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I work as a Mechanic at a major bottler and we go through stainless like crazy with repairs, projects, installs, mods etc. I come in the other day and there is this 62" tall, 3"x3"x 1/4" thick stand with half inch thick legs in the metal dumpster. I ask my boss if i can have it and he says I dont care take it. Whipped up a bracket and voila! finally have a place to mount my portable saw. Check it out. this is about $300-350 worth of steel!!
The table is 57" high so there is no stooping over when cutting something out. nice!
I plan on anchoring it to the floor and to a wall and figuring out an on/off switch but this sure beats having it zip tied to the leg of my workbench on the floor.

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I didnt even know they carried those, cheap too!
would really beat pluggin/unpluggin it in every time
 
NICE! And VERY Resourceful! :thumbup: I love seeing what people come up with to get around tight, workingstiff budgets. :D I'm mulling over some similar projects myself :)
 
I usually clamp mine in the vise and use a roll of tape to wedge the trigger on...i know its not the safest thing,:( but I still use mine like a regular bandsaw too, so I cant dedicate it to vertical cutting. But an awesome score none the less...congrats on the dumpster diving!:p
 
Cool find. If not the foot switch, how about household type electrical outlet and light switch, two outlet box and an extension cord. Wire it up so that the light switch operates the outlet. Mount it into the pole under the saw. Plug the saw into the outlet (keep the zip tie on trigger), plug box into power, flip switch to turn on saw. You might even have most of the stuff in your shop.
 
Got the footswitch , the momentary one and it works beautiffuly! Going to rig up a bright lamp next
 
Railrider1920,
If you use that type of controlled outlet box setup, try this improvement ( you can retrofit an existing one easily,too).
Remove the jumper from the hot side of the outlet, to make the outlet a split circuit. Then control one with the switch and make the other live all the time.
This way you can plug the lamp into the live one and the saw/tool into the controlled one. The switch turns the tool on , but the light stays on all the time.
 
On my setup, I use a piece of velcro wrap instead of an electrical tie - that way it's easy to rip off if I need to for some reason. Probably won't ever need to though.
 
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