When you don't have a work bench....

[Alchymist]

... and you need a vise. Bought this little York vise some time ago, but no place to mount it. Do mostly wood working, so table saw serves as the work bench. Anyway, needed a vise for light duty. (which the York is) and a way to use it. Dug out an old piece of cast iron 10" square by 1" thick, and bolted the vise down. Works a charm for light work. Shown holding a bracked ready for mutilation via cutoff disk.

 

[Larryjones]

Have you thought of bolting a pipe flange on the underside, adding a lenght of pipe and filling the bucket with concrete with a socket for the pipe? would be a little sturdier and still removable.

 

[Alchymist]

Mutilated and welded that bracket quite well using the vise as shown. While a bucket & pipe would work, this is real handy... carry it anywhere and when you set it down it stays put for all the light work I expect to put it to.

 

[2oolhound]

I see that's a New York vise.

I have an old york vise

You can always clamp the base down on the table saw deck if you needed more sticktion.
Necessity is the mother of invention.

 

[racingtadpole]

I'm curious as to what precision machine was dismembered to get the cast plate with a Bausch and Lomb label on it?

 

[MushCreek]

When I started building my barn out in the boonies, there was NOTHING to use for a work space! Have you ever tried to clamp something in the woods? I made a bracket for my 2" square receiver hitch on the van, and bolted a vise to it. I also built a picnic table so I'd have a place to sit, and a workbench of sorts. I kept the vise on the hitch adapter, though, as I could just pull the pin and throw the whole thing in the van, rather than out in the weather. It always makes me grit my teeth when I see a valuable Wilton vise bolted (or welded!) to the rear bumper of a state or county truck.

 

[Dirty Diesels]

Mount one to a Workmate foldable workbench, that's what I do!

 

[Alchymist]

I'm curious as to what precision machine was dismembered to get the cast plate with a Bausch and Lomb label on it?

Scrap microscope base.


Came in handy today needed a way to steady an angle iron frame to slice and dice:

 

[brooksdr]

Build a work bench! lol I realize that you might not have room. Good improvising!

 

[Alchymist]

Build a work bench! lol I realize that you might not have room. Good improvising!

It's called "field work"!