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Face it, small machines are small, I am not. This makes me bend over to be able to see what I'm doing and this puts my face in the line of fire with chips and Id like to avoid both issues, bending to see and chips in my face.
Here's the space I'm working with.
For the sake of this discussion, lets work around the fact this end of the workspace looks like a meth lab/stereo repair/fencing operation/Ammo dump (Hey, I have a lot of irons in the fire and meth is harder to make than I thought) and focus on the space its self.
Would it be a bad idea to make a 4-6" thick cement slab to mount my machines on?
Initial calculations tell me a 6" thick slab would be 800lbs and as 4" would be roughly 540lbs. Roughly half of this weight would be held up by the kitchen cabinets I saved from our remodel and the rest would be supported by a yet to be determined structure. If you look you can see the end of the butcher block is unsupported as of now, and I might extend this another foot in that direction.
Is this a crazy idea? I need the extra height, but most methods I have looked at for something solid like butcher block or granite are just too expensive.
Anyone see a downside?
Here's the space I'm working with.
For the sake of this discussion, lets work around the fact this end of the workspace looks like a meth lab/stereo repair/fencing operation/Ammo dump (Hey, I have a lot of irons in the fire and meth is harder to make than I thought) and focus on the space its self.
Would it be a bad idea to make a 4-6" thick cement slab to mount my machines on?
Initial calculations tell me a 6" thick slab would be 800lbs and as 4" would be roughly 540lbs. Roughly half of this weight would be held up by the kitchen cabinets I saved from our remodel and the rest would be supported by a yet to be determined structure. If you look you can see the end of the butcher block is unsupported as of now, and I might extend this another foot in that direction.
Is this a crazy idea? I need the extra height, but most methods I have looked at for something solid like butcher block or granite are just too expensive.
Anyone see a downside?