On 10/4/2019 4:24 PM, 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.
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.

For 54' of drawers, I'd take neither of the routes you named. I'd go
straight to an industrial source of pre-fabricated drawers and buy what I
need and then adapt the framework of the bench to suit. Maybe in the case
of some that need to be extra strong I might do some reinforcement but no
more than absolutely necessary. Metal drawer boxes with decent slides are
already plenty strong for most uses.