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Using Specialty Hinges to Create a Workbench With Hideaway Mounted Tools
Some Skill Studio's application for five-knuckle hinges
These specialty "five-knuckle" hinges are for applications where you need 270 degrees of swing. For instance, if you had a cabinet with two doors and nothing to either side of the cabinet, these hinges would allow you to open the doors and swing them until they rested against the outer sides of the cabinet.
YouTuber Some Skill Studio turned the idea, and the hinges, sideways and used them to create an innovative hideaway-bench-tools workbench. Because his garage workshop also has to fit his service van, space is limited, and the hinges provided him with a convenient way to produce mounted tools on demand:
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Armchair critics may deride his decision to use particle board, which doesn't tend to hold fasteners well, but I assume it was a budget-based decision. Let the kid live.
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I was searching for examples of using 270-degree hinges (for a Murphy bed enclosure) and found this wonderful garage workbench/workshop project. Of course, the only bench tool I presently have to hang this way is a miter box, but it's a start! I also like the materials used, the simple construction and the vice mounts. I really need a pair of vices!
My first modification will be to add a cleanup sink that will normally be covered by a benchtop panel. Second will be basic piping for a vacuum system, as my shopvac will be stored under the bench when not in use elsewhere.