How to set the vise correctly on the workbench? - Metals, equipment, instructions
do-it-yourself locksmith workbench
To work with metal, you need a special workplace; an ordinary table or stool is clearly not suitable for these purposes. Of course, making a locksmith's workbench with your own hands is not so easy, but it is quite possible. This article just gives examples of homemade designs with step-by-step photos.
What is a locksmith workbench? Ideally, this is a metal frame with a solid table top, boxes for storing tools and auxiliary equipment, first of all, we are talking about a vice, without which it is difficult to carry out any work. All this can be done independently, even in a vice, it is more difficult to decide where to put this workbench if you do not have a garage or a shed. However, this is another question.
A good example of how to make a locksmith's workbench with your own hands from scrap materials. The author used an old table and used metal boxes. It turned out to be a good table, moreover, mobile, thanks to the wheels attached to the lower frame.
It is clear that even a homemade table cannot be made for free at all, but the costs for metal blanks and paint are not that great if you look at how much a factory workbench costs.
Home station wagon
Houses are engaged in smaller, but painstaking technical creativity: soldering, modeling, watchmaking, artistic cutting from plywood, etc. A universal workbench is suitable for fine fine work, the drawings of which and accessories are given in Fig. The durability of the working surface and its vibration absorption in this case are not as important as evenness, smoothness and some adhesion ("stickiness" of parts), therefore the tabletop is covered with linoleum. Locksmith vices for this workbench need small ones, with screw clamping.
Versatile home workbench
More about plywood
In general, it is undesirable to work with metal "roughly" on plywood, because she “calls back” well. If the pillow of the plank workbench is still made of plywood, then a frame (framing) must be glued to its underside, also made of plywood, on the PVA, see fig. Then it is advisable to first cover the upper (working side) with linoleum without lining, and then lay steel on it.
Making a bench board from plywood
Garage workbench
It is impossible to make the workbench in the garage optimal in terms of the ergonomics of the workplace - the dimensions of a standard box of 4x7 m with a car standing in it do not allow. For a long time already, by trial and error, the width of the garage workbench was determined at 510 mm: it is quite convenient to turn between it and the hood, and it is more or less possible to work. A narrow workbench under a heavy load (for example, a motor taken out for bulkhead) turns out to be unstable, so it is made attached to the wall. Often - angular, this increases stability, but any wall-mounted workbench "calls back" stronger than a workbench-table of the same design
Wall Mounted Garage Workbench
A diagram of the device of one section of a garage workbench is given in Fig. In this design, an ingenious method of additional damping of vibrations is used: the cells of the frames of the cover and the bottom shelf of the edge far from the corner of different sizes. Accuracy of installation of crossbars +/– 1 cm. For the same purpose, the cover and bottom shelf are made of laminated chipboard 32 mm thick and covered with linoleum instead of steel. For garage work, its durability is sufficient; can be easily replaced.
Fastening to walls - self-tapping screws from 8 mm or bolts from M8 with a pitch of 250-350 mm. Depth into a stone wall 70-80 mm; in wood 120-130 mm.Propylene dowels are placed under the self-tapping screws in the stone wall; for bolts - collet anchors.
More for the garage
Another version of the garage workbench is already wall-mounted, and wall-mounted, on the left in Fig. It can only be mounted on stone walls. 2-layer folding workbench; each layer of plywood 10-12 mm. Opening for a machine with a stepped inner edge. In this case, a "milling cutter" means a mini-drilling machine with a movable rotary table and a clamp for the part. The design is convenient in that the chips are poured directly onto the floor.
Wall Mounted Garage Workbench and Mini Workbench Cabinet
If your car is something like Daewoo or Chery with a 3-cylinder engine, and the garage is very small, then you can put a folding mini workbench-cabinet with a lifting table in it, on the right in the figure; it is also suitable for fine work in the house (electronics, precision mechanics). The table top is suspended on a piano hinge, the legs are on cards. For folding, the legs are tucked under the table top (it would be useful to tie them with a prong), and the table top is lowered.
