Margherita just resigned..... hooray!!!
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Margherita just resigned..... hooray!!!
Hooray, congrats! Were they surprised?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bloodyaussie
Feeling a bit pleased with myself. It’s been a while since I did any woodwork & have spent much of the past week knocking up a new workbench for the new shed, having decided that step one of fitting out the shed needs to be the establishment of the workshop section. Walking between old & new sheds multiple times to do just about anything because tools/machinery are spread between the two was wearing very thin. So first a new workbench, then some power & lights for the workshop are the current agenda.
This was my ‘detailed’ plan for the bench on a piece of scrap paper. Mostly in my head following the usual ‘Cuppa’s making it up as you go along’ model. :)
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And this was the outcome
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6 metres long. Frame & legs all 90 x 45 ‘merchant grade’ pine studs - except for leg where vice will fit - a section of 100 x 100 verandah post I kept when replacing one which was rotted out at both ends. Bench tops are yellow tongue flooring with additional crossbracing underneath. Wall backboard & shelf is 12mm ply attached to 90 x 45 timber.
And this is my new favourite tool. (The whole thing is only screwed together (used around 700 screws!) to allow for dismantling should I ever want to move it elsewhere. Solid as!)
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finished cleaning off the snatch strap in the washing machine....... tis very clean now
@ cuppa you having lock up doors for your electrical tools
Possibly TD. Will decide once higher budgetary priorities are taken care of.
Having been accustomed to getting timber for next to nothing back on the farm I’m still in a state of shock over the cost of timber. Believe it or not there is over $600 of materials in that bench!
@cuppa
how do you find the flooring board as a bench top? i need to make a new work bench and im undecided what i want to make the top out of
Too early to tell as I only finished building it today & haven’t used it for anything more than a ’shelf’ yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by lhurley
It’s a lot heavier than ply & quite rigid on it’s own, but I added additional cross members underneath it which I screwed the top to, to make it as rigid & ‘bounce free’ as I could. It’s also perfectly flat & warp free. I think it will work well. The top surface has some sort of wax impregnation to give it a degree of waterproofing (designed to sit out in the elements for up to 3 months whilst a house is being built. It feels like quite a hard surface which I think will be quite durable, certainly a lot more so than ordinary chipboard. I plan to use it as is & think it will cope well but if I find after a while that the surface does deteriorate it would be easy enough to cover it.
Cost wise - if money were no object I’d probably choose 150mm thick seasoned hardwood strips laminated together & covered with metal or laminex sheet but I didn’t want to take out a mortgage! The yellow tongue was $42 for sheets 3600 x 900 x 19mm - 2 per bench with enough left over to make a couple of shelves elsewhere & a couple of doors for the ‘cupboard’ I’ve built to house the water pump. You can get the same flooring in thicker section too - Red tongue =22mm & Blue Tongue =25mm but it would be *very* heavy to work with. We (wife & I) ripped the length of our 19mm sheets on my old Triton saw bench & I’m really not sure we’d have managed it any heavier.
Catch can, dawes and needle valve on there way many thanks mudski
I've made a few work benches over the years the best one was 50 x 50 x 6 angle iron. It had a lower lockable section a big under top drawerQuote:
Originally Posted by lhurley
the top I inverted the angle and filled with 25mm timber x 2 then clamped and welded a sheet of 3mm steel on top, for electrical work
a piece of rubber matting up one end worked a treat. Wish I had it now, The one I made for home is made from 50 x 50 x2 rhs with 3mm top
solid as.