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dusty wrote:I don't know, for certain, how many different companies have participated in the manufacture of the Mark Vs.

The number is really not important. The question is - Do all of the tables manufactured by all of these companies meet the same dimensional specifications?

Could the problem that started this thread be that some extension tables are not the same size as others?

Another clue!
Measuring the underside of the auxiliary tables to cut fillers, noticed yet another anomaly between the three tables. At first glance all three look quite similar. On closer examination they are not exactly the same size, and of course the rail tubes are different size than the Main.
But get this-- one of the three Aux's is NOT tapped for use as an Extension table!
.............
[and the tables still don't line up. I'm just tired of this. I now (again) have a very expensive workbench on wheels.]

keakap wrote:Another clue!
Measuring the underside of the auxiliary tables to cut fillers, noticed yet another anomaly between the three tables. At first glance all three look quite similar. On closer examination they are not exactly the same size, and of course the rail tubes are different size than the Main.
But get this-- one of the three Aux's is NOT tapped for use as an Extension table!
.............
[and the tables still don't line up. I'm just tired of this. I now (again) have a very expensive workbench on wheels.]

That is not unusual. None of my tables that were purchased as floating tables are tapped. There are holes there that can be tapped and fitted with threaded studs but they are not threaded (unless I threaded them).