how deep is your workbench?

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[Gibsons Glassworks]

to small only about 3 feet for me, my redmax pumping can burn the wall

[JDeMoss]

Mine is 6 ft deep. It is probably a little too big, but with a mirage and the fans right in front of me, it's nice to have the space.

[Kris .H.]

Ours is around 4ft. it is a 8x8 table with a overhead Hood

[Wonker]

I'm using one of those rolling metal tool trays like mechanics use to bolt my torch down to...sooo....it's got an ability to adjust just a little back and forth under the hood.

[LTD]

5 feet deep min. I have a few benchs, 1 and a half sheets of hardi backer deep.(cut length wise on the half sheet.) I like it 5 feet so I can lay a whole tube on the bench without any overhang. It helps for doing prodo, I like to pull LONG stringers and lattys. Also I feel this gives me enough depth to not burn the wall or ventilation.

[Shatner]

5 feet

[Greymatter Glass]

3.5 deep, 6 wide, box bench with a hood, it's about 42" table height and the roof is about 4' over that.

It works great, nothing rolls out of reach or off the edges, the sides keep glare from neighbors to a minimum, good air draw, a sheet of hardi-back fits just about perfect (3.5x5)... we have 4 of those hooked end to end with a big plenum on top.

-Doug

[β]

Don't judge a man by the siaze of his bench...LOL But really,

Mine is a scant 2.5 feet deep with some durock against the back. When i rage the redmax, the flame bounces of the beack sometimes(briefly), really, i swear....

[pyrorob05]

bought as deep as your momma

no but seriously 3 feet and its pulled back from the wall about an other half a foot

[jeves311]

when i built mine it was 3 feet , but then i added an exhaust fan that sticks out which took a foot away then had to add a foot extender piece for my torch, so it's 3 feet from the exhaust fan and 4 feet to the wall.

[HumanLathe]

5 ft or so

[phab]

...thanks for your responses folks, i think i will go ahead and just use a 4x8 sheet of plywood and cover the top with stainless steel. 4' from the wall sounds good. its a concrete wall but i was thinking about the gable fan catching too much heat.

[Julian]

It's piled about 8 inches deep with color rods and tools.

[Shatner]

...thanks for your responses folks, i think i will go ahead and just use a 4x8 sheet of plywood and cover the top with stainless steel. 4' from the wall sounds good. its a concrete wall but i was thinking about the gable fan catching too much heat.

Instead of stainless, you could use Hardy Board/Hardy Plank. It's fire resistant (you can press a molten glob of glass to it, and it'll just leave a brown mark), and a whole lot cheaper than S.S.

[Kool]

Or you could use tiles....I just switched from Hardibacker, which I used for several years. The tiles are much cleaner and the health risks less. It's super cheap, too. Home Depot seems to always have it on sale.

[luke]

i just use plywood w/ some bricks under and around my torch and i have my graphite tile right next to the torch. ive never had a problem w/ fire if a piece of glass falls on the wood.
luke

[harpentuan]

How deep is your love?

[Nick71284]

3ft with hardi backer on bench and wall :)
Nick

[Kris .H.]

Someone could make a sweet mom joke out of this :D


sorry




How deep is your love?

[jiminyrootkit]

my bench is 4 feet deep, i think.....the scrap on it, on the other hand, is about 6-8"
-f

[the0ther0ne]

I got about 3' deep. I was lucky, the place I use to work at, we made construction panels and chalk and marker bords. We also made something called panel-15. It was 1/2"or 3/4" plywood, with aluminum foil on one side and .020" thick metal on the other. I grabbed a bunch of "junk" pieces (3'x5' was considered junk, this company is wastefull!) that would of ended up in the dumpster. This stuff is the sh*t! made my whole bench and hood outta this stuff.
peace,
Dave