Originally Posted by
RustyJames
Formica is incredibly durable and was a strong candidate but I took it out of the running because A) aesthetics, B) the sound of a bearing bouncing on it annoys me. I don’t like glass table tops because the sound of setting a water glass on it equally annoys me. Kinda dumb but that’s just my sensibility.
When I’m working with loose bearings (which is almost never with my current fleet), I always put down a rag because I don’t want to go searching around on the floor for the bearing if I drop it.