Outfeed-Assembly Bench #1: The start and the BIG mistake

Oh, man! I feel your pain! This kind of thing happens to everyone now and then. Maybe put the saw on a mobile base and put smaller casters on the the outfeed bench?

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Been there, done that!

I would take the top off, cut it down, put the top back on and put the casters back on.
Cut the top end so that it won’t be seen under the over hanging table top.

You could also add little extensions on the sides of the box and mount your wheels on the outside instead
of under the bench.

No one will ever know.
Well except everyone in the world who as seen this post and we won’t tell :-)

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Don’t feel so bad about this, I know it is frustrating but guess what I did the same thing. But in my case my legs were made out of 2×4s and screws and took it apart and trimmed the legs to match my saw height.

Obviously you can’t do that here but one thought I had When I was building my table, but could not quite work it out, is on a episode of the NYW Norm build an assembly table that was mobile when the casters were down. However it had supports that let the caster rotate up and out of the way when the supports were removed. This might be something to consider here. With the casters up the table would be sitting on the floor and be rock steady.

This would be project # 0207.

Just a thought.

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I did this with my router table. It ended up just a little higher than I had planned. I have gotten used to it. But you aren’t the only one who has made this mistake for sure!

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I’ve made similar mistakes as well…and unfortunately am likely to again. I’m with Scott—I’d try to rig up an outrigger for the casters. Then you get the best of both worlds and can tell everyone—“Yeah, I planned it that way!”

-- Patrick, Chicago, IL www.TenonAndSpline.com

Gee, I’ve never made a mistake like that!!!! LOL

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

Put your TS on castors, too?

(Sorry, but someone had to suggest it…)

-- Ethan, http://www.merganserwoodworks.com, http://greystonegreen.blogspot.com/

Yes it would be possible to cut the top off .{with scribe and skill saw with fine blade} then pocket hole screw will finish up. I have done worse. at leases you have to much and not to lease

-- Do it right the first time. Becuase fixing it is a wast of time.

I had to laugh after the first mention of castors.

I did the exact same thing a couple years back
making a small cabinet/outfeed support for my
little contractors saw. After slapping them on the base
and setting it next to the saw took me an hour
of redoing my math to figure out the wheels are what
threw me off track.

I’ll probably do it again….

-- Still learning everything

Jason there are some good ideas above which would provide a solution. You might have done yourself a favour, that assembly table will sit on the floor solidly without the castors, hence less risk of injury & easier to work on. Have you thought of attaching the wheels on the outside & build a mechanism to rotate the wheels underneath when you want to move it around. I saw something on New Yankee Workshop where a cabinet makers factory had none the same thing. good luck whatever you do.

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