Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.

[Radio Tech]

Looks dangerous 

Many years ago I build a few radio repeaters that were rack mount.  I used this same material he made his bench out of.  It held the receiver, transmitter, controller, power supply and amplifiers. Racks were about 5 feet tall. No worries, rock solid when you add a few cross braces.

[mswhin63]

Looks dangerous 

These were a common bench design in my apprenticeship days. With small corner struts they are very solid.

[SeanB]

Had quite a few of the steel shelves buckle, they are not really rated to hold 200kg of paper which is what they were loaded with, files that got consolidated into archive binders and they were added to till the whole shelf space was solid paper.

Also do not like being used as a ladder to reach the top shelf, though if you stack 2 shelf units right on each other so the lower adds extra support it does well, and those little corner diagonals are not going to hold up under a 300kg load, you need the solid sheet backing or side braces instead. Otherwise they will handle a load up to the point where the leg ends punch through the vinyl floor tiling from the load.

Got quite a lot of it though, must put some together if I need more storage space.

[VK5RC]

I use similar slotted angle for my bench but put some MDF sheet on each end for bracing and a few straps across the back. The MDF one end has the mains outlets, the other end has 12V (13. power board (lots of Andersons).
Metal framing has the advantage that it doesn't sag after years of static load like timber does (unless timber is very lightly loaded).

[ITman496]

I tidied up a little.  Ignore all the stuff under the bench, thats where all my tidying got shoved.



and the other area, where the bigger machinery lives.

[fivefish]

Very nice ITMan.
What's the plotter used for?

[FireFlower]

Neat

[ITman496]

The plotter is my friend's and they use it to print out big 36" full color posters of stuff.  It's pretty damn awesome!

This is the other side of my room, which was the first pictures, and those posters hung up were made on that printer.

[jmsc_02]

That attic is a dream... Congratulations.

News for my ugly beast bench: i've upgraded it putting a cross angle and now my bench is a solid rock. Total upgrade cost: 4€.

[ITman496]

Thank you! It's actually a tractor shed on the side of my friend's house.  I wish it was my own house..  Have to drive to the other half of my damn workshop.  But it used to have no walls, no ceiling, no door, and dirt floors.  Now it's fully insulated, powered, heated, cooled.  And full of spiders.   

[AF6LJ]

Very nice ITMan.

I agree Very Cool

[ITman496]

thank you!

[AlfBaz]

And full of spiders.   

Spiders are cool, they don't eat much

[Vgkid]

And full of spiders.   

I like spiders    .

[ITman496]

Not when they crawl out from under your cnc machine and are like 2 inches long..

[AF6LJ]

Not when they crawl out from under your cnc machine and are like 2 inches long..

Those are Texas Size spiders. 

[sotos]

Not when they crawl out from under your cnc machine and are like 2 inches long..

At least you have company and also they are protecting you from flies, mosquitoes and other disturbing insects.

[SeanB]

Only 2 inches, those are nice size then, they make pretty good pets at that size or bigger. Bite can be painful, but they generally are not too poisonous at that size. Black widows however are much smaller and a lot less likeable. There will be no mice with them that size, aside from the munched remains.

[AlfBaz]

... aside from the munched remains.

I did say they don't eat much

[SeanB]

They like birds as well, leaving only a feathered skin and bones behind after they suck out all the liquid inside they have digested with the injected saliva.

[GreyWoolfe]

Not when they crawl out from under your cnc machine and are like 2 inches long..

Those are Texas Size spiders. 

Come to Florida and see our 3 inch flying cockroaches (Palmetto Bugs).

[ITman496]

I will admit that I have not seen any other insects other then spiders...  I guess they are doing their job.  Anything is better then god damn house centipedes.  Anything.  Even spiders.

[rolycat]

I will admit that I have not seen any other insects other then spiders...  I guess they are doing their job.  Anything is better then god damn house centipedes.  Anything.  Even spiders.

I didn't realise spiders were so badass until one went toe to toe with a large centipede in my bathroom (That's a lot of toes (Assuming spiders and centipedes have toes (OK, probably not))).

It was a few years ago, and after an epic battle the spider won. Since then house spiders have been welcomed, particularly after the swallowing them in your sleep thing was revealed to be an urban myth.

[ez24]

I will admit that I have not seen any other insects other then spiders...  I guess they are doing their job.  Anything is better then god damn house centipedes.  Anything.  Even spiders.

I didn't realise spiders were so badass until one went toe to toe with a large centipede in my bathroom (That's a lot of toes (Assuming spiders and centipedes have toes (OK, probably not))).

It was a few years ago, and after an epic battle the spider won. Since then house spiders have been welcomed, particularly after the swallowing them in your sleep thing was revealed to be an urban myth.

I love how these posts go.   I also welcome spiders.  I just have to clean up after them once in awhile (clean up their cob webs without hurting them).  I do kill Black Widows if I come across them because they kill their husbands (ha ha) and I am afraid they will hurt my dogs.  The only thing I cannot get over is killing them when they crawl on me in my sleep.  Then I always feel bad about it.  I am trying to train myself not to do this but wake up and take them outside.  Now I feel bad over the last two I killed 

I wished more people would appreciate spiders and not kill them.   

[ITman496]

There are a handfull of named spiders in my workshop that I leave in place but when they start coming in everywhere and crawling over my machinery thats usually where I draw the line.  They can stay near the doors and holes and ceiling and corners all they want, just leave me alone..