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11-27-2016, 08:44 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-27-2016, 08:50 PM by tablesawtom.)
I saw a cabinet under the floor standing drill press in a WoodSmith book and I though it was a good idea so I started one may be 4 years ago. I had the case finished for at least that long.
I bough another metal lathe metal and the only place it would go is to move the drill press. And in doing so I moved it quite a ways from where I hap-hazardly stored my drill bits and so on. I have found that over the course of tine, 50 years, ( I'm a slow learner) that if it has a home it will get put away. An example if drill bits are at the drill press they will be easier to find than on a shelf half a shop away and more than likely to also get put away.
I knew I had some drawer slides tucked away and low and behold I had 5 of the six I needed of the correct length so I start finishing the cabinet. Bought another while I was out on Black Friday.The knobs a friend of mine gave me a box of the ones shown. The wouldn't have been my first choice but they were free and made the drawer usable. I would like to put on false fronts on the drawers and finish the project but I probable will never get back to it. anyway pictures.
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PS:Now I have the drill bits in the top two drawers where they should be and slowly trying to figure out what to put in the rest
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Very nice. I have a 42" cabinet with a hardwood top and a vise attached to it next to my drill press. It has all of my drill bits and then some overflow from my regular tool box. I agree that if every tool has a place, it will go back there when done.
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Very nice!!! I cant tell by the pic, is it set back far enough to stand comfortable in front?
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Yes it is a comfortable distance to work with. The front of the drawers is only 14 inches from column. I think that makes it 7 inches from the spindle.
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11-28-2016, 06:59 AM
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Nice! I had also built a DP cabinet, and I thought it was from Woodsmith....but I like yours a lot better.
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Quote:I saw a cabinet under the floor standing drill press in a WoodSmith book and I though it was a good idea so I started one may be 4 years ago
My drill press is and has been on a mobile base. I needed it to be movable then. I friend of mine gave me the 5 inch casters that I put on the cabinet, and I love them. I haven't put the cubbies on the back side yet. And if I do I will put doors on them to help keep out the dust and chips. A drill press is a great machine for producing chips.
If one is writing for a mag. it is easy to draw in a few drawers to fill up the space. But a person should spend a lot of time thinking about what should go in the drawer and just maybe ten drawers would be better than 5 or 6.
In fact I have a couple of rolling assembly tables that I wish they had the 5 inch wheels instead of 3 inch wheels. In fact as I am writing this I figured out how to cut off the legs so I can use the 5 inch wheels. But that is for another post.
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Tom, you said: "I would like to put on false fronts on the drawers and finish the project but I probable will never get back to it."
A word of warning...I took the same approach. DP cabinet, router table cabinet, and grinder cabinet, all without drawer fronts...BAD idea!!!! Dust and chips get in the slides and become a real problem. I have to confess that I have lived with the problem for four or five years. Ever so often I have to extend the drawers and blow off the slides with the compressor. It is a real pain.
You and I will be happier when we make time to add the drawer fronts.
BTW your cabinet puts mine to shame!
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Tom,
Nice job on your drill press cabinet. You'll love it.
You and I had a similar experience. My father built a cabinet-stand for his benchtop drill press sometime in the 1970s. He never completed it, never built the drawers. I inherited it when he died in 1989 and put my drill press on it. I lived with it without drawers until a couple of years ago. I finally decided to build drawers and consolidate all of my drilling stuff in one place. Wow! What a nice improvement.
One interesting note: My dad never attached the top to the cabinet. There was a grubby panel of some unknown hardwood he used as a top and base for the drill press. I continued to use it. When I started working on the cabinet and the drawers, I took a swipe at the panel with a hand plane to see what it was. It was really nice walnut - who knew? I ripped it into boards and made my drawer fronts from it. Here's what I ended up with:
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(11-28-2016, 10:34 AM)Bill Holt Wrote: Tom, you said: "I would like to put on false fronts on the drawers and finish the project but I probable will never get back to it."
A word of warning...I took the same approach. DP cabinet, router table cabinet, and grinder cabinet, all without drawer fronts...BAD idea!!!! Dust and chips get in the slides and become a real problem. I have to confess that I have lived with the problem for four or five years. Ever so often I have to extend the drawers and blow off the slides with the compressor. It is a real pain.
You and I will be happier when we make time to add the drawer fronts.
BTW your cabinet puts mine to shame!
Some day I'll build a mobile cabinet for my TS storage. Yours meets the bill.
I did a similar cabinet for my lathe. Same experience, even with the false fronts. You leave a drawer open, and poof, stuff collects in the drawers. I ended up putting a kind of dust cover that extends from the top of the cabinet over the top of the drawer. No more issues, as long as I remember to close the drawer, which still happens. My cabinet is mobile, so I do move it to the side of the lathe when the lathe is in use, but you know how turning can spray shavings all over the place. I'm a big fan of organized storage. It's nice to be able to find things when you need them.
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I second the importance of drawer fronts. I had my bench top DP on a cabinet for a while, and it was amazing how nasty the cabinet got, it wasn't fully enclosed. I need to build a base for that DP, the bench it's on has to go, too much space and all it does is collect junk. DP gets very little space. I think there is even junk stacked on the DP base
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