Including shipping, and assuming you order enough stuff to qualify for Super Saver shipping, Amazon has the best deal on the 4-pack of Black & Decker 79-010-4 Workmate Swivel Grip Pegs at $8.36.
These are the standard dogs that B&D includes with the Workmate, precisely the items that are almost always missing when you buy a [...]
Apparently available only at Woodcraft, the $90 Vika Quickbench is way less expensive than the $475 Festool MFT/3 (see TM 7/27/09), and 40% less than the $150 Vika Twofold™, but does it warrant a place in your shop or garage? It has a 32″ high, 30″ × 24″ work surface with a 24″ × 3½” [...]
“This’ll be a quick and easy post,” I thought. There I was out in the garage, preparing to cut a piece of angle iron. I put the metal-cutting blade in my reciprocating saw, clamped the angle iron in my trusty Workmate (the Deluxe Dual Height version, no less), grabbed my beat-up old tube of Johnson’s [...]
I bought my first Workmate (the classic cast aluminum frame type) at a garage sale at least 15 years ago. It was in relatively good shape with a plywood top. About a year ago I bought another used Workmate of a similar vintage that had one small difference… the top was particleboard instead of plywood. I [...]
I bought the Workmate II portable workbench back in 1989, and it held up well for almost twenty years, until I left it on the back porch for a few days and it got wet due to blowing rain. (Blowing rain is not the friend of the particle-board top.) On the hunt for a replacement [...]
Right-tool.com has the Black and Decker Workmate 225 on sale for $59. While not as heavy-duty as the WM425, nor as nice as the old Alloy Casting versions (we have two), it supports 450 pounds, clamps wood, and functions as a shop-tool stand — it’s just one of those all-time handy tools.
Workmate 225 [Right-tool.com]
Street Pricing [...]
We’re students of the old school when it comes to workbench design, so when we first saw Stanley’s Mobile Project Center we didn’t want to like it. We figured that a metal and plastic bench that stands high instead of wide wouldn’t last a week in the shop. We were wrong. Read on past the [...]
I cherry-picked a few deals from a recent Lowe’s sales flyer (forgive the photo-chop), with prices valid until 12/24. To see the full details of the sale, head over to Lowes.com and check out the “Weekly Ads”. Or click on the link below, and be sure to select the flyer that says “12/17″.
Included in the [...]
A small workbench is where most projects in the home shop start. Even if you’ve built yourself a beautiful big bench, smaller foldable units like the Black and Decker Workmate are often extremely handy to have around. The problem with most of the old orange-and-black standbys is that they’re heavy and a pain in the ass to [...]
We asked all you Toolmongers out there about a couple of products recently, and here’s what you told us:
Two Wheel Wheelbarrows: Hot.
Readers say the second wheel adds stability and load-carrying capacity, though two-wheelers don’t turn as tight.
Hand-Powered Drills: Hot.
This post conjured up readers’ memories of using hand-drills as children, and almost everyone agreed that not [...]
Remember old-school Toolmonger that was all young, dumb and full of… vigor? So do we. Check out what we were discussing a year ago this week:
Since we were tired of standing (and kneeling and squatting) around the shop – and we had a few tractor seats and broken office chairs lying around — we welded ‘em up into some [...]
I’ll go on record stating that I like my Workmate. I’ve discussed it plenty here on Toolmonger here already – and you can see it in a number of our test pictures — so I’ll spare you the repeat. What we want to know is what you think about the Workmate.
Is it too heavy for what it [...]
John writes: “This clamp-on power strip from Belkin would make a nice, easy addition to a set of sawhorses or a Workmate-like bench to keep power handy and keep cords off the ground.”
You can tell from their website that Belkin intends this for office use, but we agree with John — it looks like it’d [...]
Don’t have the scratch for Stanley’s Mobile Project Center or Black & Decker’s Workmate? That doesn’t mean you have to go without. While we certainly wouldn’t claim that Strong Arm’s on-the-cheap solution measures up to the quality of those famous brands, it’s a hell of a lot easier on the wallet.
When we first “previewed” Stanley’s FatMax Mobile Project Center – or the “MPC” as we like to call it – a number of you complained about the materials from which its made, speculating that it’s not sturdy enough for heavy use. So, we contacted Stanley with a challenge: offer up one for us to beat on.
They accepted [...]
We’ve got a Workmate in the shop, and we’ll be testing Stanley’s portable soon, but here’s another from Park Tool, who takes the low road by offering a simple workbench. It has no power, no bult-in clamps, and few accessories. It’s really targeted at the racing crowd who could use a small, portable work area [...]
Rob writes: “This is a Workmate-type folding workbench that also doubles as a hand truck. I have the B&D version which is ok but this one adds power outlets and looks like it might be a little more convenient to use (although I haven’t had a chance to actually try one. It still looks heavy [...]
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