Over time moving and piling spacer rings and cutter heads on the spindle moulder had become so annoying that I tried to find some solution to improve that process. Unfortunately and due to the chronic lack of room in my workshop I couldn't reach the initial objective which was to store pre-piled tools and quickly remove and replace them on the spindle. Thus I still need to go through the tiresome piling process but much more easily and quickly. The whole project is founded on a virtual wood shaft that holds spacers and cutter heads before sitting on the shaft and locking the stack with the allen key.

After setting the spindle moulder fence on the table top, the virtual shaft laid in the left hand side of the fence moves and sits on a particular base close to the ring spacers. The recess in that base accommodates the wooden pin that helps the spindle to keep at standstill and the underneath dual bevel allows the whole stack to be easy picked up. Given the virtual spindle height equals the protruding steel shaft, it just remains to pile rings and tools as needed. As regard complex stacks I drew and printed specific sheets describing spacers and cutter heads and the way of piling.

Gliding the forefinger underneath and the thumb above allows for the pinch of the whole stack. The wood pin of the virtual shaft needs now to go into the top threaded hole of the metal spindle and rings and cutters slide along to fill the whole spindle height. The T bushing covers the stack and the allen key laid in the right hand side of the fence helps to lock the top screw. As instance the finger joint document details the handling.

I couldn't go further because of the required room but you might built the base drawn below aiming to accommodate as many virtual spindles as you wish.