I bought an old beauty shop chair at the junk shop for twenty bucks…it is adjustable with a hydraulic pedal and has a nice heavy base.I threw away the ratted out chair and bolted on a glassing rack made from scrap lumber…I made it so i can adjust the distance for short and long boards.(you can figure it out).It is great for raising the heighth while flipping the laps when glassing.It is by far one the handiest tools I have ever made.These old chairs are pretty common,just make sure that the pedal works.I first tried to make a shaping stand but it was to wobbly…If you could find one of those really heavy old Barber chairs you could probably make a cool shaping stand.
Roger- I remember you telling me about this mod on the chair once. What I’ve got is different but it just may work. I’ve got a discarded dental chair that uses a resevoir of hydraulic fluid. REAL heavy base. Actually it was going to the dump or scrap metal place for the cast iron weight. I think I’ll take the chair off and see what I’ve got to work with under there. Is yours built like the piston in a hydraulic jack? Just wondering what type of engineering is going to go into making a horizontal frame. Tom S.>>> I bought an old beauty shop chair at the junk shop for twenty bucks…it is > adjustable with a hydraulic pedal and has a nice heavy base.I threw away > the ratted out chair and bolted on a glassing rack made from scrap > lumber…I made it so i can adjust the distance for short and long > boards.(you can figure it out).It is great for raising the heighth while > flipping the laps when glassing.It is by far one the handiest tools I have > ever made.These old chairs are pretty common,just make sure that the pedal > works.I first tried to make a shaping stand but it was to wobbly…If you > could find one of those really heavy old Barber chairs you could probably > make a cool shaping stand.
Roger->>> I remember you telling me about this mod on the chair once. What I’ve got > is different but it just may work. I’ve got a discarded dental chair that > uses a resevoir of hydraulic fluid. REAL heavy base. Actually it was going > to the dump or scrap metal place for the cast iron weight. I think I’ll > take the chair off and see what I’ve got to work with under there. Is > yours built like the piston in a hydraulic jack? Just wondering what type > of engineering is going to go into making a horizontal frame.>>> Tom S. My stand is adjuustable at each end so that I can lift the back of the board up to perfect horizontal, whicw is real handy when setting up and glassing in finboxes.Just one tube sliding inside a larger one with a stopping device (bolt).
Pictures please! I really wanna see this. regards, Håvard