I recently came into a very rugged table top for a garage work-bench. It’s 10ft wide by 4 feet deep plywood top, built on 2″x9″ boards that span the entire perimeter and enforced by at least 5 runners in the middle. It’s really an awesome find with a lot of potential.
As luck would have it, I also lucked into a fully functional work bench about a week before that is 8’x4′, so I don’t want another non-movable unit. (Seriously… The things people will just throw away, especially in this economy…..)
My goals for this 2nd table are this: 1) collapsible legs. 2) Adjustable legs. 3) Heavy-Duty locking casters on the bottom so it can be pushed around with ease. 4) a panel in the back that would allow for A/C, D/C and USB inputs when plugged into the wall.
3 & 4 are easy. 3 is especially easy if I just decide on a specific height and bolt in some 4x4s and put some casters on the bottom.
I’d really like to be able to fold this up and store it in the corner when I’m not using it. It’s a 2 1/2 car garage with only one car parked in it now, but that room can be swallowed up pretty quick and a 2nd permanent 4’x10′ table really dominates the free space available, and wouldn’t even be doable with a 2nd car. When the table is on it’s side and folded up, I would have more Casters on the side so it could easily be rolled into a corner.
Obviously the problem with 1&2 is the weight of the table top, and how to build this in such a way where one person would be able to tilt it on its side without sacrificing the integrity of the legs every single time. I’m also open to any easier to assemble pulley-type system ideas from the overhead rafters to help accomplish this goal. I want to avoid not only breaking the legs, but avoid having to ask my neighbor to come over and give me a hand every time i want to adjust the height/use/or store the table.
Anybody have any ideas to ponder?
Also, I apologize if a similar topic has already been brought up that I’m not aware about. Maybe this question isn’t as unique as I thought it might be. I didn’t even feel that this particular forum was a good fit for my question, but I didn’t find one that I felt was a better fit.
THANKS!
Source: DoItYourself.com