3/8" workbench with drawers

[Renze]

Slow progress: RAL 6011 machine green applied to the framework. Monday its time to get a new can of paint and do the drawers, and hoist the bench itself back to its place.

 

[Renze]

Paint is dry, drawer cabinets put in place... now its time to think where to put what, and throw away whatever is left over

 

[newbury]

Thanks for the post. I have a workbench in the shop that is the same way. Need to make it so I can reach the back, mine it wood and I am taking it apart to move so it will get done in the process. Ed

Most of my work benches are to wide to comfortably make use of the far side:




Because they are based on 8' x 42" wide pallet racking.

However I'm putting recycled cabinets and shelving on the backs of the one I want to "narrow" down.

Good job, it came out nice. I've also found that it is almost impossible to have an empty bench or table top. I try to make an effort to create a place for everything, but my wife doesn't grasp the concept at all. As soon as I clean it up, she uses that spot for dog food, toilet paper, or whatever she just bought at the store!!!

I had the same problem 40 years ago. Back then I only had a 15'x15' space and one 30x60 table. Quickly figured out that if I put large boxes on my workspaces (the table and tablesaw) that LOOKED like they contained "project oriented" stuff she would leave it alone and put stuff away where it belonged. She caught me one time stacking a bunch of empty boxes so I could lay out a project, but I wiggled my way out of it. It's best if you can accumulate a bunch of triple thick cardboard boxes that you can nest like russian nesting dolls.

Now with 5,500 sq feet of shops and over 100 linear feet of worksurface 42" wide I don't worry. Plus it's over 50 yards from the house so she rarely unloads anything in the shops .

Paint is dry, drawer cabinets put in place... now its time to think where to put what, and throw away whatever is left over

Looking good!

What is this concept

throw away whatever is left over

left over is what is needed for the project you don't know about yet!

 

[Steave]

Paint is dry, drawer cabinets put in place... now its time to think where to put what, and throw away whatever is left over

Left over stuff is not junk; it's good for future use.

 

[Renze]

Left over stuff is not junk; it's good for future use.

I have about 30 years worth of odd sized sockets, like 21, 18, 23mm ones. When your ratchet is broken, and socket 13 and 17 and 19 missing (most used sizes in Metric) its cheaper to buy a new socket ratchet set. You end up with lots of never used sizes if you never throw away some...

The same goes for old paint, a few years ago i opened my paint cans, and could throw away two third of them because they dried in the can, over one or more decades.

 

[Steave]

I know what you mean about the paint. Had a disaster with a metal 5 gallon bucket of concrete epoxy paint, floor grey. It had about 4 1/2 gallons (17 Liters) I had set the bucket under an outside work table and sort of forgot about it. One day picked it up by the handle of course and the bottom come off, was rusted all the way around and the weight from me picking it up blub, blub, blub. What wasn't dried up probably half went on the ground. Shovel time, man what a mess but lesson learned. Reminds me I need to go check the paint shelves in my shop and discard all the dried up cans.

Work table looks good. So far I have enough room to walk around 2 of my tables and one is on wheels so the depth don't bother me much.

 

[Renze]

I had a can of paint with the rim of the lid rusted all around. i could pry the lid off with a screwdriver but wonder if it will ever seal again. I threw away about 1/3 of my paint cans. When i couldnt hear a slush when shaking them, i opened them, and most of them were indeed stiff as a corpse.