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.
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Breaking up the sheets into bulkhead pieces on the sliding table saw
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Much easier to attach the drawer guides before installing the bulkheads.
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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.
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