Thread: Some heresy - using prefab kitchen cabinets for your shop?

Originally Posted by Cgcc

I actually pine for a tap and sink in my space.

1. Easy to keep your sharpening tidy.

2. If you're running a Tormek or waterstones you need water.

I sharpen with a water stone table straddling the sink.

3. Source of water for wiping up excess glue.

4. Lessens needs for shop towels and rags to wipe your hands / keep things clean.

While I do have a bathroom not far from my garage space, I feel it really breaks the flow to have to rush in there mid-glue up to wet a rag or wash hands.

Yep and Yep.

Plus I do a fair bit of metal work and use chemicals (electrolysis, metal plating etc) for which a sink is invaluable.

I'm keeping my eyes out for a large+cheap used kitchen for exactly this. So much easier than building myself! I can't quite bring myself to buy the Bunnings one though - plain flat white cabinets too stark for me.

In case you haven't seen it my sink is an old laundry trough that I rescued when some relatives demolished their house and rebuilt.
Spash back is 6mm thick HDPE sheet which together with the lab tap was rescued from a lab refurb at work.
Teh extra depth is excellent for filling buckets and washing down electrolysis parts.
One thing that would have been useful would have been a drain board although the two HDPE shelves are perforated so they can drain
I also have a couple of pieces of brass angle which straddle the trough on which things can drain and on which my water stone sharpening station can sit.

The cupboard under the sink organics, Meths, Turps, other thinners and various lubricants.

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and a zippo hot water dispenser

Oh! and a microwave

Hi Beardy. I have done the same for plenty of IKEA cabinets and have always thought that those corner brackets were odd. I stumbled across a USA YouTube video that showed the correct to hang them. There is available (although never seen in here in my experience) a bracket that is supposed to be installed 1st on the wall. Then the internal brackets attach through the thin backs to this, sort of like a french cleat idea. I just thought houses in Sweden must have had noggins run at about 2200 in the wall