At 08:04 AM 9/20/2004, Lawrence Lile wrote:

>Dave, 
>
>I am afraid my sense of style isn't going to be as good as yours. Industrial Clutter is my style.  I am building my new bench as follows:
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>Two of those red 30" tall Automotive toolboxes, with wheels, the kind with the one inch tall, 27 inch wide drawers, will sit on either side, with a solid core 30" X 6'8" oak door bolted to the top.  This is my "poor man's antistatic top".  A 36" door is too wide, my skinny little arms can't quite reach the back of it without an uncomfortable stretch.

I've been using 36" doors, because I usually devote the back half-ish to equipment, in stackers above the door.  I have the hardware bench as a "L" out into the room, so I can walk to the back, and service the medusa-land of cables.


>I may also take Herbert's suggestion and make one of the first shelves sloped for holding documentation.  This always tends to get buried rightaway when I start a project.  

Indeed, the schematics are usually as large as the available workspace.

>I am unsure as to whether to have a dedicated place for a computer.  My development computer is a laptop, and does not take up much benchtop space.  I haven't desided if this is going to be an "ELL" shaped workstation or just a bench along a wall.  
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>There will be an extra light fixture right above the bench plus a magnifier light.  

A very good idea.  Those shoplights are (for once) ideally suited to their intended task. The hardware bench has one directly above, and I have a swing-arm flourescent that I can bring in for extra.  If I get really desperate, I pull in the fiber illuminator, but the lamp prices tend to minimize my usage on that one.

I lust after the sort of lamp that dentists use. (probably until I see those lamp prices!)

  

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