Portable Workbench Build Process

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3/4/2021

The dovetail guide clamp could then be fitted into its hole and tightened. I used an engineer's square to mark a line that is away from the dovetail guide in the fully-tightened position:

I then put the clamp back into its collet (with the rear spacer piece again) and into a collet block on the mill, oriented with the scribed line roughly horizontal. I then milled about 8 mm off the top:

The finished clamp (after hand-filing some chamfers around the milled flat):

This is what it looks like when locked:

Half-a-turn anticlockwise and the dovetail guide can be easily removed:


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