Photo & Miter Stand

Quite a morning.  After breakfast and during the news I spent some time on face book.  There was a picture of our nine month old granddaughter.  She is the daughter of Maison and Dalston Wells.

Carol wanted a picture Reese Wells to hang on the fridge with some of our other grandkids and great grandkids..  I worked on that for two hours trying to print the photo.   I could copy the photo, but when I wanted to print it, I could not find the then folder where the file was placed.  I put it in several other folder.  Finally I found it, but the printer would not work.  I messed around with the printer and it eventually it was printed.

The above photo shows where I finished with my miter saw stand.  There are two pieces of plywood to support the wood while being cut.  One on the left and one on the right.  The were at an angle and it was hard to make them level with the face of the saw.

I was thinking about it during the early morning while lying in bed.  I cut a short 2x4 and attached a narrow piece plywood to the flat edge of the 2x4.  I drilled a hole at each end of the plywood which I could then screw it to the top of the miter table.

I also put a piece of plywood under the miter saw.  There is a short leg of foot on the front of the saw at each end.   I put lag screw and washer and screwed it into the table.  I had to carefully trim the 2x4's so they would be the same height of the saw face.  I did it several times, just a little bit at a time.

I still had some time before i needed to go in the house.  I removed some of the junk.  I took three boxes of wood over to my neighbor, Carl Remkes.  He uses them to heat his shop during the winter..  I used a scraper to clean up the garage floor which is covered with dust and saw dust.

I got out my shop vacuum and cleaned the floor.  I should have blown the dust off all of the bench tops.  That will be another time.  I dumped the tank on the garden blew the dust off the filter.

Comments and questions are welcome.

Miter Saw Stand

A couple of days ago, I found some family history written by my dad's brothers and sisters;  I looked all morning for the files on my lap top.  I have looked before and scrolled through all the files.  I did it again this morning.  I looked one more time this morning and slowly scrolled.  I found it.  The name of the file was "scanned."  I printed the one written by my aunt Mary Johnson.  It was eight pages long.

I then started on the miter saw stand,  Yesterday, I determine that the legs were two long.  This morning I cut eight inches off each leg.  The bottom two legs have casters.  So I cut eight inches off the top of the legs.

I got a good start at cutting off the legs.  I hung it on the corner of my work bench, and began cutting with my battery operated circular saw.   The saw stop just before I completed the cut.  My phone rang.  Carol was ready to go to Fillmore to get some medication and some groceries.  I put the heavy weight on the leg to help hold it together while we were gone.  We drove to Fillmore and we were gone a little less than an hour.   We had lunch.  I then watered our plants in greenhouse six.

The tomato plants are doing well.  I put a few more tomato clips.  

One leg is off and I am ready to cut off the other leg.  After the leg is cut off, I held it together with a piece of plywood.  

The clamps hold everything together while I drill holes and screw it back together.

Here I am putting in the to rails.

It was a pleasant surprise that it is level in both directions.  That was pretty amazing.

 The top is out of a piece of plywood,  There are several piece of plywood making the bottom shelf.

The bench is finished.  There is a piece of plywood on each side to help support the wood that is to be cut.  I have a few more adjustments to make to make it easier to miter longer pieces of wood.  I might make some wings that are hinges and then block them up.


Comments and questions are welcome.

Miter Saw Cart

I wasn't much motivated to do anything to day.  I surfed Face Book.  On face book I saw some dimension for a miter box stand.  I drew up a crude simple plans and went to the garage to start building.  

I did a screen shot of the plans that were posted on Face Book.

The two of the legs have casters.  I have several casters that have a threaded bolt or stem that I screw into a drilled hole.   The don't hold well attached to end grain.  I cut this short piece of 2x4 and made the hole in the cross grain.  There are four holes for the screws.  Two on each edge.  I tried all of my larger bit sizes until I found one that was the perfect size.  I held the wood in the wood vice.  It was easy to start and to tighten.

 I screwed it to the two back legs.

My Ryobi battery operated circular is working beyond my espectation.  I had put in a fresh battery.  It doesn't slow down.

I finished the two side legs.  I cut two rails; the top one for the miter saw, and the bottom one for the corded circular saw.

I could have put most of the cart together, but Carol called and wanted me to help go through all of our photo books.  We spent the rest of the afternoon removing any photo of Eric, who passed away yesterday.  There were dozens of books which started when Carol and I were married.


Comments and questions are welcome.