Last days, I discovered that old grinding belts are prone to break by the scarf joint. This is an annoying but solvable issue.
Last summer, I spent some time designing and building a few cabinets to store my materials under the workbench. I hadn’t found the time to write about it until now, but in this post, I will share some details of the build.
One of my projects this summer was to finish the cabinet for the Wörner B13 drill press. The work mainly consisted of cladding the steel support frame with MDF. The ultimate goal was to prepare it for the electrical wiring and a set of drawers to organize the machine’s tooling.
The Leinen LZ4SB lathe cabinet has a drawer that is usually used to store the collets set. This requires to make a wood support to organize the set. I want also to store some usual tools: some live and dead centers and the wrenches needed to operate the lathe.
I begin by cutting a couple of plywood pieces to the approximate size of the drawer. I glue them to obtain a thicker plywood support.
The contractor’s cabinet saw with sliding table S250 —made in Italy— was bought to the woodworking tools trader Miquel Martínez almost as scrap. The seller was really fair and honest and never tryed to hide the real problems of the machine. However, I was heavily interested in this given its dimensions and overall buildin quality.
Moving the machine at home was done by the seller itself. This machine is mainly built as a sturdy steel plate cabinet that supports a cast iron top where the 250mm saw tilting mechanisms are attached.
