Slap a bit of creosote on it and you're good to go:
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Theo
New 'Workmate' recomendations please
Apr 02, 2019
Last reply: 7 years ago
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Yes, there are loads of suppliers. I just chose the link to Ryobi as I thought it more likely to remain the same for a while than many others.
SteveW
... and several zeroes.
NT
I have two of these and they are very good. If you can find a UK supplier.
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Bill
That'd be Toolstation then :) Thanks for the frther recomendation though.
Similar to my old B&D and the current B&D WM536 except that its bamboo rather than covered MDF. Thanks.
I quite like the "dual height" workmates. Strong, light, nicely finished (no sharp edges).
But depending on what sort of stuff you do, another option might be to get a pair of the cheaper single height ones (all much the same imho).
With a pair, it's easy to support a whole 8x4 sheet if you need to cut it up. Also, a pair can be used with a scaffold plank to make a working platform for limited height work outdoors, or for indoors if you have a Victorian house with ten or 12 foot ceilings.
Yes, that's what I had and what the 536 is.
Agreed on 'much the same' but I've already got something for the purpose they would serve....
Well our Paul got them, and I don't know where from. But they're a massive improvement on the B & D ones.
Bill
I usually just chuck a few bits of 2x2 or similar on the floor to support 8x4 sheets when I chop them up.
Too much bending for me!
:-)
I get a bad back just doing the washing up so slinging a big board and a circular saw around is going to be painful and difficult no matter how I approach it. It takes me sooo much longer to do stuff than it did when I was young and fit and not so damaged.
Thats the one Ioolstation do them.
Me too.
You probably want to pop into lidl and pick up one or two of their straight edge clamps to use as saw guides then.
Mind you I think the handle was a bit long for 2x2.
Somehow I think coming down from a folding workbench to a bit of an old pallet with no legs & a vice screwed to one corner might be seen as a retrograde step... HTH
Re-read required...
With no legs?? :-D
Jim isn't having much trouble imagining the "concept" :-D
Or armchair experts crawling around on the floor using their legless ex part pallet workbenches & thinking "why aren't they all like this!"
Bwahahahaha!
Somewhere to put your foot maybe? ;-)
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