Remember this thing I was making?
[IMG]http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b5/boorite/worktop_over.jpg[/IMG]
Sure you do. Well, it got a glandular problem and turned into this:
[IMG]http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b5/boorite/DCFN0083.jpg[/IMG]
On the near end, I've fitted a block to which I've attached a clamp-on vise. The vise screw and guide rods ride above the table, so I made another block that fits over them. Together with "bench dogs" stuck in the "dog holes" you see there in the tabletop, this will clamp even big pieces flat onto the table.
The other end is a box you can throw stuff in.
[IMG]http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b5/boorite/DCFN0084.jpg[/IMG]
Here's what's happening underneath:
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A particle board shelf with about 120 pounds of rocks weighing the bench down so that it's solid as hell. This thing does not move. Well, the top is a little bouncy out at the ends, but that's because I made it out of petty light, thin stuff. That way, I can unclamp it from the Workmate and throw the whole thing in the truck in less than five minutes and then set it up somewhere else in the same time.
So I've invented a solid yet movable workbench for small spaces. Hooray! Or something.
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