[MakeLV] DIY tables for the space

[David Smith]

Yes, pallet wood is very rough.  It is cheap, but often warped and when we
did this once, the finished product lacked stability.  For the labor
involved, I'd rather get some plans from Family Handyman or the like and
build some simple benches out of new wood.  Because of the rough floors, it
would be very wise to equip any benches built with T-nuts and leveling
bolts in the bottom of each leg.

Dave

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Josiah Ritchie <josiah at josiahritchie.com>wrote:

> He acquired some very nice pallets with some quality wood. The first
> project in the space was similar to that and the problem was that most of
> the wood we acquired was rough. There result is in the corner where the a/c
> room meets the hallway wall. It is covered in stuff. Anyway, the lesson is,
> get pallets with good wood on them or they'll just splinter and we ended up
> using a sawzall to chop through the nails between the boards rather than
> pry the boards up because that caused the boards to split and splinter
> resulting in little useful wood.
>
> JSR/
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Willy Weik <mobius0001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So while at the space tonight I noticed a lack of work surfaces and was
>> brainstorming some methods to try and fix that on the cheap.
>>
>> Did some googling and came across this.
>>
>>
>> http://www.survivefrance.com/profiles/blogs/making-a-table-from-discarded-pallets
>>
>> If we could get access a stack of pallets we could probably make a few
>> benches out of them.
>>
>> Anyone know where to get pallets?
>>
>>    -Will W
>>
>>
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