Simple Workshop Devices

However well equipped the workshop may be there seems to be an incessant need to make up special gadgets of one sort or another. These may range from mutilating a clothes peg to act as a ‘third hand’ up to major modifications to an existing machine tool. The making of such devices can be fun (indeed, some may appear to do nothing else!) but nevertheless the time taken up in ‘devising the device’ can often delay the completion of an important project. Shared experience is a most potent tool in…