The task begins of clearing enough room for desk #2.

The towers were finally dismantled after 20 years.  If any of them get scrapped, it's going to be the loading tower.  Those giant bolts & the giant screwdriver were quite the story, but only 1 tower was ever built with them.  It was such a powerful dream to built 5 towers, the dream became an illusion, but it all stopped after 3.  The lion of the time had a feeling there wouldn't be enough room for 5 even before the cost of storage made them impractical.

The decision was made to scrap the table made in whatever country that was.  It was less stable than the Chinese table.  If anyone picks it up, it'll have the casters built for it.  It was the 1st table the lion kingdom got in 2000, a bare minimum starting point to eat on.  It looked so much more impressive than the folding tables from the 1970's, but it was the same.  

Most of the day was spent clearing the destination.

Note to future lion that the ifixit extension is essential for getting the bolts started in the motor area.

The USB cables aren't long enough for it to extend to full height without shuffling cables.

The corner light was finally moved from the kitchen to the hardware lab where it was desperately needed.  The next adjustment lions would make is swapping the clock light & moving it over the bed.  There would thus be a concentration of light against the wall so lions could see what they were eating.

There's enough room to access the wall & clean the confuser finally.

The 3 towers were stuffed under the folding table, never to be used again.

There is enough room for 1 more desk, with a custom panel bolted on.  It would go right against the linoleum.  The last folding table is a real disaster.  It's important to consider the alternative to bringing home another standing desk even if it never moves.  It would be another cheap table with exactly the same panel another standing desk would have, which needs a custom panel to fit in the space anyway.  

The mane problem is finding a suitable panel.  It needs a 34" x 41" panel to replace the space provided by the folding table & be wide enough to bolt on the stand.  

1/2" MDF can be glued to form a 1" panel.  It's going to sag just like the folding table.  The day job panels are really flimsy particle board.  They sag less than MDF but still sag.  The threaded inserts strip easily.  They have some dents from transport.  They delaminate if they get wet.  The lion kingdom stuck packing tape on to keep them dry.

The leading solution is just cutting the day job panel with the missing insert with the jigsaw, sanding it, & bolting the cut side on without threaded inserts.  It would be kind of medieval.  The cut edge could be sealed with beeswax.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK1U9yxAB94

The internet says beeswax makes a good coating for wood.

The other item is desk #2 doesn't have a crossbar because there isn't enough room.  The crossbars aren't sold separately & it would be nice to have a complete set of parts for future use.  Having said that, none of the drawers were kept with the desks either.  The crossbars are held on by low quality countersunk bolts.  They strip easily.  The paint makes it take some doing to insert a hex wrench.

In 2020, the lion kingdom had sat at folding tables for 20 years & was expecting to spend the rest of its life sitting at folding tables.  It wasn't as nice as the day job's standing desks, but it beat commuting for 3 hours.  It's hard to believe how far away that was from what eventually happened.

These desks are probably going to the grave with the lion kingdom & may be used in a larger space where the crossbars could fit.  The dying lion will remember the 1 job which provided all its furniture.  Maybe it'll go down as the last job to ever have office furniture to scrap.  Future jobs will have no furniture or they'll end in offices.  There isn't going to be another one which vacates its office before ending & scraps all the furniture.  They at minimum try to auction it off.  The old lion kept his oak desk from 1985 forever.

The 1st time lions ever heard of purpose built standing desks was a single fixed height one at Tivo that a morbidly obese woman used.  Then, Frankly Chat ordered a bunch of them from Geek Desk.  It looked so corny for a company to buy motorized standing desks as if anyone wanted such a fancy desk instead of a raise.  Finally, the last 2 day jobs ordered them & they were pretty standard.  People stood about 50% of the time.

In lion experience, the mane task is remembering to sit down for a certain amount of time because the stability ball cost money & having a  motorized desk at home is a privilege.  Even rich gootubers don't have motorized desks.