The community bike workshop where I volunteer has a space issue. We end up with people working out in the corridor and out in front of the entrance way every open session we have.

Tools end up everywhere, and they get raided off the stationary workbenches.

To remedy this, I made a mini mobile workbench. This one is small enough that it isn't a major space concern.

I wanted another one but without intruding into the space too much, so I made it so it'd slot into the kitchen unit in the corner of the workshop.



I removed the doors, which is very convenient with this kind of hinge and had to get fairly brutal with the kickboard. I thought it'd just pull off but it was wedged and sealed in ridiculously well. I had to drill a series of holes and force it out.

I also had to remove a central pillar in the centre of the unit to make space. I plan to reinforce the underside in case someone stands on it but it seems fine without excessive weight.

I used an old computer bench and a metal frame thing from the trash for the main bench.

The hinges are recycled from godknowswhere and the dark coloured spacer block is part of a piano lid I found outside the back of the building we have our workshop in.



One of the lower shelves become the fold up tool wall. Some of the tools are held in place with strong magnets, some of which were 10mm neodymium magnets from eBay, others were bar ones I pulled out of the inside of a 2-wheel self-balancing hoverboard that was trashed in the street. They're strong as, and there were loads of them so it's worth cracking open if you see an unfixable one.

Some of tools are just inside approximately 20mm plastic pipe, there's electrical cable tubes and solvent overflow waste pipes I had left over from other projects.

I bought a 150nm piston off eBay, it happened it be basically perfect to raise the tool wall up. They are very cheap (less than 4 quid) so it's well worth it for certain projects.

I put a fitch fastener on the back of the wall wall so there's no slop when you want to yank a tool off the magnets or tool clips.

There's a video of the piston in action here:https://www.reddit.com/r/bikecoops/comm ... tool_wall/