I'm finding myself in a situation that I can't imagine is just my own. I have a variety of workholding between my Haas machining center and manual mill. It amounts to a total of 18 different vises, including Chicks in 4 and 6" sizes, three Kurt 3600s and two standard 6" Kurts.
The problem is where to store the ones that aren't in use? Right now, they are in piles on my work table. That's not good for them and it's not convenient. To change the machine's setup, I have to stack & unstack, while moving each vise to the machine, by hand.
What do others do to keep their vises organized and mobile? What I want is a low-profile cart, maybe 15" wide and 18-24" deep, with shelves about 5" apart in height. It would allow you to store a pair of vises on each shelf, maybe a total of 4-5 shelves high so the cart could be parked under a work table and have a low CG.
I can't be the first person to want something like this. What do other shops do when they change setups in a machine? Yeah, I could make my own but by the time I buy all the material and decent casters, it'll be into the hundreds of dollars and I'll still have to build it and paint it.
Does anybody know of some really slick solution? Some beefy, industrial cart that has shelves?