Heavy Duty Workbenches — Malaysia

A heavy duty bench earns the name at the frame, not the top. These are rated to 2,000kg on the Steel Top and Heavy Duty lines — the load at which a lighter frame stops springing back and takes a permanent lean.

That matters where the bench carries a vise, an arbor press or an engine component rather than an assembly job. The failure is not dramatic: the top goes half a degree out of flat, and from then on everything clamped to it is half a degree out too.

Ratings below are the published Tanko figures, not estimates. Where a line shows 600kg it is a Professional-class frame; 2,000kg is the Heavy Duty and Steel Top construction.