maveRick
07-14-2002, 02:38 PM
or
<CENTER> "A PoMoFo's ROLLING WORK BENCH"</CENTER>
Who needs a dining table anyway? The wife never cooks, the kids are never home, everyone eats their pizza in the TV room – that table is just wasted kindeling that could be put to good use!
Start by obtaining a kitchen table. :D
Secondly go to Harbor Freight where they have casters on-sale now for like a buck ninety-nine a piece.
Get two swivel casters (http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/photos/38700-38799/38711-t.gif) and two non-swivel casters (http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/photos/38700-38799/38708-t.gif).
Go to your local lumber yard and look through the irregular-cut wood and receive, at no (as in my case) or very-little charge, a sheet of plywood (3/8" or thicker depending on span). Insist that 'homey' (Home Depo employee) cut it to size. Never mind the fact that the lumber was free - the sign reads ‘First Two Cuts Free". Threaten to call the district manager if necessary (note: if that doesn't work, break out into a fake teret spell - plywood dust will start flying quicker than a cat can lick it's ass).
Back home, look through your coffee-can of miscellaneous bolts/nuts/washers/syringes and find enough to almost complete the job.
Borrow your neighbor’s drill (don’t forget, you still have his chuck from the last time you borrowed it so remember to say “Oh, I don’t need a chuck – I’ve got two pair of vise grips”).
One six-pack of your favorite flavored kool-aid.
With those tools, combined with a positive attitude and knack for telling bold-faced lies (“I have NO idea what happened to the dining table, Honey”!) you’ll have a small workbench that you can easily put your friend’s chop-saw and welder on and move it in and out of the garage when you wanna get away from the family!
I’ll let the pics speak for themselves on the “Assembly destructions” (just remember to put both non-swivel casters on ONE side of the table!):
<center>http://users3.ev1.net/~rickbook/album1/table1.jpg
http://users3.ev1.net/~rickbook/album1/table2.jpg
http://users3.ev1.net/~rickbook/album1/table3.jpg
Estimated total cost to build:
4 casters - 6 bux
plywood - 0 bux
miscellaneous fasteners - 0 bux
kithchen table - zilch
Budweiser - 5 smackers
Grand Total 11 Georges
Now get out off your lazy ass, have fun, and most importantly,
<center>“WATCH 'EM FANGERS!”</center>
<CENTER> "A PoMoFo's ROLLING WORK BENCH"</CENTER>
Who needs a dining table anyway? The wife never cooks, the kids are never home, everyone eats their pizza in the TV room – that table is just wasted kindeling that could be put to good use!
Start by obtaining a kitchen table. :D
Secondly go to Harbor Freight where they have casters on-sale now for like a buck ninety-nine a piece.
Get two swivel casters (http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/photos/38700-38799/38711-t.gif) and two non-swivel casters (http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/photos/38700-38799/38708-t.gif).
Go to your local lumber yard and look through the irregular-cut wood and receive, at no (as in my case) or very-little charge, a sheet of plywood (3/8" or thicker depending on span). Insist that 'homey' (Home Depo employee) cut it to size. Never mind the fact that the lumber was free - the sign reads ‘First Two Cuts Free". Threaten to call the district manager if necessary (note: if that doesn't work, break out into a fake teret spell - plywood dust will start flying quicker than a cat can lick it's ass).
Back home, look through your coffee-can of miscellaneous bolts/nuts/washers/syringes and find enough to almost complete the job.
Borrow your neighbor’s drill (don’t forget, you still have his chuck from the last time you borrowed it so remember to say “Oh, I don’t need a chuck – I’ve got two pair of vise grips”).
One six-pack of your favorite flavored kool-aid.
With those tools, combined with a positive attitude and knack for telling bold-faced lies (“I have NO idea what happened to the dining table, Honey”!) you’ll have a small workbench that you can easily put your friend’s chop-saw and welder on and move it in and out of the garage when you wanna get away from the family!
I’ll let the pics speak for themselves on the “Assembly destructions” (just remember to put both non-swivel casters on ONE side of the table!):
<center>http://users3.ev1.net/~rickbook/album1/table1.jpg
http://users3.ev1.net/~rickbook/album1/table2.jpg
http://users3.ev1.net/~rickbook/album1/table3.jpg
Estimated total cost to build:
4 casters - 6 bux
plywood - 0 bux
miscellaneous fasteners - 0 bux
kithchen table - zilch
Budweiser - 5 smackers
Grand Total 11 Georges
Now get out off your lazy ass, have fun, and most importantly,
<center>“WATCH 'EM FANGERS!”</center>