expired Posted by Rokket | Staff • Sep 10, 2023
Sep 10, 2023 1:11 AM
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expired Posted by Rokket | Staff • Sep 10, 2023
Sep 10, 2023 1:11 AM
Folding Wood Top Wall Mounted Workbench: 41" or 48"
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$150
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1. The brackets are held to the wood by extremely small screws. The brackets will wobble. Two screws actually had the head broken off, resulting in just the body of the screw stuck in the wood. Luckily there is enough room to drive another screw of your choice in next to any broken off ones. Note, I don't think it is a huge deal that they are a bit wobbly pre-installation, because once installed to studs, they can no longer wobble. They'd have to both wobble together, and I haven't found this to be an issue.
2. The braces come with lock nuts on the bolts. This is good. The bad thing is, you MUST check them. Nearly half of the nuts were not even hand tight. I have to assume this is by design and they expect you to tighten them.
3. You cannot tighten the nuts and bolts too much. As a matter of fact, there are two bolts in particular which should be replaced with half-inch longer ones. Reason being, the nylon portion of the lock nut is almost not engaged at all. If you tighten it to the point that the lock nut is doing its job, the mechanism will no longer slide easily.
4. There are extra grooves in the wood on the back if you have non-standard stud placement. It comes factory 32" center to center to span across two studs, and it does that perfectly.
5. The wood tops are nice. I accept the faults of the brackets at this price.
Thanks for the great deal!
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The locking mechanism is a bit different though and doesn't have gas springs
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My local home depot has the same thing but with a butcher block which would look nicer IMO than regular wood if that's what this is.
Was thinking of buying this but I have a perfectly good solid wood board that's like 5 ft
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1. The brackets are held to the wood by extremely small screws. The brackets will wobble. Two screws actually had the head broken off, resulting in just the body of the screw stuck in the wood. Luckily there is enough room to drive another screw of your choice in next to any broken off ones. Note, I don't think it is a huge deal that they are a bit wobbly pre-installation, because once installed to studs, they can no longer wobble. They'd have to both wobble together, and I haven't found this to be an issue.
2. The braces come with lock nuts on the bolts. This is good. The bad thing is, you MUST check them. Nearly half of the nuts were not even hand tight. I have to assume this is by design and they expect you to tighten them.
3. You cannot tighten the nuts and bolts too much. As a matter of fact, there are two bolts in particular which should be replaced with half-inch longer ones. Reason being, the nylon portion of the lock nut is almost not engaged at all. If you tighten it to the point that the lock nut is doing its job, the mechanism will no longer slide easily.
4. There are extra grooves in the wood on the back if you have non-standard stud placement. It comes factory 32" center to center to span across two studs, and it does that perfectly.
5. The wood tops are nice. I accept the faults of the brackets at this price.
Thanks for the great deal!
Then I removed only one half of the bracket (the part that mounts to the wall). I set the middle hole where the horizontal and vertical beams met, right in the middle of the plus sign. I then went 32 inches to the left and made a mark on the horizontal plane. I moved the laser level over to where I made the mark (on a stud of course) and marked all the holes on that side.
Then I reattached the half of the bracket back to the table and held it up by stacking things underneath... In my case a coupl Milwaukee tool boxes and a hunk of 4x6. That allowed me to line up the holes/marks I made perfectly. Screwed in the bolts to the studs and called it a day!
Sorry for the long winded response, a picture would have been better.
TL;DR: I removed them to mark the wall.
This would definitely be the cheaper way to go. Similar mounts are around $20-30 and 4' butcher block is close to $100 on its own.
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This would definitely be the cheaper way to go. Similar mounts are around $20-30 and 4' butcher block is close to $100 on its own.
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