How to Store a Ryobi 10″ Table Saw on the Wall

Ryobi 10″ Table Saw, constantly in my way on my workbench

I purchased a 10″ Ryobi Table Saw
on Craigslist a while back and it has been sitting on my workbench, getting in the way ever since.  Space is tight in my little work shop so I have to figure out ways to store things out of the way.  I wrestled a bunch with where on earth to store my little table saw and finally figured out a good solution–hang it on the wall, and I had a perfect place for it by the back door.  One nice thing is that the holes on the base of the saw are 16″ on center (when measured length-wise, or in the direction of the cut) and low-and-behold, the studs on my exterior wall are too!

The holes on the base are 16″ on center

Step 1: Find the studs.  I used a reclaimed hard disk magnet wrapped in electrical tape.  You can read here how to harvest these guys from hard drives on my blog posting here.  The reason you can use a magnet to find a stud is because they will stick to the heads of the screws they used to hang the drywall.

Hard Drive magnet stuck to the drywall screw head–there’s a stud!

Step 2: Use a level to mark where the screws go.  I like things to be straight.

Using a level to mark horizontal lines across my stud markings

Step 3: Drive two 3″ drywall screws straight into the wall.  Leave enough of the screw sticking out so that the head sticks out of the base of the table saw when it is flush with the wall (I forgot to measure, so just play around with it).

3″ drywall screws in my screw caddy I got at Menards

Two 3″ drywall Screws to hang my Ryobi 10″ table saw

Step 4: Hang up your Ryobi 10″ Table Saw.  Finally, it’s up out of the way.

Ryobi 10″ Table Saw Mounted on the Wall

Here you can see how the screws fit into the holes on the table saw’s base:

The screw sticks out of the wall just far enough so that the base sits down over the head of the screw

Now I need to move my alarm system’s motion sensor that I just covered up.