Originally Posted by
Rodney
This base was intended to be only a base, it's good for machines intended for display or machines fitted with a hand crank. If you want a lid you would need to make the base longer on the wheel side to clear the wheel. That would give you the extra compartment for the electrical box that you see on many vintage machines.
That's a great job you did! I think it was 2 summers ago now, I made some boxes based on the dimensions of the existing case bottoms. I just used plywood offcuts and I think it was a ripped 2x4 for where the hinges mounted. I don't throw anything out, so somewhere around here I'll have written dimensions of the original cases if anyone wants them. For the bottom, I ended up putting a piece of plywood on, then using the belt sander to "round" the edges a little so that the bottom didn't transition as noticeably from the vertical pieces as it otherwise would have. It was a hack job, but for a gal who's never taken shop or anything, and learns by the seat of her pants, I was thrilled when the bases didn't self destruct in 2 years and counting.
