Reclaimed Desk Build - We all need a place to work

[pyropetepete]

This is a mix of thing. Watch and you'll see.

So the desk it's self has been made for me to my spec. The manbehind is an amazing chap called Guy. His stuff can be seen here

http://www.chunkyreclaimedfurniture.co.uk/

He is local to me which an added bonus.

My desk is the following

• 140cm wide
• 75cm height
• 66cm depth
• Pull out table 250mm deep 130cm wide
• 3 holes for cable management

I was amazing at how fast Guy did the work. 2 weeks and it's done. Guy's kept in touch along the way with little updates. The desk is heavy and soild. Once done up it's not moving.

So here is the desk once built up........

With the table pulled out......

These are the 60mm chrome plated meta cables tidys.....

So not wanting to use just anything for my power outlet i went for something totaly different.

I got these off eBay cheap. They are used so have a few light marks....

How am joinign them all. 20mm conduit from Screwfix http://www.screwfix.com/p/20mm-galvanised-coupler-pk10/29385 ....

What holds it all togther is 20mm conduit bush. Again from Screwfix http://www.screwfix.com/p/male-brass-bush-short-20mm-pack-of-10/29963 ....

Got to play it safe so here is a gland, again Screwfix http://www.screwfix.com/p/tower-male-comp-gland-black-25mm-pack-of-2/86462 ....

Needed a funky tool to do them up, Bushking/Bush Wrench....

See why it's needed...

2.5mm earth. Advised from the sparkeys here to add an earth on each box.....

Cut into 7'' lengths.....

Handy stripping tool from B & Q. It said £8 on the shelf but when scanned was £1. I paid cash and left. RESULT!!!....

All them stripped....

Sshhh don't tell her (the wooden spoon out the kitchen)....

Neat earth coil, reason is to make the box neater....

All of the coiled up......

1 fitted, 8 more to go....

I needed some screws to mount the boxes. Trip to Homebase...

Did something right as cashier gave me a bunny for free (yes she was alright before you ask)...

Whilest out it made sense to obtain lunch of a DIY's kind (this not my norm!!!)...

Some 36 screws latter each box is fitted (4 screws to a box, 9 boxes)....

Look with the eaths fitted as well....

As i said before, the sparkyes here said to use 2.5mm so here is some 3 core 2.5mm....

Cut into 14'' lengths so room to strip...

Each box will be a disay chain, so here it is...

All 9 done....

The feed, 3m also fitted...

Trip to Ikea for 2 bits

Signum cable trunking....

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/30200253/

Set in the center and 7'' from the sockets...

Look under the desk once flipped over....

I want a lamp as well, something to take the edge off and look nice. Not eay but Ikea again and also an LED bulb http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/80106012/ ....

I went for the chrome look...

So i got working platform, i got power, i got managment and light, now i need sound (no joke these are heavy 25KG).....

I'm not a fan of the wire that came with. So went to Sevenoaks and got this...

should have been £28 but i know the owner so it was £12!!!! I got 3m which is too long!!! Might get it reterminated...

I won an LG IPS277L-BN 27" LED IPS Monitor at the start of Decemeber and today setit up, wow!

I'm toying with the socket faces being horizontal, makes access to switches easyer, the cable coming off the plug will bend less.

The pc is ready, case is being modded (topic on that within this section).

I'm really rethinking a retermination on the cable. I need 2 decent jack to phono's.

I have a Dell PowerConnect 2816 gig switch that i might fit on the side or underside of the desk. The router will stay in the front room and a homeplug used (keeps her happy).

Thanks for looking. Let me knoe what you think

Pete

 

[pyropetepete]

Small update...

Took OCUK up on there offer with gaming mat, bargin as FREE DELIVERY

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GS-002-OP

 

[pyropetepete]

Looks like you're having fun.

For the wiring between all of those backing boxes you'd usually use single wires rather than flex. Look under conduit wiring on Screwfix to see what I mean.

Reliably terminating two wires from a piece of flex into each socket terminal will be a pain. It's likely to be too soft.

It'll be okay. Bit fidly but fine. It was what i was advised.

Hardcore nice choice on the speakers... you need a bigger monitor tho now

27'' is enough, i'm use to a 14'' ultrabook!

I found this out the hard way running grey twin and earth between boxes with plastic conduit. Wouldnt have been so bad, but there were also 3 bends to get round. It was an absolute nightmare!

Nice desk, I would have went for 5 twins, as opposed to 9 singles. Much easier to wire up!

They were cheaper on there own, looked cooler and more industrial i thought. It should have been 10 but 1 failed when i took it apart to see if i could powdercoat them

 

[pyropetepete]

Loving the desk, and how big are those speakers to make the 27" monitor look small

Dimensions:
Product dimension: 220 x 325 x 558mm
Product net weight: 22.40kg
Giftbox dimension: 535 x 370 x 617mm
Giftbox gross weight: 23.4kg
Export carton dimension: 518 x 382 x 636mm
Export carton gross weight: 25.3kg

 

[pyropetepete]

so huge speakers= Increased manliness??

These are tiny to what i use to have. I once had full floorstanding 7.2 setup (dual subs)

 

[pyropetepete]

Are you doing anything with the pull out drawer as it doesn;t look as though the deskmat will fit...

Stainly knife will sort that (only the width is needed to be cut down)