I want to get new racks going in the shop…I also need to compress the spaces I use in to a single room.
I am considering a floor mounted system for shaping racks and glassing stands that I can just pull up, break down and store easily (compactly).
The kicker is that the room also doubles as a woodshop with some large cabinet tools that need to roll around…so I’m looking for an inset/flush floor mount system that would accomodate a plate or cap so that the surface remains smooth enough to roll items across the floor.
Don’t know if you can see properly from the picture but i had a friend weld me up my stands with a 2ft long plate that bolts to the floor with threaded holes along the length. Then the stands have bolts with radiator valves welded on them to make them easy to unscrew and i can make the stands wider if need be. They work great.
May be to low tech for ya - But you can see my 5gal bucket racks in the warm up my shop thread. on 2.5" pvc, I interchange shaping/sanding/ding repair, glassing, and blank glue “tops.” on the same bases, and I can kick the buckets, so to speak, around as needed.
Ok - Well, I just looked at the other thread, and could only see the lower vertical pipe. Let me know if you would like and I’ll post pictures of the whole thing. I forgot to mention - easy to pick up and take outside too!
I remember seeing a picture of pretty substantial rolling stand system that Balsa built. I can't remember which thread it was in, though. It looked pretty sweet. Maybe he can post the picture again.
This also falls under the “low tech” category. It wasn’t my idea. I found it on the internet somewhere, perhaps even on swaylocks. I use an old Black and Decker Workmate bench and clamp my wooden shaping/sanding racks into the bench. When I’m done, the racks come out and are easy to store, and the Workmate folds up flat. I have found it plenty stable for shaping etc. I actually also used to stick glassing stands (made w/1 1/4" steel pipe) through clamps on the end of the racks for removable glassing racks in the same setup, but I just recently converted the glassing stands to the concrete/bucket route so I can glass (epoxy) inside my house in the warmth.
Along the same tune, you also may see my shaping sidelights/shelves/walls on wheels in the background (posted these in the old shaping room thread). I can set-up/break-down my “shaping room” in about 2 minutes.
For that matter, there's a number of miter saw stands out on the market that'd not only work as saw stands, but they'd also be handy as outfeeds, and with a little adaptation, shaping stands, glassing stands and repair stands.
I am lucky to have a rather spacious shop but as days go by things tend to accumulate and to take up room. Also, I wanted my shaping room to double as woodworking room. That’s why almost everything in the shop has been designed with wheels so that it can be moved away or outside easily. My shaping racks are built on wheels, so is the glassing rack, and all woodworking machines, too. I’m thinking about roller skates for myself, too… Lol.
I want to get new racks going in the shop...I also need to compress the spaces I use in to a single room.
I am considering a floor mounted system for shaping racks and glassing stands that I can just pull up, break down and store easily (compactly).
The kicker is that the room also doubles as a woodshop with some large cabinet tools that need to roll around...so I'm looking for an inset/flush floor mount system that would accomodate a plate or cap so that the surface remains smooth enough to roll items across the floor.
Any tips or tricks?
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I like your thinking.....I have two tables and a saw that are on wheels. The wheels lock because the driveway is not flat. One table fits behind the saw for cutting long stuff. I have some ideas for floor mounting shaping racks but have never worked out the details.....My current shaping/glassing/fixing racks are based on saw horses. Pick them up and put them in the side yard when not needed. The whole concrete base shaping rack never worked for me.....Nice stuff Balsa...
Balsa…can you get a set of those shaping stand heads in the box with the board too!!!
The way I look at it…if I can incorporate the floor mount with interchangeable heads, everything can come up and store very compactly hung on the wall or something as opposed to the buckets I use now or the sawhorse-ish setup I also use for glassing/resin-catch.
Shaping stands need to be stiff with no wobble. I would go with a bolt to the floor type deal. You can also make em pretty nice out of truck rims filled with concrete. You have to weld the uprights to them. I had a set that worked great but each stand weighed around 150 pounds.
I recently saw a set of racks made by a local shaper out of a pair of heavy weighted restraunt table bases. These things were awesome. He took the table top off and made attachments to fit the bases. Portable, adjustable and extremely solid. Pure genious..
anyone know a welder in the southern california region who might be willing to do the work to build a rack like this (or is this the excuse I was waiting for to “learn to weld”)?
Jack hammer some small holes in the garage floor, hole size will depend on how bad ass you want to make the stands?. Then cement some recesses (minimum size) 1/ 1/2 threadded female flange into the floor. Put stainless steel screws into the flange holes to the whole thing won't come loose from twisting. Set them flush and cement patch with your stand riser pipes for plum. Untwist riser pipes after cement kicks. Now take a perfect sized male threaded 1/ 1/2 chunk of pipe that fits flush to the floor / pipe flange......grind the whole thing flush to perfection. cement, steel etc. Take that pipe chunk and dam up one end, and fill with resin or epoxy. In the filled end before it kicks completely shove a 5/8 nut just to the top of the pipe, but recessed. reinsert the pipe chunk into the recessed flange, and grind again for flushness.
Now you have a clean install of a completely flush floor stand system. You can sweep, wash, roll over without getting wheels stuck. Make sure you keep the threads greased and resin will never be a problem too. This nut is in case the pipe plug gets stuck you can insert a bolt and back out the pipe plug out. Now you can make all sorts of stands that fit into the holes. Shaping stands, sanding racks, glassing racks, bike stand, adjustable roller table for the table saw, router shaping table, etc, etc.
I forgot to tell, but you can see it in the upper right-hand corner of the photo: my fiberglass cloth and tissue dispenser is actually a clothes hanger rack and it’s mounted on wheels, too:
I forgot to tell, but you can see it in the upper right-hand corner of the photo: my fiberglass cloth and tissue dispenser is actually a clothes hanger rack and it's mounted on wheels, too:
You might want to consider a single post design; come up off the floor from one point into a ''T'', each end of T supports a rack. I have a set like this tapcon'd into my floor, but it would be easy to make it removable. Mine is sleeved square tubing so it's in 4 parts and fully adjustable ht/spread. You could easily do different sets of ''ends'' for glassing racks, etc.
