Re: Robotic/Electronic Work-bench suggestions or plans

Hoss wrote: 
"Too_Many_Tools" <too_many_tools@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message:

And if they exist, where are they created? When I asked for pictures of
robot labs, there were no takers.


You know, I never really thought much of my robot work area to post pictures to my site or anything. But here are some pictures I threw up to my web server of my constructions area. Its a bench I made in my shop. No web page to go along with the pictures (yet), but I think they are fairly self explaining.

Oh, and no making fun of my designing, construction or electrical methods! :)

http://www.hossweb.com/images/Robotics/bench/01.gif
http://www.hossweb.com/images/Robotics/bench/02.jpg
http://www.hossweb.com/images/Robotics/bench/03.jpg
http://www.hossweb.com/images/Robotics/bench/04.jpg
http://www.hossweb.com/images/Robotics/bench/05.jpg
http://www.hossweb.com/images/Robotics/bench/06.jpg
http://www.hossweb.com/images/Robotics/bench/07.jpg
http://www.hossweb.com/images/Robotics/bench/08.jpg
http://www.hossweb.com/images/Robotics/bench/09.jpg
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http://www.hossweb.com/images/Robotics/bench/11.jpg
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http://www.hossweb.com/images/Robotics/bench/13.jpg
http://www.hossweb.com/images/Robotics/bench/14.jpg

-Hoss
hossweb.com




I like that. Big Beefy construction. You will never have to worry about the bench moving on you. That drives me crazy when I'm working on something like putting screws into hardwood at an odd angle.

I think your electrical work is more than adequate. It leaves you open to modify it at any time. I remember my dad built his dream bench back in the early eighties. It was all prebuilt cabinets and butcher block tops so he could build his model airplanes. We had the wall sockets spaced out along the wall just above the counter top where we thought we would never be without a socket.

We were wrong. We were always hooking up a power strip or a short extension cord, because we never ran any to the cabinet fronts where we could keep the cords off of the work piece. And because we had run them in the walls behind his paneling, we couldn't get into them easily to run new ones.

I like what you did better. It's all open, so you can store stuff underneath and get to it easily. You might try adding a few shelves above and below, but watch that you don't put them where you can bang your knees.

For anybody else reading this, and you have a little money to spend, Craftsman makes these mechanics workbenches that haves butcher block tops. They have built in power outlets on the front underneath the counter top and along the front edge of the shelf over the bench itself. They have switches for both sets of outlets. These are what we use at work, a radio shop. We put everything up to 42" high Master IIIs, which take two of us to heave up there, on these things.

They've also got a set of drawers on one side and a cabinet on the other. On the top shelf I keep all my test equipment and a fair amount of technical manuals. The counter top itself is at least 36" deep, about 6' long and 2" thick. They have taken a lot of abuse over the years and I expect them to be there for many years to come.

Eljin
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