Grinder Stand On The Cheap?

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Daniel Fairly Knives

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I'm trying to find a stand for my Ameribrade grinder, can I get away with one of those import stands for now? Maybe fill it with concrete or the likes?

Solid budget stand ideas!

I thought I'd rig something up but I need to get to work asap.
 
I use a harbor freight stand. I can't say that I'm completely happy with it, but it works. And it cost like 25$ or something like that...
 
A piece of 3”-4” pipe or square channel with a plate welded on top and an old truck rim for a base is used in many shops and barns across the country for such things.

Mine is just mounted to my bench.
 
Mine is out of aluminum extrusion. Adjustable for height. Similar to 80/20. But if I couldn't get that, I'd use wood. Nothing wrong with that.
 
^The stand is good for cleanup purposes, easy to sweep around

I decided to just build 2 workbenches as I'm in a hurry to get back to full time knifemaking. I'll likely build some sort of stand once I get some tools back together. I wound up paying the lumber yard to cut the wood and had to buy another cordless drill to put everything together. Supplies come in tomorrow.

I had the Ameribrade stand, not sure if it was the stand or the grinder or both likely but it was as smooth as can be... a world away from the kmg/bench combo I had before. The stand has so much mass and a huge footprint.
 
I built a pretty serviceable pedestal/stand out of some 5" square tube and some heavy angle that I purchased at scrap price from a local fab shop with a drop yard. I bolted it to my shop floor with some concrete anchors. I welded the angle brackets to the tube, but they could just as well be bolted.
 
Most of my stands are home made, any wide base tripod stand should work. I don't like mounting my machines permanently to the floor because I like to be able to move my machines outside on nice days to work sometimes.
 
I don’t have pictures yet but last weekend I mounted leveling casters on my main bench so I can roll it outside. It has my 2x72 plus all attachments, disc sander, vise, knife vise, drill press, buffer, knife steel and surface plate on it. I figure loaded out it has to easily be over 1000 pounds and I can push it around with one hand. The casters are ratchet type so when you want it solid you can raise it off the wheels onto the pads. I put 6 - 600 pound rated casters on it.
 
ScarFoot said:
I don’t have pictures yet but last weekend I mounted leveling casters on my main bench so I can roll it outside. It has my 2x72 plus all attachments, disc sander, vise, knife vise, drill press, buffer, knife steel and surface plate on it. I figure loaded out it has to easily be over 1000 pounds and I can push it around with one hand. The casters are ratchet type so when you want it solid you can raise it off the wheels onto the pads. I put 6 - 600 pound rated casters on it.
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Almost all my machines are mounted on their own stand so can wheel them outside on nice days and work.
 
Scott Hanson said:
Almost all my machines are mounted on their own stand so can wheel them outside on nice days and work.
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Unless it’s raining, the weather here rarely prevents outside work. I figured I could take advantage of better light and keep as much dust out of the shop as possible that way.
 
Get a heavy duty WEN shop cart. They are big and rated at 500 pounds. Put the vacuum and dust collector underneath, and bolt the grinder and several other tools on the top. Amazon has them. You can get a cheaper one, but it isn't nearly as heavy duty.

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