TIL a $3 furniture pad solves my bench wobble problem

My workbench has rocked side to side for two years, ever since I built it from scrap pallets. Leveling feet were $12 a pair and I needed four, which hurt my cheap soul. Last week I shoved a sticky-backed felt pad under the short corner and it leveled out perfect. Cost me three bucks for a pack of eight at the hardware store. Now the bench doesn't dance when I hand-plane, and I can use the other seven pads for chair legs. Anyone else got a janky fix they're oddly proud of?

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emery87917d ago

Watched a buddy solve the same problem by folding a beer coaster under one leg of his table saw stand. It worked for about six months until the coaster got soggy from a spilled drink and turned to mush mid-cut. He upgraded to a wad of duct tape wrapped around a nickel, which is still holding up two years later. Some fixes are temporary, some just refuse to quit.

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