Portable Workbench Build Process

3/4/2021

With that done, there was nothing left to do but assemble everything. First the moving jaws, screws and mechanisms were fitted (this was much, much easier with the lids removed):

The lids could then be fitted, using a pair of tweezers to push the hidden screws into the right place:

I then fitted four bench dogs into the top (to raise it off the surface of my bench when upside down) and flipped everything over. The buttons could then be fitted:

Here's a view of the vice jaws for the standard vice:

Here are the vice jaws for the dual-screw vice:

This is a quick test of a rather extreme taper. This is way beyond the limits of the off-the-shelf spherical seating washers (as you can see by the way the washers aren't seating against the slotted bushes), but it clamped the stock extremely rigidly. I doubt I'll ever use it for something this extreme!

Although it was always bound to work, this is a quick test of clamping long stock vertically:

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