PROJECTS COMPLETED USING A TOOL TROLLEY
Examples of diverse applications where Tool Trolleys
made a difficult job easier
Decorative Concrete - Checkerboard Floor
A customer from Portland Oregon purchased our new HDPE Circular Saw Trolley and 18 feet of rail for his Decorative Concrete business. He purchased the trolley in order to complete a checkerboard pattern that had to be cut in his customer's garage floor. A week later we received an email with a picture of the finished floor and his comment that "the system worked flawlessly. as you can see from the photo it came out perfect and the customer is happy."
The customer also commented on a benefit he wasn't expecting. He hooked a vacuum onto the discharge nozzle on his saw and the result of having a full HDPE carriage is that the concrete dust has only one place to go and that is up the zero-clearance blade opening and into the vacuum resulting in a nearly dustless operation. A pleasant change from normal operations and a real time and money saver too!
Tool Trolley Workbench
Build your own Tool Trolley workbench. The ultimate accessory to go with the Tool Trolleys. This bench is indispensable. Expandable to over 8-feet in length with built-in bar clamps functioning as a clamping bench. Parallel jaw vice opens to 18 inches to support your work pieces on a vertical plane and extendable workbench legs enable adjusting the height of the workbench to 48" for machining a work piece on its end. Click HERE to request a copy of our complimentary Tool Trolley DVD showing the detail construction of the workbench among other Tool Trolley projects, construction methods and techniques.
Go to the workbench Web Page to see the construction details of the Tool Trolley workbench which was built entirely with Tool Trolleys
Black Cherry Coffee Table
The cherry lumber for this coffee table was cut by a young woman who had never before operated a circular saw. She ripped the straight edges and sized the lumber to final dimension, which demonstrates the ease and safe operation of a circular saw when using a Circular Saw Trolley.
Railing Repair
Thanks for this tool!
I read the review from Woodworkers Journal eZine, then my local Rockler had it on sale, too easy.
I built an extension to my deck that was designed by holding some string until my wife thought things looked right. As a result it had no right angles. The cap of the handrail was made of 2x6's to match the existing. Because of the odd angles, where the new met the old, a gap occurred. A contractor buddy said he would have ripped a 12 foot 2x8 to mate things up. Kind of intimidating until yesterday.
(I thought while I was doing this that it should have been photo documented, but it wasn't, sorry)
I took the old cap off and traced it on top of my new board. I extended the angle on the mating end then drew the cut line. All this is done on a work table with a 2x4 frame top. I set the old 2x6 next to the new 2x8 on the table and screwed them to the table from below w/3" deck screws. With my saw in the circular saw trolley and the trolley on the rail I placed the raised blade on the drawn cut line at the wide end, then clamped the rail to the 2x6. Moved down to the end of the rail, and clamped it after putting the blade on the drawn line. Made several trial passes down the length to find rough spots and make sure the blade stayed on the drawn line.
Cut approximately 7 feet then stopped the saw. Repositioned the rail using the same technique of placing the raised blade on the drawn line. Made test passes to find rough spots, put blade back in original cut, started it up and continued.
VERY SWEET.
Looking forward to getting a trolley for my router.
Thanks
Frank Mackell
Indianapolis, IN
Heart pine Raised Panel Doors
Two 30-inch x 8-foot raised panel doors with lights made out of reclaimed Southern Heart pine for St. Mary Help of Christian Church in Aiken, SC
Click on Church Doors web page where you can see the detailed construction of the doors. Click on Videos to go to the Videos Web Page to see the video of the construction process using Tool Trolleys.
The Finished Product!
Construction of a Red Oak Headboard, Bed Frame and Lamp Stand
Click on Headboard to go to the web page depicting the detailed construction of the headboard. Click VIDEOS in the navigation bar on the left to see the video of the cutting of the dado on the ends of the bed rails and How-To-Make a Sliding Dovetail Joint.
Construction method -- Sliding Dovetail
Narrow Lamp Stand to fit between the bed and a door frame
Red oak frame and center support legs for better distribution of load on the floor. Fluted Headboard. Flutes made with Router Trolley
Bed Rails clamped side-by-side and held in workbench vice. Trolley Shuttle added to end of boards for routing of recesses for the bed rail brackets .
Routing Dado on the ends of the bed rails using Router Trolley
A pair of finished dados
The Cherry Inlaid on Birch Trash Receptacle
The Router Trolley made cutting the recesses easy for the cherry inlaid.
Kitchen Cabinets with slide-out shelves . Circular Saw Trolley enabled ripping exactly down the center of sheets of birch plywood that made the cabinet sides a full 24-inches deep
