The Megabench

[waltmcq]

I had a 16' bench in my old garage, I used about 5 feet of it. The rest was piled with junk. I'm good a piling. My new shop right now has one about 4' and another 6', more than enough for me.
Good for you for being able to keep your clean

 

[srmofo]

I was thinking for being in a basement it was a great little workspace. I like the top for a light duty area like that.

Its funny how all the attitudes changed when the builder showed up. I will admit that the "mega" title was a bit misleading

 

[drof]

I like it because you built it yourself and it fits your needs. I go to a lot of car shows and hear guys walk from car to car trying to find flaws. Usually they don't own a hot rod and drive a crappy foreign car. I much prefer to hear I did it than I bought it. Just my opinion.

 

[ed_v]

Its funny how all the attitudes changed when the builder showed up. I will admit that the "mega" title was a bit misleading

Reading through this thread, those were my exact thoughts.

Ed

 

[garageking]

i like it because its still clean and workable

 

[matty d]

With all the comments, 'a little droopy', 'i like the shelves', 'everyone like it a little different' etc. etc. it sounds sort of like the comments in the 'Lets see your pinups' thread....

 

[e-tek]

Thanks for the interest in my bench. I can't believe a silly photo set of my basement turned into a mini viral DIY-blog "thing."

This thread is cracking me up. A monkey pooping? Fail? Mega-lame? Yawn? You folks are what I love about the internet. It's a bench built for me, by me. That makes it perfect.


Jim

The resposnes where TOTALLY aimed at Ryan - for posting up a regular (decent) bench and calling it mega. Bad on Ryan.

Thanks, milkovich.

No worries. My ego is perfectly intact. Jim

Oh good, I was worried....

Its funny how all the attitudes changed when the builder showed up

Not really, just shows people care about offending someone!

But really, this is Ryan's goof up. As a Web MASTER, he should be the first to know that if you draw attention to something on the net, it's gonna get commented on - draw attention in the wrong way and you get negative attention. He should know better. Bit I'd also bet he hasn't thought about it since!!

 

[ovilla]

It's decent for what it is but is not mega. When I saw MEGA I thought I was going to see some steel monster that was moved in to a garage with a forklift.

 

[ishiboo]

Looks like a very nice bench for what he's using it for, I have some hobbies too that don't require a bigass bench. Mega has different meanings for different people.

To not disappoint on this board, you should build a 32'x4' bench out of 6" solid cold rolled steel, with a vice so big you can put a medium duty truck in to work on (Wilton, of course), piped with 2" thick wall welded stainless tube for air supply, with no less than one 50A welder outlet every six inches and 800A service for the bench. Plus not even the fasteners can be made outside the US. You'd still get **** for painting it since it was too big to powdercoat

 

[RedVise]

Gotta love the picture of the Dogs playing cards. The bulldog is still cheatin'...

Nice bench!

Brian L.