Not what I thought I'd be posting about

...but it still qualifies as non-reprap related. :D

Earlier tonight Seppo and I built an Epic Workbench. Not one of those weedy things you might put a computer on, but something Indiana Jones could hide underneath to survive a nuclear blast. And we made it IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS! Okay, not really, but it was put together with stuff we found around the space.

Jeremy (of City Studios, the guy who leased us the space and will at some point use the rest of the warehouse) had a pile of modular office desks delivered to the warehouse a week or so ago; he'd got them for free from a decommissioned office or something. He also got a huge pile of 'junk' that came as part of the lot and was tossed out the back until it could be disposed of.

He said we could take whatever we wanted from that pile... which is a big deal because it's not junk at all. It's a large number of the modular partitioning frames and panels and such that are standard furniture for offices these days. In the dark, on treacherous ground I pulled out a couple of framework pieces and we discovered that they were each actually two frames bolted together that were *perfect* for making standing height workbenches.

An hour or so of work later, along with a couple of standard lengths of 2x4 and a sheet of ratty MDF that's been taking up space along one wall and we have the first of what will be quite a few brilliant standardised hackerspace workbenches. The MDF work surface is admittedly awful, and we'll probably replace it as soon as we can with a better specimen, but Seppo was eager to get an example finished and usable tonight, and it's perfectly serviceable (if you don't lose something down one of the larger holes :D)

We've found a few other treasures in the 'junk' pile so far, but those are going to be a surprise for later. And we've hardly scratched the surface of what is in there.

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