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[sorrowmonkey]

Utinam barbari spatium proprium tuum invadant!
"May barbarians invade your personal
space!"
You are highly confrontational and possibly in a
bad mood. You would have sworn in this quiz,
if I had made it an option.


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Well, we got the workbench set up, but we weren't able to mount the vise. We need to drill though 1/4" steel for both of the rear bolts, and all I have here is wood bits. I'll also need a flourescent light or something for over the table. There are incandescent bulbs down there, but it would be too dark to actually work that way. In any case, cool beans.

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[nrawling.livejournal.com]

Well, I actually got it from Hans' dad who is retiring.

As it turns out though, he had two, and he's willing to part with the other one as well. I was going to steal one of the legs for my bench (they both original had center supports, as well as the ends) but it's going to end up in the dumpster eventually.

There is a catch though, the benches have an all-metal support structure (only the top is wood) so they weigh something like 450 lbs, and are about 4x10 feet. I'm still sore from moving the one, I'm not too excited about moving another one anything soon.


My father-in-law had a fairly good solution for his bench, though, that you might be interested in. Buy one sheet of 1/2 or 3/4-inch plywood, and buy 3 extensible sawhorse-style legs. It's worked out great for him, but he doesn't regularly form steel or rivet. Unless you're going to take up armorsmithing, you could probably "make-do" with something like that.