Movable Garage Work-Bench. Looking for ideas/solutions.

Hey everybody, I recently came into a very rugged table top for a garage work-bench. It's 10ft wide by 4 feet deep plywood top, built on 2x9 boards that span the entire perimeter and enforced by at least 5 runners in the middle. It's really an awesome find with a lot of potential. As luck would have it, I also lucked into a fully functional work bench about a week before that is 8'x4', so I don't want another non-movable unit. (Seriously... The things people will just throw away, especially in this economy.....) My goals for this 2nd table are this: 1) collapsible legs. 2) Adjustable legs. 3) Heavy-Duty locking casters on the bottom so it can be pushed around with ease. 4) a panel in the back that would allow for A/C, D/C and USB inputs when plugged into the wall. 3 4 are easy. 3 is especially easy if I just decide on a specific height and bolt in some 4x4s and put some casters on the bottom. I'd really like to be able to fold this up and store it in the corner when I'm not using it. It's a 2 1/2 car garage with only one car parked in it now, but that room can be swallowed up pretty quick and a 2nd permanent 4'x10' table really dominates the free space available, and wouldn't even be doable with a 2nd car. When the table is on it's side and folded up, I would have more Casters on the side so it could easily be rolled into a corner. Obviously the problem with 12 is the weight of the table top, and build this in such a way where one person would be able to tilt it on its side without sacrificing the integrity of the legs every single time. I'm also open to any easier to assemble pulley-type system ideas from the overhead rafters to help accomplish this goal. I want to avoid not only breaking the legs, but avoid having to ask my neighbor to come over and give me a hand every time i want to adjust the height/use/or store the table. Anybody have any ideas to ponder? Also, I apologize if a similar topic has already been brought up that I'm not aware about. Maybe this question isn't as unique as I thought it might be. I didn't even feel that this particular forum was a good fit for my question, but I didn't find one that I felt was a better fit. THANKS! You shop like a woman..........oooh, I'll catch it now...........you buy things because they are on sale, not because you need them. But that's OK, since it is for a work shop. All limits are pulled. If you have the ceiling height, could you not hinge the smaller table top to the wall and drop it down, out of the way when not in use. Legs, likewise could be hinged so they could be locked in a service position or in a storage position. I have one at my barn that we use just on occasion, but since it takes up so much space, we hinged it and keep it dropped against the wall when not needed. OK, scene 2. Since the larger table is so ruggedly built, you may could make a shorter version, on lockable casters to where it would slide under the longer one. One space, two tables. Perhaps: Noden Adjust-A-Bench - Home Huh.... No shopping involved. Maybe I just post like a woman....? Geez... That being said...... Awesome idea, my friend! It would block the window when not in use, but i always have a bedsheet covering the window anyways. So.... I guess the next question I'd have for you is mount this to ensure maximum integrity of the necessary hinges/pulley system over the years. I actually don't mind at all the idea of a rope and pulley system to be used when the table top is in it's stored position. I would have to build a support system underneath it that would allow un-hitching of the rope when actually in use so it wasn't in the way, of course..... Guess I'll just put lockable casters on the bottom of what I previously thought would be my permanent table. When I don't need two, just roll the 2nd one up and put the 1st one there. Adjustable is probably impossible without spending major bucks I don't have. If anyone has any ideas for that, let me know. It might be quite a while, but eventually I will update this post with pics of what I come up with again. Thanks again Chandler Also, thanks for the link drooplug. I've seen some pre-made self-adjusting table legs before and were amazed, but they're just so out of my price range which is about next to zero now. I just happened to luck into this free complete work bench and a free table top within about 8 days of each other and trying to figure out what I'm going to do with them to make them the most useful to me, short of selling one.

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