On 04/10/2019 21:24, Bob La Londe wrote:
This might be metalworking or wood working.Â* I'm seriously thinking
about removing the work benches from along the back wall in my shop
and replacing them with a single continuous monolithic steel plate top
work bench.Â* Beveled, welded, and ground flat at each joint.Â* Apx 54'
long. Ok, that part is definitely metalworking.

Here is the part I am undecided about.Â* I want drawers from the bench
top to about 3 inches above the floor from end to end.Â* No. not a 54'
long drawer.Â* LOL.Â* Banks of drawers, to eliminate all my roll away
tool boxes and sort a lot of tools with their related parts.Â* ie: Snap
rings with snap ring tools, etc...

Appearance is a non issue for me.Â* Strength and speed of assembly
probably rank 1 & 2 for importance with cost coming in at number
three. Not all drawers would need to be super strong of course, but I
would like to make them all the same.Â* Right now I am thinking about
wood drawers or folded/welded sheet metal drawers.Â* I have a decent
finger brake and various metal cutting processes in my shop.Â* I also
have all the wood working tools I could need for making wood drawers.Â*
No matter which way I go I'd want to make them all the same way.

I looked at roll away bottom cabinets as an option under the bench,
but they are either way to light duty, don't have drawer
configurations that I like, or way to expensive.

Have a look at office equipment filing cabinets as they come in various
draw depths and heights. I have about 7, 4 of which fit under my bench
nicely for storing various tool categories and the other 3 about the
same height form a work storage surface and I store various items in the
drawers. I have another smaller cabinet which has drawers about 1" deep
and 10" wide which I store things like taps, dies, reamers, drills, and
many other items in. All where acquired free as they were being chucked
out and I was in the right place at the right time.