Particle board flooring as benchtop

[snowyskiesau]

I'm in the process of building a workbench for the shed, Pretty straight forward just a fram of 90x45 pine with a Red Tongue particle board top.

I also need to build a smaller bench for the lathe. Before I moved, I had a bench made of 90x45 MGP 10 pine with a 38mm ply wood top (2 thicknesses of 19mm ply). This worked well and there was no problems with movement in the bench top

I want to do the same but using the Red Tongue as I have a spare sheet. Can this be glued together to make a solid top as I did with the ply? If so, what glue should be used?

[Gaza]

just glue the un waxed side togther use liquid nails and drive some screws in till it goes hard then back the screws out.

[orraloon]

I used pva and it worked ok for my lathe bench. I used screws to hold the 2 sheets together while the glue dried. From the underside so nothing is seen from the top.
Regards
John

[larquini]

Carpenters use liquid nails and particle board nails to fix it to floor joists, and being a wood based material, any wood glue is going to being sufficient for your application. Just use what ever you have in your shed )

[Col]

My bench started with 12mm chipboard and 18mm ply as a top. Once that wore a bit I put 6mm tempered masonite over it. I am in the middle of refurbishing my bench at the moment. I sanded down the masonite after giving all the dings a fill with bodyfiller and getting it all nice and flat again. Because it was made with cast offs and some not fully dry timber it had developed a bit of a twist over the years so that has been sorted. I changed the two vices to 9 inch quick release and added another sheet of 15mm ply over the top. A bit of a layer cake but practical and now heavy. After all it is a workbench and I don't need to think twice about nailing into it or screwing a cleat here or there. So far it has seen about sixteen years of service and only owes me the cost of the new vices and a bit of spare time.

Col.