"Bob La Londe" wrote in message news:snr7ls$aqj$1@gioia.aioe.org...

My current dream project is a 56(ish) foot long monolithic steel top
bench along the back wall of my shop with bench top to floor drawers
with 6 foot long wings about every 8 feet with 6 foot deep drawers for
long stock and long tools. I have the steel for the top, and some of
the steel tube.

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That's not much different from the benches in several labs I've worked in.
At Segway a rep from MSC came in periodically to make sure the hardware
drawers under the long bench in the machine shop remained fully stocked.

Long open benches tended to acquire a population of small bench-mount
equipment that has to be far enough apart to not interfere with turning,
cutting, grinding, drilling or tapping long stock, and soon the open space
isn't that long any more. That's where I got my preference for mounting it
in pairs on carts that could be temporarily clamped to the edge of the
bench, then stored compactly together.

On 11/27/2021 11:33 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
> "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:snr7ls$aqj$1@gioia.aioe.org...
>
> My current dream project is a 56(ish) foot long monolithic steel top
> bench along the back wall of my shop with bench top to floor drawers
> with 6 foot long wings about every 8 feet with 6 foot deep drawers for
> long stock and long tools.  I have the steel for the top, and some of
> the steel tube.
>
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>
> That's not much different from the benches in several labs I've worked
> in. At Segway a rep from MSC came in periodically to make sure the
> hardware drawers under the long bench in the machine shop remained fully
> stocked.
>
> Long open benches tended to acquire a population of small bench-mount
> equipment that has to be far enough apart to not interfere with turning,
> cutting, grinding, drilling or tapping long stock, and soon the open
> space isn't that long any more. That's where I got my preference for
> mounting it in pairs on carts that could be temporarily clamped to the
> edge of the bench, then stored compactly together.
>

My plan is to break it up into sections dedicated (mostly) to a
particular type of work. Grinding, injecting, welding, general
assembly, etc. I plan for some bays to be covered in small pieces of
equipment as that's the way they will be used every day. I even plan
for wings on the wings for things like the 6 ton arbor press and mid
size drill press. Of course plans/mice/men/spouse/kids/etc

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