[MakeLV] DIY tables for the space

[Rob Roschewsk]

All of my benches at home are typically 3'x8' ..... longer is always fine
... but 36" at waist height is maximum reach for me ... I usually use the
1x8 waste as a back stop to keep things rolling off the back ....

I typically build a 3'x8' frame out of 2x8s .... cross-braced at the
corners .... and lay a 3x8 piece of particle board on top ... legs are
either 2x8s or 4x4s .... I've varied that element every time ... I think I
like the 2x8s the best ....

I'll shoot a few picks when I go home.

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:55 PM, William Weik <wweik at lutron.com> wrote:

> How big should we build a bench? Anyone have a dimensions in mind?****
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> makelehighvalley-bounces at makelehighvalley.com] *On Behalf Of *Rob
> Roschewsk
> *Sent:* Friday, October 19, 2012 1:53 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [MakeLV] DIY tables for the space****
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> Yep ... use the pallet wood to make bird houses ..... ****
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> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:35 PM, David Smith <
> david at davincisciencecenter.org> wrote:****
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> 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.
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> Dave****
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> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Josiah Ritchie <josiah at josiahritchie.com>
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> 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.****
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> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Willy Weik <mobius0001 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.****
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> Did some googling and came across this.
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> http://www.survivefrance.com/profiles/blogs/making-a-table-from-discarded-pallets
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> If we could get access a stack of pallets we could probably make a few
> benches out of them.****
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> Anyone know where to get pallets?****
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