The Woodshop Shed

Planer Cart

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


I made this planer cart for my Dewalt 725 planer based on Lockwatcher's groundbreaking blog tutorial. I tried to copy the dimensions exactly and it worked out very well. It is a good design and a solid cart. The design lends itself to so many different applications. I'm working on a lawn equipment cart to store my gas weed eater and leaf blower.I ran into a problem when installing the casters on my planer cart. I bought mine at Lowes. They seem like good quality but the mounting plate was 3” by 3 and 3/4” for 5-inch casters. This resulted in one of the holes having no wood to attach to since the bottom of the legs had an area for attachment that was only 3 inches square. Even downsizing from 5 to 3-inch casters would have resulted in the same size plate. My workaround for this was to add small cleats on the inside corners and glue and clamp them in place as shown in the two photos above. As you can see clamping was a bit problematic but I was able to git-er-done.I think another solution would be to extend the cleats for the bottom shelf into the corners and make them thicker so they are flush with the bottom rail. This would provide the necessary attachment structure for the attachment of the mounting plate. Next time should be easier.

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