It’s nice to have the ability to park your desk noticed in a single spot and fix a everlasting outfeed desk to it so the noticed is at all times prepared for motion. In my tight store area, nonetheless, every little thing needs to be on wheels, together with the desk noticed. So I sized the legs on my workbench to permit the benchtop to do double-duty as an outfeed desk. That setup has labored OK, however each time I want to make use of the bench as an outfeed desk, I’ve to clear nearly every little thing off of it, and I can’t stack workpieces there as I take advantage of the noticed.
This new Rockler folding desk body is the answer. It helps you to grasp an outfeed desk (you make the tabletop) off the again of your noticed and consists of two adjustable legs that pivot right down to assist the desk. Whenever you want further area within the store, or you must transfer the noticed, you fold the legs up into the body and fold the desk down, the place it merely hangs out of the best way.
When you have a mud hose popping out of the again of your noticed, it helps to connect a flex hose or a 90° elbow to it to maintain the hose out of the best way and permit the desk to fold down freely. In any other case, you’ll must detach the hose while you fold down the desk.
The body attaches to any desk noticed with a Biesemeyer-style T-square fence, however it gained’t work with rip fences that safe on the again (which is commonest on small job-site saws). The body’s thick, sturdy attachment brackets have intelligent jack bolts inbuilt. These brackets allow you to set the peak of the outfeed desk only a hair under the noticed desk and lock in that relationship completely.
To verify the tabletop gained’t drag on the ground when folded down, you must restrict its size by the peak of your noticed. However I ended up with 44 in. of outfeed assist behind the blade of my SawStop; that’s loads for many jobs.
You’ll must retract the legs fully as a way to fold them out of the best way and fold down the desk, so that you lose their top setting while you do. Nevertheless it’s straightforward to reset the legs to the precise top while you put the desk again into use.
At $100, this heavy-duty folding outfeed equipment is a discount.
—Asa Christiana, editor at massive
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