Portable Workbench Build Process

20/3/2021

The threaded sleeve was then mounted in a collet block on the milling machine and two holes were spotted and drilled. These will be used with an angle-grinder style pin spanner to tighten the sleeve onto the threaded rod.

Similarly, I mounted the washer in the mill vice and milled a couple of flats:

These are all the parts that make up the bearing for the standard vice:

Here they are mounted onto a bit of threaded rod to show how they fit together - in this set-up, the brass part can spin freely.

This is what they look like in the moving jaw - the brass part will be glued into the moving jaw but the other parts will be free to rotate.

Here you can see the pin spanner holes in the threaded sleeve and where they'll sit on the inside face of the moving jaw. The face of the threaded sleeve is slightly below the surface of the beech.

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