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7/14/2007 5:06:33 AM EDT
So you want to build your upper but dont have a vice nor place to install it...

This is a good idea for the less fortunate members that don't have a garage/shop or live in an apartment

Look at my kitchen aisle.


Look what happens when the wife is not home.


Every home must have a solid top like a kitchen aisle or fixed cabinet.  Mount the vice (5") with screws & nuts in a piece of wood like this (screw heads lay inside relieve holes so the bottom surface remains flat):


Solidly mount the whole fixture in the top with C clamps.


Easy!  This way I've built my 3 AR's and had done other few rail and bbl jobs for friends.  This fixture withstands much more than the required torque to tighten a bbl nut.  Just put a towel under the vice and the wife will never notice

This is an idea for a long gun maintenance station.  I did this "modular" stand with 6x1 and 4x1 white wood boards from Home Depot.  




The AR upper "fixture" is a Schuster MGF upper receiver holder screwed to a piece of 4x1 wood.


I use this stand for my AK's also and it will hold  for maintenance my IMI Galil AR soon

7/14/2007 5:21:39 AM EDT
[#1]
Nicely made stand there TD.  

If you have the opportunity, try one of the old Sierra bullet chart, counter covers from a gunshop. They have a hard slick surface that might work bettet than the towel.
7/14/2007 8:18:38 AM EDT
[#2]
Thanks for the tip, I will.
7/14/2007 10:58:45 AM EDT
[#3]
I would just use some kind of rubber mat that won't slide.

Very nice though.  
7/14/2007 4:27:01 PM EDT
[#4]
"Honey.  What happened to our 'good' towels?"  
7/14/2007 4:32:01 PM EDT
[#5]

Quoted:
I would just use some kind of rubber mat that won't slide.

Very nice though.  


Try the shelf liner found in the RV section at Wal-mart. It's a pretty good non-slip surface. A roll of it is only a few bucks.
7/14/2007 4:50:09 PM EDT
[#6]
Dude, your wife is going to kick your ass for messing up that towel.  
7/14/2007 5:19:58 PM EDT
[#7]
Pretty clever, but if you don't have a shop or garage.......how did you build that fancy well made maintenance stand.
7/14/2007 7:00:50 PM EDT
[#8]

Quoted:
Pretty clever, but if you don't have a shop or garage.......how did you build that fancy well made maintenance stand.


I have a drill press and a miter saw stored in a closet.  Believe me, I want to have my "space" but I live in a beach villa with an open garage.  For now this kitchen aisle is my gun bench.  
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