NakeDiesel
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I've finally gotten around to building a real workbench for the 20' section of wall where I have my whiteboards. The bench is 20' long by 29" wide and 40" tall, will have 3 harbor freight 44" tool boxes, clamp storage, drill storage, air tool storage, air outlets on top and a hose reel and additional shelves for other storage and some pull out drawers.
This is the design I put together in Google Sketchup to figure out how I wanted to lay out the workbench
Cutting out the pieces for the "A" frames
Getting the "A" frames put together, built 8 of them total
I used 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" angle for the upper rail to tie the "A" frames together
All of the "A" frames welded in place
Laying out the tool box support/braces for the first toolbox section
The first between section lower drawer sliders
Where the drawer goes, I wanted a place to store all my drills and like devices in holsters. So I took some 4" pvc pipe and notched them out and mounted them with self tapping screws
Drill holsters done, mounted and painted
The second cubby hole, I wanted for air tools, so I used another set of slides and some angle iron and some 3" x 1/4 ******* and cut the ******* in half and welded them onto the angle
Painting some more parts of the work bench
In the air tool section I also wanted to add a 50' retractable air hose that will plumb into my main air lines
The two end sections, I wanted just open storage with shelves. I have some left over diamond plate that I will cut to make the two shelves and attach via self tapping screws
Painting it all
Notice the bars on this end, those are for storing all my c clamps and welding clamps and whatever else I can hang off of it.
This brings us to today in the build. Today I set one end up on a moving dolly and the other end up on a floor jack and rolled it to it's new home area
Then my son and I spent a few hours disassembling and inserting all three tool boxes into the frame from the top with my cherry picker
The top is going to be made out of 2 layers of 3/4 inch plywood glued then screwed in from underneath on the angle iron pieces
I'm hoping to get it finished up tomorrow, I need to pick up some 1 1/2" wood screws and some 1/4" t's to plumb the air lines for the hose reel and the two coiled air lines I want on the top side of the work bench.
I still need to make one more drawer out of angle iron for the air tool section so i can store my jack stands there.
This is the design I put together in Google Sketchup to figure out how I wanted to lay out the workbench
Cutting out the pieces for the "A" frames
Getting the "A" frames put together, built 8 of them total
I used 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" angle for the upper rail to tie the "A" frames together
All of the "A" frames welded in place
Laying out the tool box support/braces for the first toolbox section
The first between section lower drawer sliders
Where the drawer goes, I wanted a place to store all my drills and like devices in holsters. So I took some 4" pvc pipe and notched them out and mounted them with self tapping screws
Drill holsters done, mounted and painted
The second cubby hole, I wanted for air tools, so I used another set of slides and some angle iron and some 3" x 1/4 ******* and cut the ******* in half and welded them onto the angle
Painting some more parts of the work bench
In the air tool section I also wanted to add a 50' retractable air hose that will plumb into my main air lines
The two end sections, I wanted just open storage with shelves. I have some left over diamond plate that I will cut to make the two shelves and attach via self tapping screws
Painting it all
Notice the bars on this end, those are for storing all my c clamps and welding clamps and whatever else I can hang off of it.
This brings us to today in the build. Today I set one end up on a moving dolly and the other end up on a floor jack and rolled it to it's new home area
Then my son and I spent a few hours disassembling and inserting all three tool boxes into the frame from the top with my cherry picker
The top is going to be made out of 2 layers of 3/4 inch plywood glued then screwed in from underneath on the angle iron pieces
I'm hoping to get it finished up tomorrow, I need to pick up some 1 1/2" wood screws and some 1/4" t's to plumb the air lines for the hose reel and the two coiled air lines I want on the top side of the work bench.
I still need to make one more drawer out of angle iron for the air tool section so i can store my jack stands there.
