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I would like to make a knockdown one, and it looks like theirs could be tweaked to be so easily enough...

Neither for me but I needed another work bench and a go bar deck when some really rough shape (warped) mahogany and maple were available super cheap at the lumber yard. So I build the shelf to be the correct height to be storage/go bar deck. If you like the finish just leave a bottle of shellac in a tequila bottle near a space heater in a cold garage

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Mine was a 2'x2' piece of 3/4" CDX plywood nailed to the ceiling above a bench. Now that I have 12' ceilings, it's the bottom of a huge shelf above a work bench.

The LMI style could break down easily with the addition of some slots in the corners for the rods to slip out.

I built mine with a sheet of 3/4" plywood, all thread and conduit for about $25. It's easy enough to take apart if necessary.

Ed, I would think you'd just screw a couple pieces of plywood to the rafters and use your setup bench top, Build a torsion box to change heights and can store out of the way when not in use. It would be open on 3 sides and wide enough to be gluing 2 plates up at a time... Store the go-bars between the rafter and plywood so it's out of the way but right there when you need it.

Sort of like mine but bigger and open on 3 sides.

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I'm really into being able to spin it around. I'm going to. Make a collapsible one, somehow...

Ed, if it HAS to be quickly collapsible, stop reading now.

Otherwise, if it just needs to be movable, the design in the book (Black, Section 4.8.3, pic p 3-1) is stiff/strong enough that it can be lifted fully loaded with dish, panel and go-bars to relocate it out of the way so you can use your bench for something else. That's how I use mine. And, of course, you can spin it around as and when you like. I'm thinking with your throughput, you'd have a go-bar deck on the go most of the time.

I found some Plasson pipe caps:



that I use as feet on my deck (the end you can't see is domed). If you got 8 of these (3/4") and spin them on by hand, top and bottom, instead of using the steel nuts that I lock up real tight, you'd loose rigidity in the deck structure (so would have to be careful if you wanted to lift the whole deck around loaded) but spin off the 8 caps and you could flat pack the deck in a couple of minutes.

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My version. Washers and wing nuts on each end. The sections of 1 1/2" dowel on each end of the holding rods is bored out and a lock nut tightened on to hold things together when not in use.

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