Customer Rating:  
Summary: Don't waste your money
Comment: I picked one up last year, and it broke on it's first use. Unbelievable that it uses hard plastic parts in it's clamping. They won't last five minutes.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Get past the poor quality and make it work.
Comment: On occasion, I will assemble things in the house. Furniture, toys, Christmas trees; I fix everything in the house from toys to outlets to the boiler (not really). I see all kinds of build quality, and this is an exemplary instance of great design poorly implemented.
My neighbor has a twenty-year old version of this, in the 550-lb capacity size. Durable, solid, and well-used. He lent it to me when I was building my firewood rack this summer, and it made the job easy. I immediately told my wife, "This is all I want for Christmas".
Well, I got more than this, but I did get it, a 350-lb version from a big box. I had some molding to install, so I decided I'd take ten minutes to assemble it and see if I could use it.
A half-hour later, I discovered it would not open wide enough to fit the miter box and hold it between the boards. I could have used the plastic stoppers, but one of the legs was broken on shipment. And, I was already frustrated with the assembly process.
The instruction pictures are too small. Skip the four languages of useless text, just ship bigger pictures next time. I did figure out which cross plate went where, after doing it wrong. And the edges and bends of the metal were not clean or precisely angled on one side. In short, a cheap and poorly-made version of a well-designed tool.
I'll use it, and make it work, but I have little expectations of it lasting very long. Twenty years might be out of the question. Still, if it helps me on my 2009 projects, it'll be well worth it. And I still appreciate the gift!
-C
Customer Rating:
Summary: Ain't what it used to be???
Comment: It seems the reviewers who have had this work beanch for years love it. The disappointed customers are those of us who purchased it recently. I bought two recently at a sale plus rebate that brought the price down to $10 each, primarily to use as saw horses. They seem to be ok for that purpose, but I was very disappointed with the quality.
When I went to assemble the first one, it was excruciatingly slow because, although the process is not complicated, the instructions are poorly written and printed in type so small as to be unreadable even with a magnifying glass. I finally had to find the tech doc at B & D's website, enlarge it and print it to begin to decipher it.
Well, I figure the second one would be a piece of cake. Wrong! The parts were so poorly matched and out of alignment that I spent hours putting two screws in place, and finally had to force the pieces into alignment with c-clamps and a hammer. Absurd.
Finally, with libertal application of WD40 I have two folding saw horses that are probable woth $10 each, but certainly not full reatil.
I don't think I have to tell you where it was made. Deosn't anyone in the Free World make stuff anymore?
Customer Rating:
Summary: outstanding
Comment: I got what I ordered , I got it fast, and I got it cheaper. an exceptional pleasing experience.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great portable stand
Comment: I have used this stand for about a year on many jobsites in a variety of ways e.g. clamping,miter stand, table saw stand, etc. If you looking for light weight stand that gives solid performance.
David
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