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The $2 Standup Desk

11 points by jfoucher 15y ago

cjfont 15y ago
Better sand that down some if you don't want splinters.
- jfoucher 15y ago
  Well actuallly I did not sand it down at all, and it is perfectly fine, but I guess that depends a lot on the quality of the pallets you can find. It can't hurt to sand it down some anyway...
da5e 15y ago
Nice. I like my lay-down desk which I also sleep in. Churchill used to work in bed for four hours every morning. Hugh Hefner too. Netbooks are good for this.
a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
How would you sterilize one of these? You don't know where it's been or what's been on it.
- jfoucher 15y ago
  You're better off getting some rather new ones anyway. Shipping pallets are rarely loaded with dirty things though... and more often than not the load is completely enclosed in cling wrap
- a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallet#Food_safety_risks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallet#Food_safety_risks Food safety risks Wood pallets used to transport food can possibly harbor pathogens such as E. coli and Listeria. A release by the National Consumers League announced the testing of 70 wood pallets and 70 plastic pallets that have been loaded with perishable products and shipped to an end user was shipped overnight to an independent microbiology lab for testing. The results came back with 10 percent of the wood pallets positive for E. coli and 1.4 percent positive on the plastic pallets.[29] Contaminated pallets is enough of a thing that you should at least think twice about bringing one into your home, especially if you have ankle biters around or eat lunch at your desk. If you search for salmonella pallet you get a lot of link bait, and some indication of a PR war between the wooden pallet industry and the plastic pallet industry, and a very small number of level headed, topical articles. The idea is enough of a thing that the wooden pallet industry has responded at length: http://www.palletenterprise.com/articledatabase/view.asp?articleID=3480 http://www.palletenterprise.com/articledatabase/view.asp?art... Part of their defense is "anyway, it's tertiary packaging, so why worry?" That's fine if you're worried about individual resale items in their own packages, in a wholesale box of packages, wrapped on a pallet. Maybe not so slam dunk safe if you're bringing the pallet itself into your home.
NegativeOne 15y ago
Looks great, as long as you don't mind working on top of a dirty/unattractive pallet and have no writing to do.

The $2 Standup Desk

11 points by jfoucher 15y ago

cjfont 15y ago

Better sand that down some if you don't want splinters.

jfoucher 15y ago
Well actuallly I did not sand it down at all, and it is perfectly fine, but I guess that depends a lot on the quality of the pallets you can find. It can't hurt to sand it down some anyway...

da5e 15y ago

Nice. I like my lay-down desk which I also sleep in. Churchill used to work in bed for four hours every morning. Hugh Hefner too. Netbooks are good for this.

a_a_r_o_n 15y ago

How would you sterilize one of these? You don't know where it's been or what's been on it.

jfoucher 15y ago
You're better off getting some rather new ones anyway. Shipping pallets are rarely loaded with dirty things though... and more often than not the load is completely enclosed in cling wrap
a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallet#Food_safety_risks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallet#Food_safety_risks Food safety risks Wood pallets used to transport food can possibly harbor pathogens such as E. coli and Listeria. A release by the National Consumers League announced the testing of 70 wood pallets and 70 plastic pallets that have been loaded with perishable products and shipped to an end user was shipped overnight to an independent microbiology lab for testing. The results came back with 10 percent of the wood pallets positive for E. coli and 1.4 percent positive on the plastic pallets.[29] Contaminated pallets is enough of a thing that you should at least think twice about bringing one into your home, especially if you have ankle biters around or eat lunch at your desk. If you search for salmonella pallet you get a lot of link bait, and some indication of a PR war between the wooden pallet industry and the plastic pallet industry, and a very small number of level headed, topical articles. The idea is enough of a thing that the wooden pallet industry has responded at length: http://www.palletenterprise.com/articledatabase/view.asp?articleID=3480 http://www.palletenterprise.com/articledatabase/view.asp?art... Part of their defense is "anyway, it's tertiary packaging, so why worry?" That's fine if you're worried about individual resale items in their own packages, in a wholesale box of packages, wrapped on a pallet. Maybe not so slam dunk safe if you're bringing the pallet itself into your home.

NegativeOne 15y ago

Looks great, as long as you don't mind working on top of a dirty/unattractive pallet and have no writing to do.