[6250] in APO Printshop
Re: Vice on table
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charley Hamilton)
Wed Jan 26 22:59:36 2011
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64L.1101260253340.11576@byte-me.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:59:33 -0800
From: Charley Hamilton <charley.hamilton@gmail.com>
To: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@mit.edu>
Cc: Catherine Olsson <catherio@mit.edu>,
"Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.mit.edu>, apo-printshop@mit.edu,
rhkeeler@mit.edu
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@mit.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Folding table we can store in the printshop, maybe near the Dexion's
> usual home? =A0That would be a little less high than the existing
> table, but mostly satisfies the height need. =A0It satisfies the
> working room need because you can take it out and place it wherever
> you want to work. =A0It does not satisfy the thickness or sturdiness
> goals, but we could perhaps get an additional piece of wood about
> the same dimension as the folding table's top, stored in the same
> place, that can be put on top of it when you want to use the vice
> to thicken and reinforce it.
>
> This table could potentially find other uses, too - maybe for
> ironing silkscreened shirts in the office.
>
> Mitch
Regarding mounting of bench vises, I have a 6" jaw vise mounted in my
garage on a home-built workbench. The workbench weighs in excess of
600# (including all of the misc tools inside) and I still manage to
tip it occasionally when working with the vise. Any "tabletop"
solution would need to have adequate mass to resist uplift/overturning
while using the vise.
Is there a location in the APOffice where the vise could be mounted to
a wall? How averse are folks to discussing placement of a 2-3 epoxy
anchors into the CMU walls with Phys Plant? I can probably work up a
design (being an structural engineer comes in handy that way) that
could resist the necessary design forces if the Press Shop and Exec
Comm can agree on a home.
If the masonry wall is grouted (Phys Plant's structural drawings and a
1C or Phys Plant engineer to read them could answer this), it could
even be done with something like a Simpson Titen HD anchor. That
would only require drilling the holes in the masonry, and driving the
screw anchor in place. APO could rent the hardware to do the install
(Hilti rotary hammer drill and an impact driver) from Home Depot's
rental department, and the whole thing would be removable (unlike an
epoxy anchor, which would need to be cut off flush) if the APOffice
ever moves.
If this is of interest, and somebody can give me a description of the
vise and what it is used for, I could back-of-the envelope a
wall-mounted solution that APO could price. That way, Exec Comm and
the Press Shop could consider cost in their decision.
YiLFS,
Charley
