Create As-Needed Work Surfaces
George VondriskaDescription
There are times when you need a work surface, and times when you need floor space. Having great work surfaces without tying up floor space can be an ongoing battle of wills in your shop. Until now. Powertec’s Arachni-flex Portable Workstations are a great problem-solver. They fold up into a small footprint when you don’t need them, and easily open into a large work surface when you need it.
Get the size you need
From 2’ x 4’ up to 4’ x 8’, with lots of sizes in between, Powertec has an Arachni-flex that’ll fit your needs. I use the 4’ x 8’, equipped with sacrificial boards, when I’m cutting sheet goods down to manageable sizes. The Workstations are 36” tall.
Add accessories
The Workstations themselves add a lot to your shop. Make ‘em even more versatile by adding accessories. You can get MDF tops for them that are blank, or have ¾” dog holes, or have ¾” dog holes and T-track. The tops fold so they’re easy to store.
And more accessories
There’s a lot of stuff to go along with those MDF tops: stops, hold downs, clamps for lateral pressure, T-track stuff, dog hole stuff, etc. The list of things you can use with the tops is nearly endless.
More info
For more information on the Arachni-flex Portable Workstations and Powertec products, visit the company’s website.
This is gonna be such a fun project. I'm replacing these Janky kitchen cabinets with new cabinets. First step in that process is cutting the sheet stock down to more manageable sizes. In order to cut a big sheet, I need a big work surface setup. So for that, I am gonna use one of the erect nolex portable workstations. Watch this as it goes from this footprint to that footprint. That's pretty cool. Let's get this set up so I can cut my sheet. This is perfect. We have sacrificial boards held in the blocks held on the acting flex workstation. So now I'm in a position where I can get a straight edge on here and use my cirka to rough this down to size. This is a very cool application, these portable workstations, but power tech has a lot going on with these. Let me show you a couple other things. I was just using the four by eight version of the reactive flex. In order to rough that sheet down, there are a lot of different sizes available of these workstations. This is the two by four and one of the things that's cool about this is, we can get different tops for it. We can get a plain top or a top with three quarter inch dog holes or a top with three quarter inch dog holes and t track. Once you've got the top you want on there, it'll pin in place to make sure it stays where you want it. And Power Tech has given a lot of thought to the accessories that go with this top. So let's have a look first at accessories you can use as a stop. In addition to all those great steps. Power Tech also has a bunch of really cool hold downs to secure your work. So it's very handy that when you need a workstation, you can set these up. When you wanna break them down, you're down to a footprint like that. So it's very easy to put out of the way the array of accessories for the erect flex is really, really, really broad, definitely worth checking out. So when you need a workstation like this in your shop, this is worth a look.
The correct link is: https://powertecproducts.com/workshop/work-stations-saw-stands/
Weblink has an h in it making it powertech instead of powertec
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Link to Powertec's website doesn't work. Also, it appears that as of 5/9/2024 the arachni-flex products are not in production yet.