No Rust Table Saw Cover

A great idea and a nice job too!

-- Use it up, Wear it out --------------- Make it do, Or do without!

Nice job Matt.
I’ve wanted to do the same thing.
I sweat like crazy in this hot weather and the cast iron sure doesn’t like that.
Plus, you get an extra work surface and who can’t use that/

Thanks for sharing your tips on the Z-rust inhibitor too.

-- Eric

What a great idea. Unfortunately I left a piece of freshly cut wood on my table saw for about a week. Might as well have set a wet sponge on it. now I am slowly buffing out a big brown rust stain… I can’t build one of these covers fast enough.

-- If I can't make it, I probably don't need it.

Nice project and thanks for the tip : )

-- When did quiet and quite become the same word ? I'm guessing about the same time as your and you're did.

great idea!

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Van Gogh -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

I like this, looks like it’s more proactive than my sheets of 1in foam board. The humidity swings with temp changes are rough on shed shops!!! This may well become my TS, Jointer, Lathe and Drill Press protectors.
Thanks for the post.

-- "Man's ingenuity has outrun his intelligence" (Joseph Wood Krutch)

Thanks for the great idea.

-- Measure "at least" twice and cut once

Why didn’t I think of that?!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

great idea and a nice job

-- Dave, from Canada, http://simplywoodproducts.ca

Hey Matt CueBall Rosendaul…How’s the Zerust lined table saw cover working? I have a new Steel City model 35990C table saw and would like to build a lined cover like yours, but I don’t know if the Zerust liner protects as advertised. I can be reached at jkhien@att.net

-- John H, Milwaukee, WI

Let me run down to the shop and I’ll look at the top very closely. Its been a wet and humid spring, in fact there was condensation running down the windows a couple weeks ago and it had me worried…....

There was a tiny bit of rust around the edges where the stuff doesn’t make contact. The table covers I built were 1/2 plywood and I made the mistake of not finishing the back sides, so they warped a little bit. If I was to do it over again, I think I’d use MDF and probably laminate the top like a countertop for easier cleanups. Because of my new fence, there is also about ½ inch that is exposed at one end. I usually cover it all the way, but that means taking the fence off my router table extension.

I’ll upload a one minute video through photobucket of the inspection I just did.

BTW I also put pieces of the same material in my router bit case, forstner bits, and hand plane box. and those are in perfect shape since they’re in closed boxes.

-- Matt CueBall Rosendaul. I don't think I've ever had a cup of coffee that didn't have cat hair or sawdust in it.