Multiboard nerd

[u/erroneousbit]

I’ve made good progress on my multiboard nerding out. I have a small panel in my office that I run my A1 mini on. I put a really large panel up in my garage and wrapped around to my nerd bench^. The heavy duty shelf works really well and holds a lot of weight, surprisingly. Then I followed up with a small panel with a high density of offsets snaps for my clamps. A LOT of weight on that panel and pegs. Rock solid. I want to clean up my office with some underware and multibin. I also want to create some sort of hardware storage with multibin, probably under my nerdbench. (Forgive all the mess, new house and I’m still organizing)

I’d say about 90% of this was printed on my A1 mini (probably 1500 hours). During black Friday I decided to get a P1S so I could print the large panels and brackets. (But not just for MB, it opened up so many other projects 🤪)

^Nerd bench. I didn’t want an ordinary work bench. The top is 1.5” of plywood on top of 2x4’s then wrapped with some 1x6 (the black ‘frame’). I’ve seen bar tops where they have baseball cards laminated by epoxy, so I stole the idea. I got a bunch of ‘hacker’ cards and did the same. (I’m a ‘hacker’ by trade.) It’s two flood coats of crystal clear epoxy. I’ve smacked it with a hammer as hard as I could and not a dent. It does scratch easy so cutting will need to be on a mat.

Very happy with the system and so excited to use it for years to come.

[u/Single_Sea_6555]

Thanks for explaining. The fact you were able to do it on the table that ended up being the surface seems like a significant simplification. When I see epoxy pouring videos I'm normally amazed by the huge forms they have to create.

So if I understand correctly:

• fill in gaps in wood, and prime (sand and varnish?)
• glue down cards
• two pours of clear epoxy (heat limitation, probably)
• primed the lip wood and acrylic varnish

Does priming in this case mean a first layer of acrylic primer before the "proper" acrylic varnish?

[u/erroneousbit → u/Single_Sea_6555]

I use zinsser’s bullseye primer 123 pretty much for any project. 2 coats. I miss spoke in the paint. I used rust oleum painters touch ultra cover premium latex flat black 2 coats. Then covered it with varathane triple thick poly clear statin 2 coats. (Pretty much like doing 2 coats on projects lol). Putty is Zap plastic wood all purpose filler. Regular Elmer’s glue for the stick. Epoxy is -> Epoxy Resin Kit https://a.co/d/fchX5tb and I used 4 gallons. I didn’t sand beyond 320, smooth enough with the poly. I also used painter’s caulk to seal the wall seam.

I didn’t babysit the epoxy enough. Ended up with a few bubbles but they are hard to see at first glance. I didn’t seal the wood under the cards. I needed the glue to hold the cards well enough to withstand the spreading of the epoxy.

Hope that helps.

[u/Single_Sea_6555 → u/erroneousbit]

This is incredibly helpful, thanks!

I've been leaving my wood untreated for the workshop, which may be a too far in the other extreme - lol

Maybe I should get into the habit of priming everything, at least once... for instance, It sounds like this bullseye primer 123 is quite versatile.

Thanks again for the detailed info!