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Redboy

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It's a hodgepodge...

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Today I finished the project that inspired me to take a continuing education welding class to learn how to build it. The bench was inspired by the many workbenches built around the 44" HF box.

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Thanks for the inspiration guys.
 
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droach77 said:
Just finished a mobile work bench. 6 1/2 foot bowling alley top gives me a good work surface for restoring my over 100 vintage post drills and allows me to display 3 of my patternmaker vises -- an Oliver, Emmert and a Yost.
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Very nice! Love the bowling alley top!
 
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Boxheadmr said:
Seems quiet organised.
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dittle fart around said:
Dude I want your articulated light fixture. You have a nice assortment of old shop storage.

:beer: I like it.:beer:
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PelicanPines said:
I want the drawers under the table.
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LS6 Tommy said:
:lol_hitti ****. You get first dibs... I was just going to say the same thing.

Tommy
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Blind1 said:
Yep, the perfect amount of “worked in, but I’m not eating out here, and no magazine shoots on the horizon.”
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Hah, thanks for the nice comments, fellas! It's taken awhile, but I am pretty happy with this setup. I have a real fondness for the overbuilt American shop stuff, even though most of it's overkill for what I "need." :)

If it makes you feel any better, the light isn't as handy as it looks because it's kinda busted... Some ham-handed gorilla torqued on the swivel head back in the day, and cracked the casting. :-/ I'm on the lookout for another one like this.

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You guys can have the light... I want the tubes and capacitors he has for building amps! :beer:
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I wondered if anyone would notice that! :)

That's the hobby. I build tube amps and screw around with DIY hifi stuff in my spare time.
 
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Thanks! It was new in the box and I bought it for $60 on craigslist. Some guy bought two and ended up changing his plans and needed to get rid of it. I'm thinking I'll add a 2"x2" strip on the top/rear for a backsplash.
 
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So I just got this for my dad for fathers day. Wood top looks pretty nice, I'm thinking of sealing it somehow, even though the guy said its varnished. Think it'll handle a vise? I've never had to mount one before. It'll be mostly light duty use if it gets one.

He just got a bench grinder, too. Think I could use the old "2 inch receiver mounted underneath" method for that? Would be nice to have more room on top.
 

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Looks like a pretty standard industrial workbench. We had the same kind at the shipyard I worked at. You could set a pallet of 50 amp extension cords on them. Workbenches like that support a couple thousand lbs. Shouldn't be a problem.

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awesome workbench! and yes, i'd do the receiver hack. i'd stick it on the right side and tie the receiver tube into the top and leg(s).
 
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Redboy said:
I wondered if anyone would notice that! :)

That's the hobby. I build tube amps and screw around with DIY hifi stuff in my spare time.
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Oh yeah, I noticed. Most of my builds are hybrid amps with tubes for the secondary gain stage, but I do have a quad of matched MWT 6V6GT tubes that will be used for an all tube P-P amp. I also have a Gainclone kit and a few Pass FirstWatt F5 boards from AudioSector. I'm BoilermakerFan on diyAudio, AudioKarma, and other audio sites too, but I haven't been really active on those forums in years.

Haven't built anything in over 7 years. I took a break from it because my kids were in elementary/high school and I got burned out because of some nasty mud slinging going on on a couple headphone forums (my gmail account was even hacked to steal schematics of an amp design before it went in to production). I sold off the headphone amps I had built and sold off a lot of parts kits for other amps. I owe my daughter an Aikido 24V headphone amp. My son is going into 7th grade so he wants to learn how to solder and build amps. :thumbup: I still have plenty of stuff for him to build.

I'll be getting back to the diyAudio once the basement remodel and my basement adjustable height work bench are done. I'm hoping to have the work bench done in the next 3-4 weeks.
 
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BoilermakerFan said:
Oh yeah, I noticed. Most of my builds are hybrid amps with tubes for the secondary gain stage, but I do have a quad of matched MWT 6V6GT tubes that will be used for an all tube P-P amp. I also have a Gainclone kit and a few Pass FirstWatt F5 boards from AudioSector. I'm BoilermakerFan on diyAudio, AudioKarma, and other audio sites too, but I haven't been really active on those forums in years.

Haven't built anything in over 7 years. I took a break from it because my kids were in elementary/high school and I got burned out because of some nasty mud slinging going on on a couple headphone forums (my gmail account was even hacked to steal schematics of an amp design before it went in to production). I sold off the headphone amps I had built and sold off a lot of parts kits for other amps. I owe my daughter an Aikido 24V headphone amp. My son is going into 7th grade so he wants to learn how to solder and build amps. :thumbup: I still have plenty of stuff for him to build.

I'll be getting back to the diyAudio once the basement remodel and my basement adjustable height work bench are done. I'm hoping to have the work bench done in the next 3-4 weeks.
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Oh, cool! I'm Redboy on several of those same forums. I'm one of those flea-watt single-ended tube guys... No sand in my builds! :)
 
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So I bought a Harbor Freight workbench off offer-up for $40. Navy guy that bought it and then got transferred. When I opened it, I saw it didin’t have any of the hardware, but it was only $40. Up the road from me, a guy had a garage sale. He had an old toolbox he pulled out of the scrap heap. It had SCRAP painted on the side in spray paint. It was missing a drawer and needed a little weilding done here and there, but it was $10. Here is the result.

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I'm planning on making two more drawers for the bottom. What Logo's should I use?

Cornwell
Craftsman
Proto
Knipex
Blackhawk
Williams
Blue Point

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Was in the local Rona( owned by Lowes ) the other day and see they had American built Craftsman tool boxes there. Any of you fellas seen them yet ? What do think of them ?
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danyo492 said:
Love all your Masterforce boxes. That green is really nice!
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Thanks but only the 2 on the right on wheels and the one next to the fridge are masterforce. All the other cabinets are used office furniture that I reconditioned to make look like the lovely green masterforce boxes.

In another part of the shop I have the menards green metal siding used as chair rail. And when I made the rolling work table in the foreground I had to paint that menards green as well.

All in all, I think Ray would have been happy to see all the green.
 
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