Handy man's workshop and laboratory . ,or knocking it to pieces to get it out of the shop.—3 A SOLID JOINT FOR THE WORKBENCH When constructing the bench for the Handy Mans Workshop,and it is desired to use the old but efficient screw-and-heel patternwoodworkers vise, the question of a suitable joint for the upperend of the front leg must be considered. The pressure appliedto narrow work, reaching not farther below the bench top thanits own thickness, tends to draw the front leg from position, andone soon finds he has a loose and rickety joint. None of the usual mortise or dovetail joints are s
Handy man's workshop and laboratory . ,or knocking it to pieces to get it out of the shop.—3 A SOLID JOINT FOR THE WORKBENCH When constructing the bench for the Handy Mans Workshop,and it is desired to use the old but efficient screw-and-heel patternwoodworkers vise, the question of a suitable joint for the upperend of the front leg must be considered. The pressure appliedto narrow work, reaching not farther below the bench top thanits own thickness, tends to draw the front leg from position, andone soon finds he has a loose and rickety joint. None of the usual mortise or dovetail joints are satisfactory, 12 HANDY MAN S WORKSHOP AND LABORATORY but the one shown below is very powerful and cannot be drawnfrom place. The detail drawing, Fig. 14, shows its constructionand proper proportions. rVfter the glue has set, two ^-inchwooden pins should be driven into the holes.—72 A JOINT THAT CAN BE TIGHTENED The joints of a workbench are quite sure to work loose intime, and it is important that they be constructed in such a way. Fig. 14—Solid joint for handy mans workbench that they may be tightened from time to time. The constructionshown in Fig. 15 is one that the writer has used with perfectsatisfaction for years. The frame of the bench is made of 2 by3-inch sticks. Sockets are cut in two adjoining faces of the postto receive the tongues formed on the horizontal sticks of theframe. The sockets are made deeper than the tongues, so as to HANDY MAN S WORKSHOP AND LABORATORY 13 permit of adjustment. A hole is bored through the post and endwise into one of the horizontal sticks through the tongue. A bolt is fitted into this bore and is screwed into a nut which is introduced into the stick through a transverse hole. In the same way the other stick is secured to the post, care being taken to have the second bolt hole at a different level so that it will clear the first one. The bolts can be drawn up very tightly, so as to make a firm joint. When the joint works loose it can
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