from 8” to perhaps 4” or less?
Yes. If you watch my latest video workshop tour you will see that the workbench base has been remade out of walnut and much narrower and works great. Thanks for the nice comment.
thank you
That’s smooth. My question is this a workable solution for a table saw stand that angles outward
Not sure if you will see this but love the design. Do you happen to have build plans for your spindle sander/ planet cart?
Simple, effective and just darn good.
Brilliant
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