"David Billington" wrote in message ...

On 04/10/2019 21:24, Bob La Londe wrote:
This might be metalworking or wood working. 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. Beveled, welded, and ground flat at each joint. Apx 54' long.
Ok, that part is definitely metalworking.

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

Appearance is a non issue for me. 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. Right now I am thinking about wood drawers or
folded/welded sheet metal drawers. I have a decent finger brake and
various metal cutting processes in my shop. I also have all the wood
working tools I could need for making wood drawers. 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.

Along those lines I used to work about 10 miles from the State of Maryland
surplus store and got sent up there once to get some used filing cabinets
for our offices. They had many, many filing cabinets for sale at cheap
prices, both 2 and 4 drawer models. I just had to pick through them looking
for the nicest ones, but I didn't have to find matching units. Some
universities also have surplus stores if you live near a large campus.
Maybe alternate 2 or 3 regular drawer units that you build with 1 or 2
filing cabinets for deep drawers, then more regular drawers. Throw in a
full height knee hole every so often for roll-around equipment or a
workstation.

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Regards,
Carl Ijames