Best Bench for Makers? 

You'll need more than a few bits from a printer!!

And wood is cheaper and easier to work with. The extruded aluminum t-slot are kind of cool but really expensive especially all the extra hardware you will need.

Do they mention where to source the aluminum rail? Thanks

That’s the first thing I thought when I saw the extruded aluminium rail. It’s a great material, but could be an expensive product. You could try adapting the design and use L profile rail instead?

Customization isn’t usually cheap

How about a plan and a parts list

@@phli2413 it’s just extruded aluminum. Google that term and pick your price point

My thoughts exactly. Wanna do something cool for your home workshop? First you'll need $1k in materials...

As soon as I saw those, I knew the comments would light up. What joke is "maker" used to mean budget.

There is about 28m of 3030 aluminium extrusion for this project. It's about 9$ a meter. So the extrusions are about 250 dollars. If you count the screws and bolts you can add an extra 50$. 300 dollar is not that expensive for this project. I don't think you can make a frame much cheaper out of wood that meet the structural requirement.

@@gaetanclamart5963 The manual, when I purchased it, specifies 4040, which is even more expensive. These are rough to ship, given that a useful length probably exceeds FedEx/UPS shipping preferences. I'm looking at $500 before I even get into connectors, which can cost 50%-100% of that! Reallly comes down to if one of the half-dozen companies selling it in the US is in your metro area.

arent the profiles 40x40? @@gaetanclamart5963

Yeah, I was mentally adding it all up and thinking it's extremely expensive way to make a workbemch.

you will get to reuse all the materials at the end of life@@lorddouchebag

exactly right on all counts. none of this is either practical or cost effective. the only "makers" that would like this workbench and those who "make" youtube videos, not actual creators.

That's about $500 in 30x30 not including a ton of t-nuts and bolts which aren't cheap either. That build is close to $900 all in. Not worth it, even if it is novel.

The economics for RU-vidrs and those that sell plans are very different than for regular people.

@@almonster2066 The first link I found gave a price of 186 USD for all the profiles and the t-nuts/t-bolts gets it up to roughly 200 which is what I would roughly assume the cost would be, so unsure where you got the 500 figure from. Thats for one of those carts, perhaps you where thinking of all three?

@@tonymeijer8532 They often add double in shipping costs as the length is to long for normal packages.

@@tonymeijer8532 $200 for all the profiles, brackets, t-nuts and bolts to build one cart? Share the link.

Thank you. I knew the comments section would sort this out for me.

8020 modular tubing according to one of the other post on here.

Thank you Ryan - appreciate it!@@ryandowney9124

thank you, they are included

it is 4040, look at time code 01:04 where he is using a ruler.

They're IKEA Trofast boxes. They sell them in the children's furniture section.

@@munduate Thank you, that makes the whole project that much more viable, I'll purchase the plans then!

I have the same question! I looked at Amazon and it was over $1000 for parts. There must be less expensive ways to purchase but I am not having much luck in web searches.

Leveling each leg individually. If you look at pro grade solutions like say, the dashboard portable workshop, they all just have leveling feet on the bottom. you tap a hole in the end of your leg, and then you have a foot or caster mounted on a threaded rod that can be spun in or out to get more ground contact. This is also how many miter saw stands work (festool, for example). As far as linking 3 tables together and getting them all to plane together, you kind of don't. you could do a permanent installation like this, but for jobsite work, you REALLY try to have a single big table, as stable is achievable, level can be done with what is probably more effort than it's worth, and in plane is only in the conversation if you have VERY low standards. Things which need to be in plane are probably most practically achieved doing a dewalt DWX724 style concept: you have a single rigid beam, that your entire work area attaches to, and then you run legs from the beam down to the floor, but everything else attaches to the single large beam, NOT the floor. Not that I recommend doing it to this project. If you actually built this, you would find it wobbly (no cross bracing), expensive (heavily relies on aluminum extrusions and has a huge amount of unneeded MDF for the shelving supports ), and incredibly heavy (that looks like a half sheet of half inch MDF PER UNIT, just to have them basically function as homemade drawer slides). The storage also LOOKS modular, but there is not enough standardization to make it very practical to swap between different modules.

Yep, the colourful plastic containers are from Ikea! They’re not a huge part of the build in the end, so it might seem a bit weird to call it that way, but it was probably a huge design consideration when making the proportions and general layout of the table. Sometimes when you have an idea it can get out of hand and the end result is way different even though it’s still called the ikea bench in your head 😂

@Mega Master I totally get that! Makes sense to me now! Thanks your response

This metal stuff is called 80/20