Re: Portable work surface

["RockyTSquirrel" <gafa_usa@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ever consider using a TV dinner table..
they fold up and are reasonably small..
you can buy them new in sets or look in a second hand store for singles..
I've seen them made from plastic, metal and even wood..

RTS







"NickMark"  wrote in message
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On Friday, February 22, 2013 7:43:14 AM UTC-5, JoeRaisin wrote:
> I would like to have some sort of portable work bench/table that I can
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> stow in my truck.
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> My truck is a pick up with an 8ft bed and a topper that does not extend
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> above the cab.  Inside the bed I've divided it roughly down the center
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> with one side having shelves and tool bag storage and the other with
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> ladder hutches (8, 6 ft ladders laid flat & 4 ft on its side) and space
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> for wire spools/boxes, equipment to be installed and other material
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> (really just open area above the ladder hutch).
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> I was looking at the black and decker workmate but it really isn't all
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> that compact when folded.
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> Do any of you use something like that?  The older I get the farther away
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> the ground gets and working off a print laying on the cold concrete of a
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> commercial construction project is getting old.
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> I've gone so far as to try and design something I could build myself but
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> since I don't weld or have the ability to shape metal (cut and drill,
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> sure, but nothing beyond that), everything I can figure out would still
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> be too clunky - I guess I'm not as creative as I would have liked to
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> believe.
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> If you have something proven I'd even be willing to take it to a welder
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> - but I haven't done that with anything I've come up with as I don't
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> really want to put out the cash on spec.
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> Work carts are nice but you have to have a van to stow one of those - so
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> anything portable and compact along those lines would be great as well.
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> If you guy know of any products or have even built something along those
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> lines I would greatly appreciate it... And these old legs would thank
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> you as well.

I had to do a lot of programming lately so I took card table and folding
chair to job did it ever come in handy  we use 2 saw horse and piece of
plywood for a table works nice