Pat Turner
08-21-2016, 11:28 PM
So I got a workbench from work. It has a 1-3/4" laminated slab top, that was cantilevered out from the workbench frame by 8" or so. Then someone hung a drawer unit off the top with half the weight on the unsupported front edge and half about 1/3 from the rear. As you can see, the front 3" just broke off, and it's splitting at a second glues line. I want to reuse the top as a misc workbench (and thus keep clutter off my 3" thick maple bench/assembly table), so I've decided to rip the top at the second failed glueline (about 6" from the edge). But I'm wondering about the rest of the top- anyone have any experience with these? There is a second failling joint in the middle of the top. I could rip through it and joint and glue...
As for the drawer unit, I was planning on hanging it off a sub base glued up from 2 thicknesses of 3/4" plywood (not sheets but 3.5" wide strips running front to back along the legs, as well as across the bench at the front and rear of the drawer unit.
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As for the drawer unit, I was planning on hanging it off a sub base glued up from 2 thicknesses of 3/4" plywood (not sheets but 3.5" wide strips running front to back along the legs, as well as across the bench at the front and rear of the drawer unit.
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