"Cable Tech" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Anyone have any detailed plans to build a Panel Saw. I don't feel like
> shelling out over 1,000 dollars on something I could probably build
> for less than $100.
ShopNotes
The one at Rockler with the plan and hardware kit will still cost $300. Just
make one.
Platform: Build the wood frame/platform. Make sure it's square.
You could eyeball the one at Rockler
(http://www.rockler.com/ecom7/product_details.cfm?sku=5311&filter=31446) or
make a torsion box style platform like this one
(http://store.yahoo.com/plansnow/panelcutguide.html) or this
one(http://store.yahoo.com/woodstore/cutplatsheet.html).
Guide: Then bolt one something like this. Make sure it's square.
http://www.rockler.com/ecom7/product_details.cfm?&catid=7&objectgroup_id=293&offerings_id=10548
Rule: Stick a self-adhesive rule across it. Make sure it's square.
http://www.rockler.com/ecom7/product_details.cfm?&catid=54&objectgroup_id=437&offerings_id=10629
You're done. The guide and the rule will be about $75. Plus the wood (dig
for straight 2x4s). Probably as close to a $100 panel saw as you could
possibly get.
You could hang it on a wall, make easel-type legs, or if your ceiling is not
too high (like in my garage shop) put a couple of door hinges on it and hang
it from the joists (use piece of rope, a pulley, and make a catch for it,
mine comes down like pulling down an attic staircase).
"Tom Kohlman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Rockler sells a set of plans for $3.95 and they have hardware kits also.
Go
> to Rockler.com and type panel saw into the search window.
>
> "D.Mo" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> >
> > "Cable Tech" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > > Anyone have any detailed plans to build a Panel Saw. I don't feel like
> > > shelling out over 1,000 dollars on something I could probably build
> > > for less than $100.
> >
> > ShopNotes
> >
> >
>
>
Better yet.
Save $70 for the guide and make one out of a piece of hardboard and a piece
of 1x4 MDF.
Then you will come in way under $100.
<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> The one at Rockler with the plan and hardware kit will still cost $300.
Just
> make one.
>
> Platform: Build the wood frame/platform. Make sure it's square.
> You could eyeball the one at Rockler
> (http://www.rockler.com/ecom7/product_details.cfm?sku=5311&filter=31446)
or
> make a torsion box style platform like this one
> (http://store.yahoo.com/plansnow/panelcutguide.html) or this
> one(http://store.yahoo.com/woodstore/cutplatsheet.html).
>
> Guide: Then bolt one something like this. Make sure it's square.
>
http://www.rockler.com/ecom7/product_details.cfm?&catid=7&objectgroup_id=293&offerings_id=10548
>
> Rule: Stick a self-adhesive rule across it. Make sure it's square.
>
http://www.rockler.com/ecom7/product_details.cfm?&catid=54&objectgroup_id=437&offerings_id=10629
>
> You're done. The guide and the rule will be about $75. Plus the wood (dig
> for straight 2x4s). Probably as close to a $100 panel saw as you could
> possibly get.
>
> You could hang it on a wall, make easel-type legs, or if your ceiling is
not
> too high (like in my garage shop) put a couple of door hinges on it and
hang
> it from the joists (use piece of rope, a pulley, and make a catch for it,
> mine comes down like pulling down an attic staircase).
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Tom Kohlman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Rockler sells a set of plans for $3.95 and they have hardware kits also.
> Go
> > to Rockler.com and type panel saw into the search window.
> >
> > "D.Mo" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > >
> > > "Cable Tech" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > > news:[email protected]...
> > > > Anyone have any detailed plans to build a Panel Saw. I don't feel
like
> > > > shelling out over 1,000 dollars on something I could probably build
> > > > for less than $100.
> > >
> > > ShopNotes
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
In article <[email protected]>, Bay Area Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
>oh, and your labor is worth ZILCH? :)
Probably is. Since he expects us to do his research for him, he apparently
figures _our_ time isn't worth anything either.
Clue for the OP: search old posts in this ng on Google Groups.
>
>dave
>
>Cable Tech wrote:
>
>> Anyone have any detailed plans to build a Panel Saw. I don't feel like
>> shelling out over 1,000 dollars on something I could probably build
>> for less than $100.
>
--
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?
There was a good plan for one in Shop Notes several years ago that is
probably exactly what you're looking for. Well, I'm 90% sure it was Shop
Notes, but maybe it was WoodSmith. Check the Shop Notes site and you should
be able to find it.
--
Larry C in Auburn, WA
"Cable Tech" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Anyone have any detailed plans to build a Panel Saw. I don't feel like
> shelling out over 1,000 dollars on something I could probably build
> for less than $100.
Rockler sells a set of plans for $3.95 and they have hardware kits also. Go
to Rockler.com and type panel saw into the search window.
"D.Mo" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> "Cable Tech" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Anyone have any detailed plans to build a Panel Saw. I don't feel like
> > shelling out over 1,000 dollars on something I could probably build
> > for less than $100.
>
> ShopNotes
>
>