I don't yet do enough electronics work to justify getting one of these, but that is really cool! Amazed by the weight those things hold. Seems much better than my puny Radioshack arms.
If you can build a heavy-duty vice and this combined, I might be quite interested :-).
You mean something like this?
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.instructables.com%2FFDY%2FJQ6F%2FF7PCOWIZ%2FFDYJQ6FF7PCOWIZ.LARGE.jpg&t=665&c=8ILh6z2_PY2mnQ)
It is a neat addition for sure, just not something I needed....yet!
I actually threw my radioshack arms in the trash as I was just tired of clamping it to my workbench.
Haha! That's awesome!
Unfortunately, I need a bit more clamping force than that. More like this, but with those gator-tentacle like things. I'm pretty sure it's a bit infeasible and may not even be a good combination, though :-P.
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.nikhil.co.in%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2FWorkshopBenchVice_Full.jpg&t=665&c=bmYKNRPbBqQWZA)
Something that can hold a 30lb motorcycle crank in place while I drill it. Current vice is much too small... I had 30lbs of death spinning offcenter on my drill for a moment. It was pretty scary.
This is my current setup. Magnets are for catching steel fragments when drilling. At least I did finish the job yesterday!.
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FqZPECm.jpg&t=665&c=KihFXlJ9X_ilgQ)