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Workshop (5)

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次回この記事の日本語版を投稿します。

As mentioned in Workshop I have moved and I am in the long process of getting settled in.  In Workshop (1) I gave the workshop a heart by restoring on old bicycle shop clock.  In Workshop (2) I gave the workshop a torso by building a workbench.  In Workshop (3),  I gave the workshop extremities in the form of tools, and, in Workshop (4) I gave the workshop a right hand by adding a Blacksmith vise. In this installment the workshop will receive a left hand.

The left hand, like the right hand, is also a vise designed specifically for bicycle shops and is known in the bicycle industry as a frame or pipe vise.
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Left side has two holes.
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Top has two holes.
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Right side has a single hole.
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Here is the back half of the vise.  The grooves allow the frame to be held vertically, horizontally or diagonally.
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Below is a similar vise taken from a Hataya catalog.
(Refer to Workshop (3) for more on Hataya)
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Here we see the mating surface, the back half on the left and the front half on the right.
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Frame held horizontally.
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Frame held vertically.
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Frame held diagonally (right side up).
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Frame held diagonally (upside down).
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And there they are, the left and right hands on the workbench.
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