<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" = xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01C5307F.2EDF8EB0"> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="time"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="date"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple = style='tab-interval:.5in' id="role_body" bottomMargin=7 leftmargin=7 topmargin=7 rightMargin=7> <div class=Section1> Hi = Don,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> A disclaimer first... I’ve = got a couple of students here that can break most anything! That being said, = the frame is welded steel with a seat of wafer board covered with a fairly = durable fabric and foam rubber. The fabric needs to be replaced about every 3-5 = years. It just tacks on with a staple gun and is reattached to the metal frame = with 4 screws. If you were to put a hard top on instead of padding you = wouldn’t need to bother with anything for years, but my butt liked the cushy seat = so that’s what we went with.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> No plans, really. (It ain’t = rocket science.) Just make sure you know what the finished dimensions will be = and a good shop man will build a prototype. Our metal frame is 1 1/2” = square metal tubing (I don’t know the gauge of metal) for the legs and = 2” x 1” for the part where the seat attaches. The plastic inserts for = the feet we had to buy by the thousand, but they were only a few cents each. The = metal frame outside dimensions are 17 ½” high (Finished height with = top Is 19 ½”) x 13 wide x 31 long. The cushioned seat is ½” wafer board with = foam rubber, then Naugahyde or some durable fabric and it = overhangs the sides by 2”. If you talk heights, etc. no one seems to agree, = but we haven’t had one complaint about these. = <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Since they were made from materials = that the scene shop had (recycled) we were charged mainly for the labor and = the tops. Our students paint them (we have access to a booth near our piano = shop) and attach the tops as they return from the upholstery = shop.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Eldridge Travis RPT makes them for customers and I think he sells them for around $80 - $100, depending on = what you want.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Hope that = helps.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <st1:PersonName>Jim = Busby</st1:PersonName><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> -----Original = Message----- From: = caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On = Behalf Of Wigent, Donald E Sent: = <st1:date Month="3" Day="24" Year="2005">Thursday, March 24, = 2005</st1:date> <st1:time Hour="13" Minute="44">1:44 PM</st1:time> To: College and = University Technicians Subject: RE: [CAUT] Bench = Day(s) - Thank <st1:country-region><st1:place>Kent</st1:pla= ce></st1:country-region> <o:p> </o:p> Tel me more = about the UNBRAKABLE benches.  Sounds better than the plywood boxes that have = ben discussed before.  Can we get the = plans.?<o:p></o:p> Don Wigent = ECU<o:p></o:p> wigentd@mail.ecu.= edu<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p>= <blockquote = style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> <div> <o:p> </o:p>= </div> </blockquote> </div> </body> </html>