Quick Mount Work Vice, Die Cast Aluminium, 68 x 17 x 21cm

This is the vice for a portable bench or a stand, where a fixed engineers vice bolted through the top is not an option. The quick action mounts snap into place in seconds, so the vice goes on when you need to hold something and comes off when the bench has to carry a machine instead.

The same mounting system takes benchtop tools, so the stand that carries this vice can also carry a mitre saw, a table saw, a drill press, a band saw or a thickness planer, and a router table attaches in seconds for routing and moulding work. That is what makes it useful to a carpenter or a metalworker who works out of a vehicle and sets up on site. The body is heavy duty die cast aluminium, which gives the stiffness needed to hold work against a saw or a chisel without the weight of a cast iron vice. It is 68cm across the mounting bar, 17cm deep and 21cm high, and the whole thing weighs 4.8kg, so it lifts in one hand and stores on a shelf.