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Making wobbly 6x4’ table stable
One word: diagonals. More lightly built workbenches are often a bit wobbly, but adding diagonal bracing to any such design instantly yields a big improvement in stability. The reason is that there's a ...
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Making wobbly 6x4’ table stable
This isn't doing you much good:
The braces can just turn around the screw. You really need two screws for them to do anything.
Like this:
You could also switch to diagonal braces.
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