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Got a chance to buy an older "art deco" age Unisaw for a great price but it doesn't have wings.
I've got welders and have done a fair amount of metalwork and could build some but if anyone has a better idea I'd appreciate any advice/experience.
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I've got wooden *extension* wings that I made for mine.
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I've seen them made, but the originals also come up rather often and fairly inexpensively over at OWWM.
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I’ve made them and they’re pretty quick and easy. I used 1x4 poplar for the frame, then melamine on 3/4 MDF for the top. If you want T-track or something else in it, I’ve seen that before (one of the pictures above).
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(01-20-2019, 02:00 PM)Wild Turkey Wrote: Got a chance to buy an older "art deco" age Unisaw for a great price but it doesn't have wings.
I've got welders and have done a fair amount of metalwork and could build some but if anyone has a better idea I'd appreciate any advice/experience.
If you are talking about wings (not extension tables which others have shown), it is not as simple s it looks, because you need a flat top across from one wing to another. If your plan is to weld a metal sheet stop, it may not be so easy to get a flat top depending on its size.
May be an extension top, built on either side, or as one large top sitting over the saw with a cut-out is an option.
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01-21-2019, 06:09 PM
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When I find the right table I plan to cut a hole in the middle to mount a table saw. No! Not Mamma's kitchen table..
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Although the granite kitchen table might be an interesting surround for table saw...
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granite....Hummm, How hard to router slots to match the saw table slots?
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(01-22-2019, 06:15 PM)Foggy Wrote: granite....Hummm, How hard to router slots to match the saw table slots?
Counter top shop could do it.
DIY, saw a slot out, then epoxy in a alum track.
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