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Leland,
You really do ignore those closed bolt hole locations.
IIRC, I used qty 2 of 3/8″ x 4″ lags and washers in the rear/underside of the vise (mine is an Eclipse, but nearly identical to yours) and some of the extremely long screws commonly used in timber framing and log home construction for the jaw face screw locations. The width of the bench top is an excellent opportunity to use the timber framing screws. My vise is solid as a rock!
The relevant blog posts that Wesley mentioned can be found here: https://paulsellers.com/2012/06/making-the-workbench-15/
and another here:
https://paulsellers.com/2016/06/bench-vise-part-ii/
As a side note, I used timber framing fasteners in all relevant locations of my workbench. They seem to me to be more solid than common decking screws and lags due to their depth of bite and ability to tie everything together at a negligible additional cost considering the quantity required to build a workbench or mount a vise.
- This reply was modified 7 years ago by Arthur Coates.
- This reply was modified 7 years ago by Arthur Coates.