Re: Home Brew Workstand?
- From: Mike Causer <mikec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:09:51 +0000
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:26:13 +0000, Doki wrote:
> Anyone made one? Commercial ones seem a bit expensive when you can get an
> engine stand for less...
I've made one, but it's not a conventional design. I'd already got a
strong steel workbench with a 3" vise bolted to it. The "stand" consists
of an aluminium tube, smaller in diameter than the seat tube and a little
bit longer, with the cap from a 35mm file canister on one end. The other
end has a heavy duty steel hydraulic fitting pushed into it and this goes
into the vice where the hydraulic fitting stops the tube being crushed.
The seat tube is taken off the bike and it is then upended onto the tube
where the BB axle sits on the film can top. It can be swung through about
300 degrees with _just_ enough clearance on the wall behind.
This wasn't really a design as such, just something that took ten minutes
to make using material already to hand. It's lasted 12 years though and
works fine.
OTOH for the 'bent I just upend it on the Workmate bench, but that PVC
pipe stand Dave Kahn mentioned looks very interesting.
Mike
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