Dangermouse.
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If a bench is built right, you rarely need cross bracing.
Small workbench moves too much,does a vacuum solution exist?
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woodbrains
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Hello,
If a bench, (or bridge or pylon or tower) is built properly, it WILL include cross bracing, whether it looks like it has it or not, if a structure is to use the minimum amount of material for the strongest outcome, the triangle will be incorporated somewhere. It is a basic engineering principal. If you are going to go to the trouble of building a bench, leaving them out is likely to lead to disappointment, and for the sake of what, exactly? A couple of bits of wood. Otherwise fit a board over the entire back, which amounts to the same thing as a brace. You can link as many rectangles together as you like, but you will not stop racking, unless, of course, you build a bench like mine, which is so massive, with enormous pegged through tenons, it doesn't matter. For a small, lightweight bench, the diagram I posted is perfect.
Mike.
If a bench, (or bridge or pylon or tower) is built properly, it WILL include cross bracing, whether it looks like it has it or not, if a structure is to use the minimum amount of material for the strongest outcome, the triangle will be incorporated somewhere. It is a basic engineering principal. If you are going to go to the trouble of building a bench, leaving them out is likely to lead to disappointment, and for the sake of what, exactly? A couple of bits of wood. Otherwise fit a board over the entire back, which amounts to the same thing as a brace. You can link as many rectangles together as you like, but you will not stop racking, unless, of course, you build a bench like mine, which is so massive, with enormous pegged through tenons, it doesn't matter. For a small, lightweight bench, the diagram I posted is perfect.
Mike.
Dangermouse.
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Yes oh omnipotent one.................. 
Fat ferret
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Build a wee workbench mate, life's too short to chase workmates around the place. I have one 2ft x 3ft I built from old floor joists when I was renovating my house, small so you could cart it from room to room. Tools live on the shelf below in their boxes.
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