I recently decided to make a workbench for my garage so that I actually had somewhere to put my Mini Mill, and can also hold my Mellor Lathe that I bought on ebay some time back for the bargain price of £100.00.
I made use of a design championed by Steve Ramsey on his YouTube channel Woodworking for Mere Mortals.
I designed it in Sketchup first, to work out how much wood I needed to buy, and then bought the wood and constructed the real thing.
Leg pieces cut.
Gluing the first 2 legs.
All legs “glued and screwed”
Legs all cut to length.
Short sides added – “Glued and Screwed”
First long side added – Coach bolts used so I can dismantle it when required.
Second side added
Rebuilt, in-situ.
Side view showing the compressor it had to fit around.
I have yet to add the shelf, but that can happen some other day.
I also have yet to relocate the lathe, but since the bed alone, without the saddle, weighs over 90Kg (200lbs), and there is not a huge amount of space for manoeuvering I will wait until I have someone to help me lift it.
Next step is wiring up the electric supply from the house – 4mm Armoured cable further protected by Unistrut to a secondary consumer unit in the “workshop”, one breaker for lights and another for sockets. This is further protected back at the main consumer unit in the house by a 16A breaker. I will wire up radial circuits on 4mm T+E (twin and earth) for the sockets and 1.2mm T+E for the lights.
I may yet put up some OSB on the walls as it is will be easier for attaching sockets and any other items I would like to be easily available, even if I just use it for mounting the consumer unit.