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Workbench: Owner’s Manual
05A01.01
Your Veritas
®
Workbench comes in a knock-down state
for shipping purposes. All required hardware is included
and holes for assembling it are predrilled. Assembly
should take only an hour or so.
The only tools that are needed are:
• Ratchet with
9
/
16
"
socket
• #3 Robertson
®
screwdriver (square drive)
• #2 Phillips screwdriver (cross drive)
• Hammer
Base Assembly
1. Remove the T-nuts from the levelling feet and drive
them into the holes in the lower rails with a hammer.
Install the levelling feet. (Note that these parts are in
the smaller box.)
2. Install one
3
/
8
"
flat washer and hex nut flush to one
end only of each of the truss rods. Slide the opposite
end of the truss rods all the way into each of the four
holes in one of the trestles, from the counterbored
side. Place the other trestle onto the exposed truss
rods (counterbored face out), and install one
3
/
8
"
flat
washer and hex nut flush with the ends of each of the
truss rods.
3. Place one stretcher (both contained in the larger box)
onto one pair of truss rods, as shown in
Figure 1
.
Using a ratchet fitted with a
9
/
16
"
socket, tighten the
hex nuts just enough to hold the stretcher in place.
Repeat for the other stretcher.
Note:
To prevent the truss rods from spinning until
tightened, a fl at screwdriver can be wedged between the
truss rods and the grooves in which they rest. Also, when
tightening the nuts, do so alternately from opposite ends
to keep the exposed rod ends approximately equal.
Trestle
Upper Rail
4) Place stretchers on
truss rods and tighten.
Stretcher
3) Install nuts, washers
and truss rods.
2) Screw levelling feet
into T-nuts.
1) Drive T-nuts
into holes.
Figure 1: Base assembly.
