Comments on: Cheap-Ass Tools: Strong Arm’s $20 Clamping Table http://toolmonger.com/2007/04/26/cheap-ass-tools-strong-arms-20-clamping-table/ All tools. All the time. Your source for news, information, and reviews of hand tools, power tools, and tools of all kinds. Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:01:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Freddie http://toolmonger.com/2007/04/26/cheap-ass-tools-strong-arms-20-clamping-table/#comment-59453 Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:29:37 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/04/26/cheap-ass-tools-strong-arms-20-clamping-table/#comment-59453 Looks OK. Does it move around much when you use it? Looks OK.
Does it move around much when you use it?

]]> by: KB http://toolmonger.com/2007/04/26/cheap-ass-tools-strong-arms-20-clamping-table/#comment-57857 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:08:19 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/04/26/cheap-ass-tools-strong-arms-20-clamping-table/#comment-57857 I just bought two of these this week at Menard's for $10 each with the Tool Shop brand name on them. I know they are cheap, but I was actually pretty impressed. I picked mine up for use with the bench top tools out in the 'field' so to speak. I was tired of the scrollsaw on the floor when redoing the floating wood floor in the house and this was a lot cheaper and easier to carry up the stairs than the regular fixed metal bases. My small 10" bandsaw gets the other one. Take the bolts off, fold up the table and into the car it goes. I just bought two of these this week at Menard’s for $10 each with the Tool Shop brand name on them. I know they are cheap, but I was actually pretty impressed. I picked mine up for use with the bench top tools out in the ‘field’ so to speak. I was tired of the scrollsaw on the floor when redoing the floating wood floor in the house and this was a lot cheaper and easier to carry up the stairs than the regular fixed metal bases. My small 10″ bandsaw gets the other one. Take the bolts off, fold up the table and into the car it goes.

]]> by: Daniel Rutter http://toolmonger.com/2007/04/26/cheap-ass-tools-strong-arms-20-clamping-table/#comment-57418 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:59:22 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/04/26/cheap-ass-tools-strong-arms-20-clamping-table/#comment-57418 This is a generic Chinese product that's available under umpteen names. Mine, which seems to be exactly the same thing and which I bought maybe 15 years ago for $notmuch, just has FOLDING WORKBENCH on the logo sticker, presumably in case you forget what it is. For the money, it's a surprisingly good product. It's also quite lightweight, and small enough to set up almost anywhere. (That, of course, means that it's also not much use if you're working with big hunks of wood. If you had two tables, though, you might be able to work with surprisingly large planks.) This is a generic Chinese product that’s available under umpteen names. Mine, which seems to be exactly the same thing and which I bought maybe 15 years ago for $notmuch, just has FOLDING WORKBENCH on the logo sticker, presumably in case you forget what it is.

For the money, it’s a surprisingly good product. It’s also quite lightweight, and small enough to set up almost anywhere.

(That, of course, means that it’s also not much use if you’re working with big hunks of wood. If you had two tables, though, you might be able to work with surprisingly large planks.)

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