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Shop tips
"Tips" sounds a little pretentious, like I'm about to tell you guys how
to do things. What this is, is a couple of things that I've tried and have worked well, so I'll sha - drill press key. Even though I had a special place for it (a hole drilled in the top of the belt cover), I was always setting it down somewhere else and then wondering where-the-hell it was. My solution was to put it on a leash - a spring-loaded, retracting leash: http://home.comcast.net/~bobengelhardt/dpkey.jpg It's always there, and it always goes back to its place by itself! - drill press vise. I rarely clamp work to the drill press table and even more rarely do I clamp the drill press vise to the table. It is such a nuisance bolting it through the table slots and getting it adjusted. The easier way that I found was to mount the vise to a plate, which can be easily clamped and adjusted: http://home.comcast.net/~bobengelhardt/dpvise.jpg The vise is mounted with studs welded to the plate. - task light. Bench work sometimes requires much brighter light. I've tried various forms which either didn't reach far enough, or didn't stay in place, etc. I cobbled together this one from the junk pile: http://home.comcast.net/~bobengelhardt/light.jpg The lamp is a 50w mini halogen, the "silver" shaft is a goose neck, and the mount is a locking ball joint, which works *really* well. Highly adjustable, long reach, stays put, and swings out of the way when not is use. - bench vise. My bench is fairly high (38") and with the vise on top, the vise jaws were really too high. So I mounted the vise outboard and lower: http://home.comcast.net/~bobengelhardt/vise.jpg It's not obvious from the picture, but the top of the jaws is just below the bench top, so the whole bench top is unobstructed. And it doesn't show the angle iron that goes back and attaches it to the wall. I also took off those damned t-handle swivel-tightening nuts and replaced them with hex nuts. It's much easier & faster to put a socket on them than to fiddle with those t-handles. - wrenches. Commonly used wrenches should be readily available and readily identifiable. I hang my most-used box and combo wrenches, in size order. They are hung on 2 panels, one for SAE, the other for metric. The front panel is hinged like a door: http://home.comcast.net/~bobengelhardt/wrenches.jpg Bob |
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