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We have a lakeside camp about 130 north of our home, and my wife has informed me (several times) that she wants to spend the entire summer there this year. I don't have a problem with that, except that it means I'll be 130 miles away from my man-cave and all of it's interesting widgets.
Then SHE made the mistake of telling me to just buy an enclosed trailer and put all my stuff in that.
hmmmm
so a 6x12 enclosed cargo trailer just happened to follow me home today.
My plan is to insulate it a bit, run electrical service thru it with a 30A twist connector to the outside world. Build benches in it and put my mini mill, mini lathe, etc etc into it. Bolting everything down so it doesn't get destroyed in transit.
my question for the benches, since weight is an issue (I have a max of 1700 pounds of stuff I can put in it)
I'm thinking of building the bench legs out of metal, either angle or square tubing. I'm thinking this would weigh less then wood legs and be stronger then wood. Does this sound right? Then the bench tops would be either 2" hemlock or oak. benches would be bolted to the walls and floors. equipment bolted to the bench tops.
my wife did draw the line when I asked if I could stencil "Mobile Man Cave Commend Center" on the side of it.
Then SHE made the mistake of telling me to just buy an enclosed trailer and put all my stuff in that.
hmmmm
so a 6x12 enclosed cargo trailer just happened to follow me home today.
My plan is to insulate it a bit, run electrical service thru it with a 30A twist connector to the outside world. Build benches in it and put my mini mill, mini lathe, etc etc into it. Bolting everything down so it doesn't get destroyed in transit.
my question for the benches, since weight is an issue (I have a max of 1700 pounds of stuff I can put in it)
I'm thinking of building the bench legs out of metal, either angle or square tubing. I'm thinking this would weigh less then wood legs and be stronger then wood. Does this sound right? Then the bench tops would be either 2" hemlock or oak. benches would be bolted to the walls and floors. equipment bolted to the bench tops.
my wife did draw the line when I asked if I could stencil "Mobile Man Cave Commend Center" on the side of it.