Building a simple bench

[DanH]

The top plate is a long story. I picked out a flat piece of plate at the steel supplier that the 4x4 piece would be cut from and when I came to pick it up the piece they gave me was bent like a potatoe chip. After using it for several years I found a fab shop that had a large enough roller to roll the plate flat. It would have been alot easier and cheaper if the first supplier had given me a better piece to begin with. I had to prepay for the plate and pick it up a coulpe of days later (for them to cut it to size). I think they just found another piece rather than cutting the one I picked out.

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