Building A Flip Top Tool Stand/Workstation

it's time to build the Flipkart to support my bench top sander and my planer what you're watching me do is sketch out some ideas for how I want to go about building this Flipkart I think it'll help out for keeping me on track with some of the cut dimensions and some of the general ideas that I have floating around up there in my head well I'm breaking down the four quarter inch pine and plywood this stuff's a little cheaper than the birch or some of the other veneer finishes you can get in plywood but it works out really well for what I'm doing once I got that I'll broke down and moved on to cutting some of the construction great two by fours get them down to rough length so we can go ahead and get the hole drilled to support the through rod for the upper part of the cart all this rough cutting and drilling will really make start to make sense here as we move forward with the build once I kind of had everything laid out I went ahead and marked out where the pocket holes we're gonna go to support the structural framework took it over to the pocket hole jig put that thing to good use and drilled a bunch of these holes this was the first time I had used this on thicker material and it worked very very well I was very happy with how it turned out and the holes are definitely hidden and out of sight out of mind well we've assembled the flipy part or the top this is a framework sander and plaintiff will get bolted to and what I've done is a pre-cut the bottom pieces so this is the beginning of the framework for the bottom you all right well I finished putting together the bottom frame with the Craig pocket holes pretty square pretty flat pretty happy with that another we've got the framework done I went ahead and started breaking down the plywood to get it ready for the bottom of the car went ahead and used some glue and then some t25 star drive screws screwed the plywood down to the framework then I started cutting the sides of the cart this stuff is that 3/4 inch pine plywood it uh it's a really light color so the pencil show up really well you finished up the holes then I took it over to the bandsaw to cut off the excess material and then round over the corners I really like this band saw I really wish I would have bought it a long time ago and not waited so long I think that's pretty safe to say for most tools that you buy but you always end up realizing you should have bought it way before you did and live and learn sometimes that's just life I threw together a quick little jig to use with my router in order to get these lines routed into the side boards to support the upper part of where the drawer is gonna go this is similar to a skill saw guide that you would use basically a little thin piece of plywood edge for the guide to run against and away you go so I have the upper portion of the drawer done and I'm gonna go ahead and use pocket holes so that I can mount it using screws from the underneath side so the screw holes will be hidden when it's all put together it's just kind of one of those things where I'm practicing so that when I build my cabinets the cabinets turned out really well this is a type of thing that you really want to plan ahead so the screw holes are all hidden so practice makes perfect and doing it this way is a little more time-consuming but overall I think it turned out a better end product so you see those pocket holes I just put together and now I've got the base in place and then I realized that the pocket holes were in the way of the casters so and if I'm gonna drill those holes and then put portion of the casters together as you'll see and then put the pocket holes in it all came together and all worked out well in the end like I said practice makes perfect and this is definitely something that I don't think I would have foreseen even if I had really thought it through but like I said it's a easy to overcome especially on the bottom of something like this where it's never going to be seen and that grabbed my grinder and cut off those bolts which were quite a bit longer than I needed but I really wasn't sure when I was down at the hardware store what size to get so I got a little bit longer and whacked him off with a grinder and we were all good to go I'm assuming the top of the Flipkart and the site I'm screwing down right now is where the sander will get mounted eventually so the position of those screws really didn't matter because I had a lot of space to work with went ahead and routed off the corners put a little cord around on those just to make it feel a little nicer when you're touching it and flipping it back and forth you know this thing's kind of more heavy towards the planer side so I don't want to catch my hand with with those sharp edges now you'll see me put on a portion of the other side and this is the permanent portion that gets done with the screws and this other piece is where the planer were getting mounted I put that seam so that the planer like you see here will be mounted on the larger piece of wood to give it more support this is all put together this way in order to get the wiring to work properly I figured this would be the easiest way to deal with it and having that extra seam kind of run right up against the edge of the planer it really didn't affect much so overall I think it turned out pretty good in doing it this way I went ahead and mounted the locking mechanisms these are window latches I liked the way these look this is like that brushed nickel finish and they work really well you can kind of feel with your thumb with that I mean look specifically this took four sets to get enough of the hardware to make this all work so that was a little bit pricey but it worked out well on the end and I feel that these would be the best lockdown mechanism for the style of cart that I built once I did that it was time to go ahead and mark out for the sander mark the holes for the drill grab the drill and drill the couple these holes I used nuts that get pounded into the back of the plywood somebody can tell me what those are called I just can't remember thought my head so we got this on here made sure we got those holes all done make sure everything was lined up I wanted to point out those I'm gonna call him a nutsert but they basically have little tines on and they get driven into the plywood that way they're like a blind and nut you don't have to have the nut held up with a backup wrench on the other side this works really well in this application where I have two things mounted to do different sides and stuff inside of the framework as you see here we're getting ready to start installing the electrical stuff at least getting the wire run to do a check fit so that we can go ahead and move on to getting the ends ready to go so pounding the nutsert sit on the other side it was just a quick thing I had to take care of real quick before we moved on to marking out the what is that three-quarter inch steel schedule 80 pipe and I went ahead and drilled the threads out of a flange so that we can go ahead and get it TIG braised in place so I'm using silicon bronze filler wire TIG braised this part because this is a casting this is cast steel of some sort so I'm sure a lot of you realize that TIG welding is not this fast I edit this and I cut out all of the parts where they're really super bright and blinding to the camera so that you hear these little pops and boom and it looks like I put a bunch of weld wire down on the split second which is not what happened I just cut out a bunch of this stuff so you guys can get an idea of how this silicon bronze went in there but you know what I mean I didn't want to blind you guys for five minutes while I dig braze this thing together now we're moving on to using some scrap hardwood flooring that I had left over from a previous project I planed off the finish and planed off the grooves that were in in order to install it on the floor then I went ahead and ripped it down to little tiny half by half pieces or maybe they were 3/4 by 3/4 I don't remember turning to edge banding as you see here kind of getting a rough idea I've never really done edge banding before so this was a lot of learning for me and I did learn a lot from it I can tell you that for sure Maranda through the planer got it down to the thickness I was looking for and we took it over there and we started getting it glued on in place I only use glue to hold this on I didn't feel that was necessary to put any kind of other fasteners or pin nails or anything into it I grabbed a bunch of these spring clamps that I had put rubber inner tubes on to use as edge band clamps saw that on a youtube video go check some of those out worked really well got to put on there got it glued up let it dry while the blue is drying on the trim I decided to go ahead and start building some little shelves on the or the side of the cabinet to store some of the tools for the planer and router in I did need to make these at a 15 degree angle if I believe correctly multiple cuts at 15 degrees D everything line up properly use the pocket holes again to kind of use some hidden fasteners then I used the table saw to cut it group for the plywood bottom just slide into all stuff I've never really done before but it turned out really well and really glad I did it definitely gives me that extra storage as you'll see once they're mounted on the side that I need for the router blade the sander spindles the sander guard and guide plates definitely worth it after the glue dried on the shelves I went ahead and lined them up where they go and drilled some holes so that I could use some screws from the inside to get a mount into the cabinet then I went ahead and grabbed in my trim router and used it to clean up the edge of the edge banding I had the bit sticking out way too far because I had never really done this before and I ended up nicking the plywood in several places once I get the stain on at the end of the video you'll see that that's pretty hidden you can't really tell but it was a mistake that I really was concerned about that I wasn't wasn't really happy with but overall it turned out okay in the end [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right we're ready to actually go ahead and the simplest thing finally using the pipe I used that three-quarter inch piping it turned out that I was able to use my pipe wrenches to adjust the snugness between those fittings because I had braised on the flanges on the end and it clamps the Flipkart top in such a way that it creates friction which assists with how fast the cart flips once the tools are installed it works really well and it was an unforeseen benefit to using the pipe the way that I did and then braising the end caps on versus having them threaded on this thing was a giant pain in the butt to get put together correctly once I got it on there and got the cord routed kind of down inside you'll see I move it over to the edge and have to slide the planer off of there and it all worked out in the end it would've been really nice to have an extra set of hands but we made it work and got to put together got to bolt it down got the screws installed and the wiring is done I was concerned that the balance was gonna be really far off but it seems to be pretty dang alright so I moved on to making the drawer never built the drawer before so this was the very first time I had done that I used a couple of half-inch scrap pieces of plywood that I had leftover from different job cut it down to size we're out of the groove for the bottom and cut the bottom board to the correct size doing a little check fit there making sure my grooves are good with a piece of scrap turns out they were went over to the pocket hole jig got that all set up this is 1/2 inch and that's about the smallest well thinnest board you can really use effectively on that pocket hole jig but we got it put together and it turned out pretty good you see I'm just throwing this thing together with some glue glue on all the joints gluing the bottom board in place not letting it float and go ahead and put in together with those pocket hole screws this thing is rock solid once it dried it was not going anywhere [Music] [Applause] I went ahead it use a recessed vase frame forward to draw which looks nice but man is it ever a pain in the rear to get that thing lined up just right and I had made some small errors along the way with measuring and cutting and some of the board's warping but we got it good and I'll tell you what that face frame board is not a perfect rectangle it is sanded and just just it ever so slightly in order to get it to fit in there just right and even then it didn't turn out as well as I would have liked but it turned out good enough that nobody but me will ever notice so this is the back of the drawer had I been thinking I would not have done an edge banding here and here I would have just made a solid piece but I wasn't thinking that far ahead so now the back of the drawer shows when it's installed so what I did was I laminated together two pieces of scrap oak hardwood floor I had I used a piece of plywood door skin to use it as a sort of a backward I'll hold this together real nice got that glued up and it smooth and we made sure we need a nice tight to check fit which I already did and it is really snug so we're just gonna put a couple beads of glue around here and push it in wipe it off and call it I am using what does this would finish Minwax this is a penetrating stain special walnut two to four I did go ahead and throw some pre stain on there the Minwax pretty stained definitely was necessary I mean you have that different species of wood I've got that oak edge banding and then I have the pine plywood definitely even everything up so that the stain took a little more even the stains a pretty dark color and probably sure to go with a little lighter color but for what it is it turned out pretty well it's finally done the hodgepodge of skills that I never got to use have been put to use so that this gave me the practice I'm hoping to utilize when I go build my shop cabinets that's really what this was about for me doing edge banding never done that before building a drawer as simple as that sounds I had never done that either overall it turned out really well got to try a lot of things I'd never done before a little overkill almond electrical but not having the quartz flop around is really the way to go in my opinion none of this was directly out of my head it wasn't any my ideas I searched YouTube in the internet and found all these different components and things and different videos and how-tos and put it all together for what I think will work the best for me the sander and planer were not an effective tool for me because they were always in the corners collecting dust I've never really got an opportunity to use them now that they're on a carp up and where I can use them I suspect that this all making so much more efficient and effective in my shop than they were in the past overall I think there's a lot to gain from the few things that I did on this video during this build by all means if you see anything you've liked please leave me a comment if you see some stuff that I might have done better by all means let me know maybe they've any questions at all please leave those down below be more than happy back to you overall I really appreciate you guys watching check me out on Instagram and Facebook there'll be links in the description hit that subscribe button that always helps me out a long run and check out the tractor series of videos in the garage build pre shoot you guys watching hope you got something out of this

Channel: Daniel Woodell

Views: 150,370

Keywords: flip top tool cart, flip top tool stand, flip top tool bench, tool stand casters, double flip top workbench, flipping workbench, double workbench, dual flip top workbench, dual flip top workstation, drawer slide workbench, full extension drawer slides, efficient workspace, efficient workshop, DIY workshop, diy workbench, flip top workbench, double flip workbench, sanding station, Free Plans, Building A Flip Top Tool Stand/Workstation, fisher's shop, planer stand, flip

Id: 03ER2vkjBLo

Length: 22min 36sec (1356 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 05 2019