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JohnPearson:
Keith my good fellow, looking at the photos  of the wings on your bench, why not add a removable extension onto the end of the work area. This is what I did when I was building the B52 wings, simple and can be taken away when not in use. As for covering the wings, i use copy dex when wing skining. The wings for the Kostez are 1.3m each, after i cut out the foam cores, I will use balsa or veneer to cover the wings ( which ever works out the lowest price) still pricing around.

Happy Days:
Hey John, :)
BTW did you and Richard get to go up Slieve Gallion today? I had a great couple of hours up at the Big L. :D

Regarding my work bench: If you look closely at the picie you’ll see a join in it. For various reasons relating to the sleeping arrangements of relatives from UK, (My “workshop” is actually a third bedroom and once a year my son dosses down in there on an air mattress) the work bench has, in effect two levels. One piece of chipboard is at one level, the other dips down ever so slightly, so the total bench length isn’t actually flat.
I did think of taking Ger’s idea and laying an old door across the top. Only prob is I’m not too sure where to get an old STRAIGHT door.

So you’re another Copydex user. It seems to be a very popular glue doesn’t it.
Good luck with the Kostez……I’m hoping Santa will be bring me another ‘beat-up-the-sky model that’s small enough to fit in the car and allow Mandy & me to get up to Slieve Gallion again next summer. (The wine cellar here is beginning to look rather empty. :wink:  Andrew, don‘t loose your Asda staff card!!! :lol: )

Keith

Happy Days:
Funnily enough the solution to finding a large FLAT work surface has been staring me (literally) in the face.

The door to the workshop is 2.1Mtrs high (long) x 32cms wide, wooden with a flush flat surface. :)

I’ll just whip it off its hinges and lay it on top of my uneven bench. Then I’ll re-hang it when the wings are finished. Problem solved!

Thank you Mr. Buckley :clap:

gerryb:
glad to help keith.....but! beware!!! hanging doors are notorious for being anything but flat. it has to do with temperature/moisture differences each side of the door and of course, crooked door jams.

a way to check for flatness before taking the door down is to stretch a length of chord diagonally across the door, both diagonals at the same time. if the chords touch where they cross then your door is flat. if they don't, then your door is twisted and you're back where you started (but at least you don't have to rehang a twisted door).

gerryb:
by the way keith, i assume you meant 32 inches not 32 cm's. terrible the way these young felles keep picking you up on these things!!!

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