Epoxy Bench Top?

[riverside jeep]

My main bench has hardboard on it. You can just replace it easy. My newer portable table has frp on it and i love that for a surfaceView attachment 1229677

Never thought of F.R.P. but that stuff is tough! I think its available in smooth also.

 

[CarlGeorge]

I decided to go with a laminate countertop. After watching numerous videos of people making wild stuff from epoxy - I'd thought that would be about perfect for a bench top. The propensity for scratches, however, concerned me.

I like the aspects of laminate that it's impervious to oil and solvents, easy to clean, etc.

Thanks again, all, for all the comments.

 

[teele1]

i haven't epoxy coated my reloading bench but if i was going to I'd use StoneCoat Countertop https://www.stonecoatcountertops.com/home

 

[Rich S]

I just built some pantry shelves for my Daughter with 3/4” Malamine board. It’s a MDF board with a white thermal finish. Seems like it would hold up decent and clean easy. $30 for a 4x8 sheet. I bought it at HomeDepot and had them cut to width on their panel saw.

 

[08glide]

I would love to have this for a bench

 

[Mad_Charlie]

I would love to have this for a bench

So would I, but I'd be afraid to do anything on it!

 

[HomeSlice]

Years ago (late 80s) I had a loading bench 6 feet long made of two layers of 3/4" plywood. A nearby company built a new 400-yard long warehouse and coated the entire floor with an industrial grade epoxy to hold up to constant forklift traffic. I was installing a telephone system there at the time and the crew gave me a small canister of some of the excess. I coated the top of my bench with it and it not only looked great with a kind of golden color, it was nearly impossible to scratch and anything spilled on it would wipe off without sticking. When my son moved out I took over his bedroom and built a new bench down one entire wall (16') with two layers of 1" MDF and gave the epoxied bench to him for his garage. It even held up well to his dropping engine parts on it. Unfortunately, when he moved to a new house he left it for the buyer.

Any idea what that stuff was?

 

[SSL]

Any idea what that stuff was?

Sorry, too many years ago. They put it in a can for me and it wasn't labeled. It originally was in big drums, of course, and they loaded it into a big applicator with a spreader blade on behind the applicator nozzles. It was about the consistency of thick paint and took a week to harden completely for traffic. They applied it about 1/4" or so thick and it was mostly self leveling. I remember seeing it on that huge empty floor looking like amber. I do know that in about 2008 they added on to that warehouse (pretty much doubling it in size) and used what I assume was the same product. They applied a 'skim' coat to the original floor at the same time to fill in the gouges made by carelessly dropped forklift forks, mostly around the dock areas. I wasn't with the phone company by then, so had no opportunity to pester them for another can of it. When I used it, I built a small tight fitting lip around my bench top covered with plain old waxed paper, carefully leveled the top and pour it in. Used an old wide putty knife to spread it out and left it to level and dry. Enough to cover the top to about 3/8" deep. Popped the lips off when set and cleaned anyplace where the paper stuck with a little sand paper. Ended up almost too pretty to use!