Need a bench
The flat pack style Proteus bench are a great space saving and storage unit provided you put them together correctly, they are best fixed to a wall, then a MDF worktop of a minimum 18mm or for maximum strength 25mm added via screwing from underneath.
You can if you wish add a vinyl top or even carpet tiles glued down.
The link below will show you a detailed drawing of the units and sizes and prices.
http://www.framersequipment.co.uk/keenc ... enches.htm
Want to make your own bench?
I have drawn a basic bench design below this will give you an ideal starting point. The bench you can easily construct with MDF and basic carpentry skills. If you work out your required measurements you can always get your local DIY store to cut everything to size then you just need a little time and patience to assemble the parts like a kit form unit.
For your mount cutting you will require a clean area, good lighting and a purpose built bench to suit the design of your mount cutter and store mountboard.
The bench needs to be long enough to hold your mount cutter depending on which size machine you have? i.e. 48inch or 60inch. It requires a recess in the top for you to fit the mount cutter baseboard in thus keeping the mountboard level with the top of the bench when cutting.
The bench top needs to be set at a working height approx 38inches, to stop back ache and large enough to support a full sheet of mountboard on top and store different colours and types of mountboard in sections
underneath.
If you are not sure of your workshop layout and you may wish to move your bench later? Or store mountboard horizontally, you could conceder this method.
8 x 4 foot chipboard built in layers with nine solid engineer’s bricks in between, three each end and three in the middle.
To stop the brick dust dip the brick in a bucket of watered down builders PVA glue and allow to dry before using
Once you have built up you layers nearly too working height, make a timber frame outside size 8 x 4 foot from 3 x 2 inch timber and attach a minimum 18mm MDF top.
This quick and easy method will leave you with plenty of mountboard storage and a very stable bench, which you can disassemble and reassemble very quickly transporting your mountboard onto each layer as you go.
MITREMAN
