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Offline JustMeHereTopic starter

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Workbench Fail
« on: July 23, 2025, 01:12:16 am »
Hard to tell but the back of this table is about 3 feet lower than it should be.....
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Offline Ian.M

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Re: Workbench Fail
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2025, 01:23:33 am »
That appears to be a folding dining room table and not a particularly substantial one at that.   At least it didn't totally collapse and dump all your s--t on the floor!
Its less important than it used to be now CRT TVs have gone the way of the Dodo, but the rule of thumb for building electronics workbenches was to make them strong enough to stand on to lift equipment on or off high shelves above them.  Any regular furniture short of a metal frame desk is unlikely to be strong enough.
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Re: Workbench Fail
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2025, 01:32:28 am »
It is a dining room table.  It held up for 10 years.  The glue on the legs wore out.  The table is damn near 100 years old.
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Re: Workbench Fail
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2025, 01:51:32 am »
and they called me crazy for bolting table to the wall.


also, glue. the closest I will get to glue for structural reasons is braze
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Re: Workbench Fail
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2025, 01:59:12 am »
How could you even work on such a slanted surface?
Sheesh; at least put a couple of cinder blocks back there or somethin'.
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Re: Workbench Fail
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2025, 02:00:12 am »
Im putting a hydrolic jack under it when I repair it.  On the heavy side.

To the other comment: the table is made from cherry.  It should be damn strong.  The pegs in the legs might be new.
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Re: Workbench Fail
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2025, 02:01:14 am »
Quote from: Analog Kid on July 23, 2025, 01:59:12 am
How could you even work on such a slanted surface?
Sheesh; at least put a couple of cinder blocks back there or somethin'.

It was level about 3 minutes before I took this photo.
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Re: Workbench Fail
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2025, 02:47:55 am »
So how exactly did the table collapse? That's kind of an unusual event.
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Re: Workbench Fail
« Reply #8 on: July 23, 2025, 03:43:56 am »
Quote from: Analog Kid on July 23, 2025, 02:47:55 am
So how exactly did the table collapse? That's kind of an unusual event.
Just finished repairing a laptop.  Put my hand on the table enough to unplug the power supply and creeeeeek.

I think the main issue is I had and unbalanced load on there for years. 

But the prime factor was just time.
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Re: Workbench Fail
« Reply #9 on: July 23, 2025, 04:33:27 am »
But I mean, what happened? How did it fail? Did the rear legs separate from the table? Did something break?
I've never seen any piece of furniture collapse like that, and I've had some pretty funky pieces in my house over the years.
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