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Workbench, height, timber size etc
j45on:
Dont forget to take in to account storage when building your bench or knee space for sitting down
I wish I had planed my benches a bit better :doh:
Gazz292:
The worktop will be a 20 odd year old piece of kitchen worktop, very heavy and solid (the new stuff i got to replace it weighs a quarter of the old stuff) plus a sturdy frame,
i think i'll bolt it to the wall anyways, stuff the noise that gets transmitted through, better to have a very rigid bench i think.
deffo planning lots of storage underneath, drawers, cupboards, a pull out slidey thing to use as a doodle board.... i mean planning table, all made to hopefully keep as much swarf out as i can,
i just need to find some reasonably priced 2 x 4's now, and get making sawdust.
bigmini:
--- Quote from: foozer on February 24, 2011, 09:36:38 PM ---Using a wall as a back bench support is ???. Whatever noise is generated upon the bench will travel to the wall, if the Bride happens to be on the other side. . . Hitting upon the vice will also travel to the wall and cause the hanging items to bounce about.
A free standing bench if possible eliminates the reverberating sound of "What are you doing in there!!! You gonna wake the baby"
4 X 6 might be a bit of overkill. Did a 12 footer 3 foot deep 2 X 4's with 2 X 6 legs, 3/4 ply top covered by 3/16 steel top. Holds whatever I can put on it.
Robert
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My father lined the cavity of his workshop wall with egg cartons to try to kill noise transmitted to the house.
The fire brigade were not impressed... ::)
Gazz292:
I've had me lathe for 2 days now, and have only just got it out of the boot of the car, it's now in the middle of the living room floor, wonder how long i can get away with that :whip:
Spent the last couple of days sorting the garage out, clearing all the rubbish out, then wire brushing the walls as the last person who owned this house had painted them yellow with what i presume is proper maisonary paint, as it's stuck to the bricks really well, but then painted over with white emulsion, which flakes off like a bad case of dandruff.
So 3 coats of white wall paint later, i have the walls looking brighter, if i had the money i'd have covered the walls with 50mm slabs of kingspan insulation backed plaster board, but i dont, so painted bricks it is, makes it easier to put heavy things on the walls tho, even if the bricks are horrible, 3 different types, one splits the second the drill touches it, another type dosent seem to be bonded to the cement, and a grey brick with some metal content, sparks when drilling and is extremely hard, takes a while with the sds drill to get a hole in those.
The garage door will get a layer of kingspan type insulation, but not untill i can tow the trailer with me car, as no way to get a couple of 8x6 sheets in a smart car... tho i will be getting offcuts, but dont fancy a jigsaw of 50 pieces to cover the door.
Then got some paint on the floor, and it looks a million times better than it ever has, i had to scrape up ferret keeping magazined that were glued to the floor with what looks like epoxy resin, last bloke bred fettets here, and had a gun dog that lived in the garage :scratch:
Anyhoo, the photo attatched is from the side door, showing about half the length of the garage, the metal working tools bench will be going on the right hand wall, it' about 8 foot long, not 12 as i guestimated it, i must have been using the willy measrument scale on me tape (6 inches shown is really 3 inches ::)
The left hand wall will have another bench. and that'll have me woodworking machines on it, a couple of new power circuits run through an emergancy stop button, with slave emergancy stop buttons near the tools, i'll also run the air line along the front of the bench with connectors near the machines,
but before any of that, i have to wait till the floor pain dries, go round the walls and touch up where i caught them with the roller, move me tool chest, table saw, bench on wheels etc onto the painted side, and paint the rest of the floor, and if i have any left over, i'll paint the 2 little rooms i have at the end of the garage, one used to the the bog and other a coal hole, make very handy storage rooms for tools, the compressor, and atm wood, but hopefully i'll soon have bits of metal added to that room,
But for now i need to rest, as i have done way too much and overdone it as usual, so now my back is killing me, my arms feel like thay have been run over, and my legs are fuzzy from pins and needles,
foozer:
Dark floor hides sin and everything else that gets dropped
Be a home away from home in no time
Robert
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