Mount Maslow on work bench with cables anchored to wall?

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We’d like to mount the Maslow on the concrete floor or out makerspace. However, we’d have to move a heavy workbench out of the way every time we wanted to use it. What if we mounted the cables onto the walls at the height of the workbench and then put a spoil board on the workbench and ran the Maslow on top of that? It would be like a horizontal system, but elevated about four feet. The spoil board, workpiece, and router would sit on the workbench at the same vertical height of the cable anchor points. We’d just have to lay the spoil board on the workbench each time, then hook up the cables, etc. Of course, the spoil board would be firmly attached to the heavy workbench when in use. Not to debate whether its easier to move the workbench, just asking would this work?

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CmMaslow4808 wrote:

We’d like to mount the Maslow on the concrete floor or out makerspace.
However, we’d have to move a heavy workbench out of the way every time we
wanted to use it. What if we mounted the cables onto the walls at the height
of the workbench and then put a spoil board on the workbench and ran the
Maslow on top of that? It would be like a horizontal system, but elevated
about four feet. The spoil board, workpiece, and router would sit on the
workbench at the same vertical height of the cable anchor points. We’d just
have to lay the spoil board on the workbench each time, then hook up the
cables, etc. Of course, the spoil board would be firmly attached to the heavy
workbench when in use. Not to debate whether its easier to move the workbench,
just asking would this work?

that will work.

the maslow will use the plane of your workbench to define ‘level’ (not
perpendicular to gravity) so for your Z offsets, you will need to enter the
height offset between our anchors when attached to the wall to the anchors when
they are retracted.

I expect this will be much easier than moving the workbench.

David Lang

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Thanks! It seemed like it would, just wanted to check with the Maslow community first

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This is pretty much what I did, and it is working well. I also added 1 metre aluminium extrusions on each mount point to extend belts and reduce the amount of belt extended. This also requires a modification to your yaml file

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