My 1000 LB bench

[therealjakeg]

Got the bench done. Works awesome and I can move it with a finger. Enjoy.




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[D45]

Ok.....

 

[Bcom]

Enjoy what? Uh?

 

[therealjakeg]

3/4” top with hydraulic jacks on both sides and wheels to let it down. Edge of the table was cut on a water jet to get a square edge and radius the corners slightly. 4’x8’ weighing in at just over 1000 lbs with the frame. Thanks for looking.

Jake




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[tarbellb]

Nice. Plug detail is cool, but what I really want is that magplate holder.

 

[1/2 Cup]

therealjakeg,

That is one real nice work bench build.

Thank you for sharing..

 

[apollo11]

Now that is heavy duty!

 

[m32825]

Nice work, very manly. What will you use it for?

 

[HCRCnow]

[emoji106]

 

[fordkid88]

Jealous

 

[pajibson]

Nice

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[LXCam]

Saaweeet!

 

[Flatheadpopup]

I can't see a single thing that I don't like about that bench. Well done sir.

 

[kunkernator]

I love the idea for jacking the table up. What brand casters did you use? I priced some out with Caster Concepts a while back, but they are way too expensive, so i decided not to do the project....

 

[Bears Fan]

Awesome table! You had me with the thread title, I had to check it out I was impressed with those magnets holding that top up

 

[Scout3918]

very nice

 

[tarmy]

Nice work, very manly. What will you use it for?

Watercoloring is my guess..that or origami...

Nice table...hold down holes coming?

 

[tool_scrounge]

3/4” top with hydraulic jacks on both sides and wheels to let it down. Edge of the table was cut on a water jet to get a square edge and radius the corners slightly. 4’x8’ weighing in at just over 1000 lbs with the frame. Thanks for looking.

Jake

Nice table. I might recommend being very careful on what you roll the wheels over. Flat concrete is probably fine. But if you hit any bumps the threaded rod to caster interface may break.

What you have constructed is very similar in size and weight to a vibration isolation table. In that world the tables are not moved often, but on initial installation they may be moved from the loading dock thru the office building to the final destination. One of my suppliers had a similar (if not more conservative) design and they had no less than three redesigns to deal with breaking the casters off. There is nothing less fun than having a customer looking over shoulder as you hacksaw off a bent/broken caster assy on their $150K tool.

I found the most robust solution was to mount the caster fixed and raise/lower the feet. The reason is the vertical adjust mechanism (screw feet) only see static loads. Unlike the casters which see static and dynamic loads as you move it. The example swivel foot is rated for 7400 lbs. But deploying it is not as fast as your two hydraulic jack solution.

 

[anndel]

Nice table!

 

[Wesley B]

Looks great, a lot simpler than most of these I've seen. What are the specs of the tubing you used for the frame?

 

[JMLangford]

Nice looking table!....

I too was thinking like tool_scrounge, that the rods on the casters looked a bit anemic for such a robust table....


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