Another Drill Press Cabinet

[gee-dub]

Rex built a cool cabinet to enhance his floor standing DP here. If you're like me I look at everybody's stuff and then steal, render, modify all the ideas that work best for my particular setup.  I made a cabinet a while back and thought I would share it for yet more brain fodder.

My DP stands on a ready-crete filled ballast (welcome to California) which in turn stands in a mobile base.  I have moved the DP exactly never in the last 9 years so I built the cabinet with the plan to bolt the DP to the floor, add casters to the cabinet that would straddle that bolted down base and be able to roll the cabinet out of the way as required.  No casters yet ;-)

The bottom of my DP always looked like this.

I had some shop grade ply that was leftover from something else and was in my way so it became my material (talk about random choice).

Cut it up and dado'd and rabbeted some joinery into it.

My design is actually three boxes that get joined. 

The rear side boxes have shelf pegs for adjustment.

Dados, rabbets and plywood make a pretty rigid box.

The brawer boxes are also plywood and are just glue and pocket-holed together.

I make some pulls.

And it starts to come together.

It currently sets on the ballast base.  Once the DP is bolted to the floor the casters I mount will straddle the base.

So there's another take on the same general idea.  Hope Rex's and my threads provide some food for thought if / when you are thinking about making your own.

[..Kev]

Thanks for sharing!  I've been toying with the idea..

[Rex Edgar]

GD,. Nice cabinet. You started with a plan, I built the base plate and then worked from the bottom up. You know the name "Ben Gunn", from classic literature? Your avatar remind me of the character from 'Treasure Island'.

It makes use of otherwise wasted space.

[gee-dub]

2 hours ago, Lester Burnham said:

Let's see something you've built that doesn't look frakkin' awesome, yeah?

 Oh, I got 'em 

[Cliff]

This is on my list to do as well so it's good to see options. I'll do the opposite of @gee-dub, steal from everyone and make worse version.  

Actually have a set of plans I bought for it. 

[drzaius]

That's a project that I need to tackle. But my DP is on a mobile base & I want the cabinet to move as one with the DP. I also want to easily roll the cabinet away from the drill. So I need to come up with a mobile base that sits on the mobile DP base. Haven't really taken the time to figure that out.

[Lasersc]

Thank you so much gee-dub for the reply and help. I hope my mobile base will be here tomorrow, so that I can kick this project off. All the nice ideas and different aspects are greatly appreciated. It just broadens the thought process when ideas come in. Thank you again, to you, the creators, all all the behind the scene hard work.