On 2/18/18 7:52 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Sunday, February 18, 2018 at 7:24:12 PM UTC-5, -MIKE- wrote:
On 2/18/18 5:41 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 17:27:38 -0600, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet
wrote:

On 2/18/2018 9:52 AM, dpb wrote:
On 2/17/2018 6:33 PM, Leon wrote:
A week or so back I posted pictures of the workbench/assembly table
that I was building and finally today I am just about finished.Â* I'm
debating whether to add 2 attachment bolts to hold the two units
together.

I elected to not drill the 32,548 holes in the top.... My Festool work
table has enough.Â* ;~)

The legs. With material storage on the wings that stick out.
...

I had wondered the purpose of the wings in the construction photos
earlier...

Forgot to address in my precious response.

The top wing, if you will notice, extends out a few inches further than
the lower wings.

It extends past the side of the work surface so that I can have a place
to put my track with parallel guides. It is normally an issue finding a
place to put it when working with multiple sheets of plywood.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lcb112...posted-public/

See? The fishing works. ;-)

I like it. A lot! How do you deal with cutting the top of the bench?

I built my cutting bench on a solid-core door with a sheet of 3/4" MDF
just sitting on top, held in place by side rails 1/4" shy of the
surface. I'm not short on space so portability wasn't important. It's
on casters but it never moves more than a foot or two.


Flat surface doors make great make-shift work surfaces.
I've been known to buy hollow core cheapies for on-site work benches.
Dead flat, light, cheap.


I've picked up a few hollow core door over the years 'cuz I kept hearing
that they are "Dead flat, light, cheap". Maybe it's the doors I've tried
'cuz I only get 2 out of 3 and dead flat ain't one of them.

This style:

https://i.imgur.com/kwcSS1q.jpg

The lower face of the main one in the picture is convex, the other one (on
the right) is concave, as shown he

https://i.imgur.com/HzfZ1G3.jpg

I've tossed 2 or 3 more that were also not flat.

On the flip side, last week I ran across a local place on Offer-Up that has
dozens of salvaged workbenches of all shapes and sizes. Some workbench tops
without legs also. The guy was tossing around prices of $50 for tops, up to
$150 for complete benches. I wasn't dressed to dig around and crawl through
a salvage warehouse and I didn't have a straightedge with me anyway, but I'll
be going back.


Maybe it's a regional thing and I'm sure it varies by lot, but the ones
I've gotten have pretty darn nice.
Also, I guess "dead flat" is relative to the context and applications.
I don't mean dead flat like a granite machinists table.
I mean dead flat for portable work surfaces when compared to a couple
2x4s sitting across sawhorses with a sheet of whatever on top.


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