worntorn
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The wall mounted workbench in the old part of the shop is 68' long plus there is an 8' square assembly table. One day last week I came in with an item that needed repair and could not find sufficient space to set it down anywhere on the workbenches. Much of the clutter is motorcycle related. I decided to make up some full extension drawers ti fit under a 20' section of the bench.
These don't need to be pretty, but they do need to be strong, so 1/2" plywood is ideal. The paintable Crezone sign painter plywood is particularly high grade, with 2 extra lams over standard. At close to $40 per sheet x12 sheets, this would be about $500. Full extension ballbearing drawer guides are nice, but this added another $500. So a grand for materials plus at 2 days or more labour.
At 58years old I had to ask myself if it was really worth it, or is it another illogical project like those Norton Commando engine Performance upgrades :mrgreen:
On Thursday I was feeling no older than 53, so I decided to get on with it. Craigslist yielded some good fir core crezone plywood for 12 bucks a sheet, including paint. I also found 22 sets of new Accuride full extension 100 lb drawer slides for $200. So cost was now about $350 for material.
First off was to rip up some material to attach bulkheads to the concrete floor. A dado cut into the centre works well for this.
Breaking up the sheets into bulkhead pieces on the sliding table saw
Much easier to attach the drawer guides before installing the bulkheads.
End of day 1, bulkheads all in. Both the cat and I were tired at this point. I was pretty sore afterward from kneeling down and working under that bench, even though that part was only 3 hours or so. Everything is fitted to spacers as this hardware does not have much tolerance built in and I want to make all 21 drawers identical, otherwise it is too slow. Better to spend extra time at this stage and get things positioned correctly.
These don't need to be pretty, but they do need to be strong, so 1/2" plywood is ideal. The paintable Crezone sign painter plywood is particularly high grade, with 2 extra lams over standard. At close to $40 per sheet x12 sheets, this would be about $500. Full extension ballbearing drawer guides are nice, but this added another $500. So a grand for materials plus at 2 days or more labour.
At 58years old I had to ask myself if it was really worth it, or is it another illogical project like those Norton Commando engine Performance upgrades :mrgreen:
On Thursday I was feeling no older than 53, so I decided to get on with it. Craigslist yielded some good fir core crezone plywood for 12 bucks a sheet, including paint. I also found 22 sets of new Accuride full extension 100 lb drawer slides for $200. So cost was now about $350 for material.
First off was to rip up some material to attach bulkheads to the concrete floor. A dado cut into the centre works well for this.
Breaking up the sheets into bulkhead pieces on the sliding table saw
Much easier to attach the drawer guides before installing the bulkheads.
End of day 1, bulkheads all in. Both the cat and I were tired at this point. I was pretty sore afterward from kneeling down and working under that bench, even though that part was only 3 hours or so. Everything is fitted to spacers as this hardware does not have much tolerance built in and I want to make all 21 drawers identical, otherwise it is too slow. Better to spend extra time at this stage and get things positioned correctly.
