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NC Iowa | i want to build some heavy duty wood workbenches. i will need some drawers and storage underneath. needs to be heavy duty enough to mount a vise on. i am looking for either plans or pictures of some so i can get an idea for what to build. i like the idea of using a tool box bottoms for some of the drawers. there is a place here that will bend a steel top for me in whatever i want. i would rather have plans or something to go by than trying to figure it out as i go.
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Northeast Nebraska | Since you specified you are using wood, I'd just cover it with as thick of steel as your local shop can bend over the top of it. |
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| Check out garagejournal.com.In the forums there you can find lots of great ideas. |
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Embarrass WI | It would be quite a hike for you, but they are tearing down a bowling alley in the next town over. I have spoken for 3-10' sections of bowling lane, there is much more available. I think that should make a fairly sturdy workbench top. |
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central - east central Minnesota - | I built these for a guy a few yrs back . .. . needed to be heavy duty for abuse.
These are higher, so when you work on something, you don't bend over. He was taller then me, so a couple 2 ichs higher then I'd be comfortable with.
I'd also change out the shelf and either lower it or raise it. There isn't enough room underneath for 5 gal pails.
I'd likely raise it and make it a row of drawers and then have the shelf be about 4 - 6 inchs off the floor.
The legs are glued and screwed 2x4 or 2x6 . . I don't recall the other dementions. We used 2x10's for the top. It's very soild and at the time, cheap.
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Near Intersection of I-35 & I-90 Southern Mn. | I built a bar out of bowling alley wood. In this bowling alley, the first part of the alley was made with very good quality lumber. A friend got some sections further down and these were not as good (soft wood) but still suited his purposes.
I disassembled the boards and ripped them down to a consistent size. I had two sections of full width alley which I rearranged into two sections for a front bar and another narrow one for the back bar. Once I put them back together I rented a belt sander and worked them down.
The end resuls was very sturdy and quite attractive if I do so myself. Some of my friends get a little wild when they are drinking and shaking dice but the bar stood up well.
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Near Intersection of I-35 & I-90 Southern Mn. | The pictures below look very similar to what I had a local carpenter build for me in my shop. I do not have a metal top but we glued some of that plastic board on for a bench surface. I've been happy enough with the bench. I wanted to keep the per foot cost down as my layout was such that the bench is about 40' long. For my purposes I would do it this way again.
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Jackson County....... Southwest Minnesota | Here is a pic of mine
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East-Central Ontario | This is mine, 2x4 oak, elm and ash laid on edge and glued together with some 3/4 threaded rods through it, 2x8s on either side of the legs. Going to have a metal sheet on the half with the blacksmith vise. 8' long, think it weighed 800lbs empty and pre-vises.
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Between Omaha and Des Moines, 7 miles South of I80 | Just something to think about, at least on one bench; I like the steel (thick) to overlap the bench or top of a bottom tool cabinet by an inch or two minimun, so I can clamp on visegrips, or C-clamps to hold something down, on that edge.
I also like a heavy metal top to have at least one corner or edge, sticking out/protruding over the edge. There are times, you need to slide a piece, over that corner, and pound/hammer on that item. {3/8" to 1/2" flat steel top.}
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| We built a bench very similar to that is 20' long. On one side the shelf is made so there is equal space above & below. On the other side the first 5' the shelf is approx 4" off the floor so it can hold taller tools. The last five foot is open, we put an apartment size refrig & two 2 drawer filing cabinets under there. Top is covered with 1/4" steel which has a 2" overlap in front & has a 4" steel back plate. I ran airlines under the top & mounted air couplers 5' each way from the middle. I like the couplers under the top so the air hoses aren't laying on the top & in the way when using air tools. Also have electrical outlets above & below the top for easy access.
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Southwest Illinois | if you have a medium to large size shop you will want your stuff mobile. you will get tired of walking 40 feet to get something off the bench. |
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West Central Wisconsin | Made mine with 2x4 on edge and plate bent at machine stop for backsplash and front edge. Joe
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N/C Montana | These are obviously homemade cheapos but strong/stable especially if attached to the wall in a few places. 2"x12" and either 1" square tubing or scrap angle iron. Bought a couple of drawers that mount underneath nice from Nothern Tool but were expensive.
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SE Nebraska | I hope that's not a PVC air line. |
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God's Country (N.C. Ia) | Only having read the title of this post, my greatest advice(if not stated already) is put WHEELS under it! If you can make a mental picture of it, my bro built two rolling benches that measure roughly, 4ft x 8ft with a chest type tool box(boughten) on one end. Mounted a nice vise on the opposite end. Simple and work great! |
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s nd | My bench must be about the same as the the wood one framed above and have an overhang on the front. If you go that route, try a heavy angle iron under the overhang where you put the vice and transfer some of the pressure fron the top of bench to the front of the framework. My vertical piece on the front is at least an 2x6 and maybe 2x8. |
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East Central Indiana | Tim,
I would latch on to as much of those lanes as you could store. Around here they sell for 10 to 20 dollars a foot. More for the longer lanes. We got 8 twenty footers out of an Ohio bowling alley a few years ago. Eight very strong guys could barely get it on a GN trailer!
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Embarrass WI | He's getting $10/ft for them. I can only use so much, otherwise I'd have taken it all-but no decent place to store. |
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Central Illinois | This is the only picture in my phone of the two I put wheels on for my boss and the coat rack was all stuff laying around the farm. the one on the left is a 2x6 top with tongue and groove flooring boards on top and 4x4 legs and 2x4 shelf on bottom. There is so much weight on the shelf one person can barely get it started rolling. The one on the right is a cabinet base out of a kitchen all built solid as could be. The parts washer was put in the sink cutout and is very handy to have there. and the switch on the front of the bench controls the washer pump
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building shop work bench. i need ideas or plans, pics..
