From now on all future plans will be in inches only. This set me back a day but didn’t waste too much lumber. My biggest mistake was reading 1’5″ and thinking it was 15″. For the most part, the bench build went OK. Woodworking is not my forte and I was building something of my own design. I decided on two 5′ triplite strips with 20 receptacles each. I only have 15A feeding the room and I don’t expect to be able to run a lot simultaneously, but at least I don’t have to keep swapping power cords on a small power strip. The other thing I wanted was a lot of power receptacles.
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Further, I wanted a stool that would be such that I could work sitting but fairly low so when working on small pieces I can get up really close.
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For me, that required the bench be at about belly-button level. Besides being able to store bins under the bench, I wanted the height to allow me to easily work standing. I already had one akro-mils storage cabinet but I figured I would need more storage so I added another two.
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Besides the test equipment, I would also be putting my old ‘lab’ pc in which I use to drive the 3D printer. So I included that and another shelf above that for bulky part storage. The workbenches I’ve seen have a shelf for test equipment.
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After plenty of trial and error I ended up with this: I’ve used Sketchup8 for designing some other wood projects, so I decided to use it to design the work bench. I’m going to have to re-store at least some of the junk I pulled out of this room, so I made sure I could put bins and banker boxes under the bench. Dave pointed out that his home workbench has lots of room under it for bins.
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While working on the room, I looked at some books and a lot of websites trying to decide how to design a workbench and I tried to decide what I would want to place on the bench to make sure it would be as useful as possible. Probably not a problem to the non-OCD crowd, but I don’t like it (no one that has seen the floor has mentioned my obvious flaws though). For some reason I constantly had trouble getting the first plank of each row exactly where it needed to be so they don’t butt up against each other as tightly as I would like. If you are a little off it is going to be bad as the adhesive will get ripped off the plank if you try to separate them. The other problem is you get only one chance to align the planks. I had to go back and pull up some of the planks and heat the adhesive with a hair blower to get it to stick. Even though I applied it EXACTLY as recommended the adhesive wasn’t perfect. If I had it to do again, I probably wouldn’t use this flooring material. Left to sit for about 30 secs and then wiped off, I saw no damage. One test I made on the test sample was to put acetone on it since that is the worst chemical I seem to work with. The edges have an adhesive so once installed the entire floor ‘floats’ that is it is not attached to the floor below or the walls. This is a vinyl flooring material installed in planks. I choose Trafficmaster Allure Light Bamboo. However, when redoing the floor I decided I wanted a hard floor that was light colored so I could find dropped parts quickly.
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I’ve ‘redone’ enough of this house that much of this project was a no brainer. Finally I was able to get everything out of the junk room and begin. I moved on to the furnace room where I had to stop because I found the cinder blocks had some water damage and I would have to wait until spring to fix.Įarlier this summer I started work again and finished the furnace room. So I started refinishing some of the other utility rooms in my basement so I could reorganize all of the messes down there.īy last fall I had finished my ‘server’ room where I kept my various servers, and other stuff I could not get rid of.
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Some stuff I could toss, but much of it needed to stay. However, to build a bench in this room was going to require cleaning out the junk room first. I have always wanted a decent electronics workbench and since I’ve been regularly working on electronic projects the past couple of years I figured it was time to get serious. Last year when I got my 3D printer I had no place to use it, so I shoehorned it into this room. And so for the next 9 years it has been filled with junk. When I moved into this house 9 years ago, one room in the basement became the ‘junk room’ where stuff I just didn’t know what to do with was stored after I moved.