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building table
So how wide would you make an 8' long building table? Since my planned workshop has an 8' depth, I do no have room for more that a 4' width.
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ORIGINAL: randy10926 So how wide would you make an 8' long building table? Since my planned workshop has an 8' depth, I do no have room for more that a 4' width. tap .... tap .... tap ..... Cees |
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Are you putting the table in the center of the room with access to both (long) sides?
I sacrificed some size of my work bench (went with 32") to accommodate more storage area and tables for sub-assemblies. My plane is also a 1.10 size, but really not much narrower than a 2M (tail feathers?) I did not vote since I haven't gone up to 2M yet. |
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Randy,
Can you tell us the dimensions of the workshop. Do not tell me it is 4 x 8 because than you have to work with the door open !!! Cees Edit: workshop limited edition plan lay out. Give me the dimensions and we all make a lay-out and design. Edit 2 the basic lay-out of Randy, find in another thread. |
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Although I have 4 work areas in my shop my primary building table is the size of a standard 24" wide hollow core door. I have bigger but they always hold too uch junk and get cluttered too easily. The existing "building table" is framed up with 2x12 lumber and I attach an actual hollow core door to the top depending on what I need....fuselage jig....wing jig....foam cutter....or just a flat surface.
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Randy,
I did make a scaled lay-out, do not know if this was the latest version. I think there is not enough room for 8 x 4, what do you think? There is 1 foot left to walk. Cees |
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It is nice to be able to walk around the plane during alignment periods.... I have one in the middle of the shop and then a bench along a one wall and small work stations with power tools...
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Rev 2,
Give away some room of the shelves, 8 x 1.5 and 6 x 1.5 The worktable with max dimensions 4 x 8 and you can change the position, against the workbench, (glider wings?) against the shelve (see picture) for normal working, and central to walk around. Cees Edit: picture with worktable locations |
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workshop is 8 by 20 feet.
Thanks for the scale work. it should help |
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My vote for 4' wide is of course dependent on having room to walk around the table on all sides. My worktop is a 4 X 8' sheet of tempered glass that I got from a store display warehouse sale for 100 bucks. It is laid on a sheet of 3/4 in plywood which sits on two three drawer cabinets that I got from home depot. This provides drawer space and support. The glass surface is easy to clean and can be scraped if (when) you drop paint or glue on it. you can tape to it also. You can't push pins into it! <G> Four feet is too wide for working from one side, but I like having the extra width so that I can keep my current project on the "main side" and do something on the other side also.
It is also nice to be able to sit a plane across the table for alignment etc. Size will ultimately be dictated by your workspace availability, and I've found that I adapt to whatever I have available. G |
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http://www.samsclub.com/sams/search/...equestid=22042
This is what I use and love it. I did cut the legs down about 6" so I could work standing or sitting in a taller roll chair. [img]http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/8889/workbench.jpg Uploaded with ImageShack.us[/img] |
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ORIGINAL: randy10926 workshop is 8 by 20 feet. Thanks for the scale work. it should help Your wish is our command. I was thinking about starting with the living room now, so you can take your time for the workshop. After your decision about the workshop layout we start with a lighting plan for it, than you can think about our proposal for the living room and select the furnitures together with Mastertech. RCU to make your live easy! Cees Edit: Randy, I did centralize the shelves in the "shelve corner" so you are always in front of the right shelve, (think about Murphy) |
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My building table is a 7 1/2 ft x 2 1/2 ft x 3inch hollow core "thing" The neighbor who was going to throw it out before giving it to me told me it came from the receptionists counter at some commercial building. My building area is about 20' x 8' and since I do not have room to walk around, the work table comes out to a couple of saw horses in the driveway when needed.
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Well the vote is almost split between 4feet or 3feet. I am leaning toward 3 feet to make sure I can walk around it.
I really like the Rev 2 layout. I had never though of moving things around that way. Making one shelf only 6 feet sounds good. That is simply cutting 2 feet off the 2x4 shelves before they get screwed to the frame and since the saw arrived that is doable. As for the living room, I am already using the dining room as my current work area. Since it is just my son and me no one complains about eating in front of the football game. The living room is for my TV and recliner. The 'MAN' cave is my son's Red Skins heaven with his 60 inch TV. The stands for the two sets of shelves are done. All that is needed is to clear some floor space and start screwing the 2x4 shelves in place. Each shelf uses four 2x4s. The workbench is nearing completion. All that is left is the bench top. A hardwood top would be nice as one on the uses will be my reloading presses. This puts fair amount of stress on the bench tops. It ended up being 27 inches by 8 feet. This a stock picture and I plan on replacing it with mine later. The 2x4basics kit is the four legs and all the screws to put it together |
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My vote is for 3 feet. I was going to make mine 4 X 8 just so I wouldn't have to do a full-length cut on a sheet of plywood, but when I put the sheet where I was going to build the table I realized 4 feet is just too darn wide...
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Randy,
Will we do your garden? No that’s a joke! Success with completing the workshop, the width of the table 3 or 4 feet wide will be both oké I think, it’s whatever you like best and can get. 3 ½ ?. And what did I learn, the difference between width and wide, see my first post. Cees |
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Garden. I could use a garden. You want to come over to cut down the trees and pull the stumps out of the back yard?
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ORIGINAL: randy10926 Well the vote is almost split between 4feet or 3feet. I am leaning toward 3 feet to make sure I can walk around it. I really like the Rev 2 layout. I had never though of moving things around that way. Making one shelf only 6 feet sounds good. That is simply cutting 2 feet off the 2x4 shelves before they get screwed to the frame and since the saw arrived that is doable. As for the living room, I am already using the dining room as my current work area. Since it is just my son and me no one complains about eating in front of the football game. The living room is for my TV and recliner. The 'MAN' cave is my son's Red Skins heaven with his 60 inch TV. The stands for the two sets of shelves are done. All that is needed is to clear some floor space and start screwing the 2x4 shelves in place. Each shelf uses four 2x4s. The workbench is nearing completion. All that is left is the bench top. A hardwood top would be nice as one on the uses will be my reloading presses. This puts fair amount of stress on the bench tops. It ended up being 27 inches by 8 feet. This a stock picture and I plan on replacing it with mine later. The 2x4basics kit is the four legs and all the screws to put it together |
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if nothing else I can put a 357 though my Focus.
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