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Lots of good ideas here, gang - some of which I wish I had thought of much
earlier on!

While building my 235, many years ago, I was confined to a very small
airplane factory too. So small that I couldn't afford to have the cutting
table and lay-up tables in the way - so I used a couple of large sized
hollow cored doors from the local hardware store, hinged to the wall with a
couple of 2 x 4 legs also on hinges so they could fold when the door was
swung up out of the way.

I attached a straight 2 x 4 along the outer edge to insure that the tables
would stay straight. Each door was surfaced with brown pressed-board, also
from the hardware store, (the same stuff folks use for peg-board, but
without the holes). The cutting table lasted for the the entire project and
the lay-up table had to be replaced once as it was getting pretty grungy -
even though I cleaned it by wiping down with MEK after each use. Worked fine
for me and was cheap as they come. The surface is easy on the pizza-cutter
blades, too.

Dan Schaefer

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