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Handy tip. I shall remember to clamp a bit of bar in the vice before mounting it!
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That's exactly how I did both mine and my dads, its such a pita if you don't.
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That must me a typo, If that tube is 14"dia then the vice is nearly 6 feet long.
A vice pedestal is a brilliant idea to keep your bench clear. The only other options I could come up with were to have the vice easily removable with either the ball lock bolts used in Bluco/Siegmund/Devian/stronghand tables or have a woodworkers vice and a real vice to be clamped in it.
lol ahem yes perhaps more like 4" ahem ahem,,,,,
Finally set mine up today, though slightly annoyed as I was clever and tried to order just the right length bolts. And failed to take into account the washers. Fiddlesticks. Still, they've done up, just, and 60mm ones are on order. I dare say I'll find a use for these in due course...
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Judging by your other shop pics I thought you would have all ready had a wide selection of nuts and bolts for every occasion, it just looks so organised.
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very nice indeed sir, wish i could have stretched to new plate for the top of mine, we will now fully expect to see lots of things being built on the new bench.
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i put my vice directly over the the leg so i can knock 6 shades of sh ,, te out on it
Mine's not far off the leg to be fair, but with enough space either side that the position doesn't inpair the workplace.i put my vice directly over the the leg so i can knock 6 shades of sh ,, te out on it
Lol, yes, going through the "misc" nuts and bolts bin is on the list, need to split things up a bit more. Sadly I don't have much stock of nuts & bolts, normally just buy them in for the job (plus a few for spares) so still in the accumulation phase of workshop life. Besides, I'll probably be moving soon, so will have to uproot everything again. Top priority is Man Cave for the new place! (You may be asking, why on earth I am moving, well, the present place I own with my mother, but my Gran died recently so I finally have the cash to buy somewhere comparable myself, yay for no mortgage!)
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Both in my new workshop and in the old (now demolished) shed I added an extra leg directly under the vice to take the beating from hammering on it. Although the original was only a 2" X 3' length of timber it withstood everything I threw at it for over 16 years. The new leg is 3" square and should last longer than me!
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It's generally good form to mount above a leg. Just gives it that extra bit of sturdiness. If you're like me and never beat on a vice though, you're unlikely to notice any problems. I'd still get some upright under there though, if possible.
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What about angle iron braces every foot to beef it up?
yes im considering that it maybe cheaper to brace more often than to increase the thickness of plate.
the other option i thought about it flat bar, Can get 6 metres of 60x10 for 50 odd quid, only need about a metre of bench so could probably to it in sections for 100 quid
the other option i thought about it flat bar, Can get 6 metres of 60x10 for 50 odd quid, only need about a metre of bench so could probably to it in sections for 100 quid
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I suppose if you have a bench drill(not pillar drill) you could bolt it to one end of the table,and when you need to drill something longer than the bench drill workbase will allow,you could swing the bench drill head out so that its overhanging the edge of the table.
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I used flat bar to build one of my welding benches, I left 10mm gaps between the bars so I could use bolt down jigs to hold work pieces. First design has worked out pretty well for the jobs I use it for.
The surface is not dead flat though as it would be with plate and the flat bar could flex if clamping down anything heavy- in my case as I only had 30x5 to make the bench from but 10mm would be much better.
I have welded some bracing midway to stiffen the top up. One feature of using the 5mm though is that I can shift the bench about if I need to.
May be worth mentioning that the bar I had had been cropped into 1 metre lengths, some of the cropped ends were distorted and did not lie flat-probably not going to be an issue for you if you use the flat, but just thought I'd flag that up.
