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24th May 2021, 11:27 AM #1Senior Member
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A new drill stand cabinet
Hi all,
Hope you enjoy this little photo montage of my newly completed drill stand cabinet. I didn't think it deserved a long running build thread with updates, just a little show & tell at the end
A couple of months ago I bought a brand new bench drill, and it stood way too tall on my current work bench I was reaching up like a child to use it. So decided that I will build it a rolling cabinet to stand on with storage, designed for my own height to use it comfortably.
The frame is 30mm SHS and the sides are 1mm sheet metal scavenged from the scrap yard. The top is 2mm sheet which the local sheet metal works folded for me. It is a painful and tedious job stitch welding that much sheet metal, and I still managed to warp a few areas but not too badly.
Ground the welds down and flattened it all off with a flapper disc and it came out pretty good. Then a few coats of primer and epoxy paint to finish it off. Now I have a great central location for all the drill bits, vices and accessories so I am quite pleased with the result. My only regret now that its complete is that it has a bit of movement on those wheels, not bad but I should have added some leveling feet which I could wind down and have it solid on the floor. I still could I suppose but for now I'm happy enough with it.
Cheers,
ratters
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24th May 2021, 11:43 AM #2Senior Member
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Nice work.
I'm using levelling castors a fair bit. Best of both worlds.
Can get a set of four for $70-80 on eBay.
GD-80 is the model I have.
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24th May 2021, 03:04 PM #3Senior Member
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Thanks @pippin88, I had a look at those and they may actually bolt directly on, or with some slight modification. The wheels I have also use that bolt pattern I think. Going to look further into it.
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24th May 2021, 04:30 PM #4Member: Blue and white apron brigade
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Looks good although I would be a tad worried about stability if it were to run into something low. A potential problem arises when pushing such a thing and it starts to tip forward and there's nothing high up to grab a hold of as once they get past a certain tip point it will be really hard to prevent it from keeping tipping. maybe a couple of concrete slabs or bricks in the bottom of the cabinet.
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24th May 2021, 05:07 PM #5
Hi Guys,
The tipping risk is why I didn't put any castors on mine.
I used a steel storage cabinet and put a 30 mm thick slab of kitchen worktop on mine with the drill bolted down on top. The whole lot is sat on a piece of conveyor belting. I must admit that the bottom of the cabinet has a lot of heavy stuff in there, vises, motors and transformers.
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This is mine ! The cabinet is painted white, a terrible choice for a workshop. I have an X - Y table fitted over the drill base. The drill table is swung round to the back and all the drills sit on there.Best Regards:
Baron J.
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24th May 2021, 07:31 PM #6
It came out great, reminds me of how I build stuff myself to save a few dollars.
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24th May 2021, 08:31 PM #7Diamond Member
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Really nice job. In regards to the stability issue what I would've done is made the base wider so that the castor wheels could sit further out.
All The Best steran50 Stewart
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