Bolted to Workbench!<\/i><\/p>\n
Even though I went to Home Depot, where everything is hidden or out of stock, I found some lag shields and a two-by-six, and I came home and got to work sticking them in my workbench. At the store, I looked at the package, and it called for 5\/8″ holes. I figured I had to have a 5\/8″ spade bit at home, so I didn’t buy one.<\/p>\n
Guess what? It turns out a foot-long 5\/8″ masonry bit makes a fine spade bit in a pinch. I already had half-inch holes opened up, and the masonry bit did a swell job of enlarging them.<\/p>\n
The lag shields worked like a charm. Thanks, Ed. The press is firmly attached to the table. I’m a little concerned about how they’ll hold up when I move the press on and off the bench, but I got some spares, so I don’t care.<\/p>\n
Incidentally, let’s have a round of applause for Ridgid power tools. They have a lifetime warranty on a bunch of their stuff. Unfortunately, if you throw out the box before applying, you lose the UPC code you’re supposed to send in, in order to qualify. I lost one or both of the UPC labels for my tools (miter saw and table saw), and I contacted Ridgid to see if I could work something out. Today they emailed me and said they had upgraded me to lifetime warranty status on both tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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