brightspark
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a hinged plate to stand on would make it very usable and rigid as like this https://www.google.co.uk/search?sou...30j0i8i13i30j0i8i13i10i30j0i22i30.atJ9o9jEyto
I see what your saying, I guess it really depends on the main tasks at hand. My vice doesn’t get a pounding in fact far from it but what it does a lot of is after I’ve tacked something up I generally put it in the soft jaws and give it a little pull or tweak to get it back in tolerance. Even the teeeeeeeeniest tweak would see a free stander whizzing around the work shop.Fair comment, @Richard.
I do both woodworking (woodturning primarily) and metalwork in the workshop and I try and keep the two at separate ends. I don't have a metalwork workbench, just the folding welding table that you can just see the legs of so having a large metalwork vice that's secure enough for my needs so far makes sense - also means I can (just) move it outside for other needs - and also move things around so I can still get a car in the workshop too. For my needs it suffices; I'm a hobbyist metalworker and welder.
I did try with the jaws fully open and my 16st was just able to lift the rear leg when my I put all my weight on the tommy bar.
What sort of 'average' weight are you likely to be holding in the jaws?
It’s a decent build and a good fun thread but I’m not entirely sure I really get the stand.
Can someone educate me cos the way I see it, bolting a vice onto a free standing movable stool is pretty much rendering that vice useless ...... is it not?
You can’t pull on something in the jaws or really hit it. It looks like that will take no effort at all before it’s moving and possibly on its side. Any amount of heavy weight or length especially over the front is gonna see it over by the look of it.
It looks like that’s only gonna be any good for very light duty stuff at best.
In all seriousness I don't know,