You are obviously a guardian angel ! the Black and Decker assembly instructions had me close to suicidal . I'm a retired Blacksmith of 50 years and instructed nationally for a government organisation for three years in the 1970's before going into self employed status. Prior to that I had worked in a factory making centrifuge machines for scientific and industrial purposes and prior to that several years as a motor engineer with credit and distinction City and Guilds exam results, but nothing in my 74 years of this wonderful life prepared me for the Black and Decker instruction leaflet. I award the perpetrator of such a document the chained anvil secured to you neck or feet and to be dropped in the deepest part of the ocean! Thank you Mrs T's Top Tips for relieving my total frustration and extending my life. God Bless you.
As per other comments, you’re an absolute star Mrs T! This is such a helpful video, since, as you point out, the assembly instructions from Black & Decker are next to useless. Your video saves a lot of stress & frustration, very many thanks! 👍🏻
I got this as a gift to assist with my wiid craft. I made the mistake of looking at the instructions and thinking it was hopeless. Then after a month I came across you on Utube and clarity came shining through. I had it together in no time. Thank you so much.
Absolutely fantastic video. I was feeling quite dumb because I couldn't figure out the instruction manual. For example, there's no mention of removing the original white plastics to then hammer the (incredibly difficult) metal pins/rods/whatever. Hugely appreciated that you clarified it!
I agree , the supplied instructions were terrible. I received my 550 this morning and spent a frustrating couple of hours trying to assemble the unit. So glad i stumbled over your video. Big Thanks !!!
Forewarned by Amazon comments that the instructions were um, less than useful, I went straight to RUclips and this excellent video. Heartfelt thanks for immaculately clear assembly instructions from another grateful DIY-er!
Even after 3 years, this video is still so useful. Awesome guide. Bought one that arrived today. Gonna assemble tomorrow. Not even gonna look at the manual. This vid is all I need. Thanks you :))
Mrs T you are an absolute star! I had an old B&D Workmate so I knew what it ought to look like but I couldn't make it work. It's amazing that such a well--established company could sell something with such useless instructions. Thanks again.
Thank you for such a simple explanation of the assembly. I thought half the parts were missing or it was meant to come more assembled than it was! The instructions are totally inadequate, thanks for deciphering them and getting us going.
Absolutely brilliant, thank you! I don’t know what I’d have done without your video. The instructions that came with it were terrible. Once again, thank you very much.
Thanks Mrs T. I'm 30 years a DIYer and wanted to replace my worn out (but far more robust) B&D workmate. It's amazing that they get away with such pathetic instructions. Found your helpful video after 20mins fiddling about!
I too have purchased this same model and like so many other's, have finished up nearly banging our head's on a brick wall as the instruction manual lack's any form of description as to how to assemble this unit. It's thanks to you Mrs T with your video and description have settled this. You should be called 'Wonder Woman' and deserve a Gold Medal from all of us.
Thanks Mrs T I have just bought a WM536 fairly similar. Without your help it would have taken me a long time to work out. Your video really helped me set it up and the very clear descriptions of the parts and the crucial differences between the 2 sorts of black oblongs was most useful.
Thank you, Mrs T! Without your video, I would not have managed to assemble the B&D workmate! I was totally lost by the B&D instruction manual as it omits the most difficult steps: assembling the wooden panels. You saved me hours and nerves. Greetings from Germany!
I wish I'd seen this before I tried to assemble this thing. The instructions I got had even less in them than tje ones you are showing there. This is a great video thanks!
Useful.... is the most severe understatement.... thanks Mrs T..... these manufacturers instructions should win an award for being quite possibly the most useless instructions ever.... you’re a godsend 👍🏻
I have just spent all afternoon putting mine together, getting very frustrated and angry due to the totally useless instructions provided. I eventually got it together, and then found the RUclips instructions. If only I’d found this first, you explained it extremely well. Thank you
I received my workbench this morning and was despairing... then turned to RUclips and lo and behold: this clear and straightforward video. Thank you so much, it has certainly saved me several hours of frustration and swearing at the utterly unhelpful instructions. Now I can enjoy my morning making something else!
Thank you! didn't even bother to read the instructions after reading all the reviews of the workmate. Just watched your video immediately after buying the workmate. Great video.
Thank you very much for taking the time to do this. Like you say, not difficult but the instructions are so useless that you wouldn't know how to do it unless you'd owned one before!
Fantastic. Thank you for saving me a couple of hours figuring this out. The simples5 of tasks when you see how it’s done. Shocking instructions from B&D.
Felicity you are an angel. As you say the instructions are worse than useless but you have reduced everything into simplistic terms that even I can understand...well done
Wonderful I was reading the destruction booklet and had no idea, but with your clear presentation it all became quite easy, thank you for explaining the black bits I had no clue as to how they worked. Right. Time to go saw some wood.
Thank you so much! As you said, the included instructions were useless. I’ve done Legos for years and this was far trickier. Your help was much appreciated. 👍🏻😀👍🏻
Bought one of these for a good friend of mine, I live 300 miles away and this film seems to explain everything, emailing this immediately - thank you & VBW!
This bench has been sitting in a corner for over a year as I could not get the instructions. Thanks to you, in less than 10 minutes, it was put together. Thanks so much !!!
Mrs T saves the day, no wonder black and decker have removed comments on this product. Absolute pain in the ass to set up with the manufacturer’s manual, so yeah mrs T shows how it’s done 👌
Brilliant, easy to follow instructions. Thank you. Before I bought this I had read that the instructions were not great. Having seen them I then went straight to internet and found your video.. all done in 10 minutes. Thank you very much!
Thank you! I saw the warnings on the manual when buying this and thought “Nah, it’ll be alright”. Oh my word... without this video I would have had a very bad day...
First sorry for my english. Second• Thank you VERY much for this video! I was absolutly lost with only the manual. Thanks to your greate and useful instruction I have made it.
After watching your helpful video I set to it and finished in ten minutes. Instead of a hammer I squeezed those pesky C pins into the winders with mole grips and some WD40. Now all I need to do is work out how to disarm the parallel drive belt. %) Many thanks for posting the vid.
Mrs T you are wonderful Hubby's old one finely died after at least 30 years and it has taken us ages even with your help to get this one done. Without your help there might have been a murder. Thanks such clear instructions
Looked at this video to clarify where possible the instructions as given by B&D, which are a little vague. Many thanks for the video on this, made the larger wood jaw much easier & understand and then use on projects in future. Video lighting and focus were very good in the instructions - cheeers !!
Thank you 👍🙂👍.. excellent .. went ( nearly 🤫😃 ) smoothly putting mine up.. just got the handles left to do ( tommorow🤔😃) .. but ain’t daunting , after watching you’re fab , well explained and demonstrated assembly .. I never even had to read the instruction assembly manual ..yay 👍🙂👍.. thank you 👍🤗👍
Bless you my dear you made me laugh this morning and I wasn't feeling well. It's good that you have a great interest in engineering. And you made me laugh when you said it's easy if you know what to do 😂 100% agree with you. Keep up the good work. ❤
I am grateful to you for your explanation, and to B&D for their packaging, held together by long copper staples, which I was able to use to attach the handles, instead of the cotter pins supplied, which I was unable to hammer through the holes.
Thanks! You’re a star….saved me a couple of hours swearing at the instruction booklet!!!! Really clear instruction, Black and Decker should pay you!!!!!
Thank you for your effort. I was searching for instructions on inserting the steel C pin into the winding handle, I'm glad to see that it is as difficult as I found it and I wasn't being dense. In July 2017 B&D published their own audio-less assembly video, showing how the black plastic oblong are used. However, your video is far more helpful. So, 3 years and 5 months since your video was published, my WM825 arrived today and the printed instructions today are just as useless as you describe back in 2017. Come on B&D how hard is it to update these instructions. Also Black & Decker if you're reading this then I think you should sponsor Mrs T's Top tips channel, as a thank you to her. Since, she's saved you sales, if you read a few comments here, customers were considering returning their workbench, due to the lack of out-of-the-box instructions.
I've been in and around workshops since 1970 and I've never seen such c**p instructions as those that come with the WM825 - thanks to Mrs T it goes from a head-scratching marathon to a 5-minute job to assemble this. Many, many thanks!
You did well thank you. I fumbled my way through assembling my workmate earlier today. The B&D instructions are good for only one thing, but I prefer Wet Wipes. Your presentation was 1st Class👍👍
Thank you, your explanations are very clear (even when we do not understand very well English). The assembly instructions are so bad, I would never have managed to assemble it without this video
What a wonderful video! Thank you so much! The instructions in the box are indeed hopeless and the layman's language (long screwy thing!) I adored. This saved me so much bad language and guesswork.
Looked at this video before buying and thought the comments were just a load of angry people who can't follow basic instructions but when I opened the instructions I realised you were all correct and it's B & D that are the total idiots. I toyed with the idea that the white plastic bits needed to come off before putting on the handles but thought, no, B & D must know what they're doing . . . please B & D, go to China, ask people, ask schoolchildren, ask IKEA, how to write out visual instructions, and then include them instead of the rubbish you provide. Like everyone else I'm very grateful you Mrs T, have taken the time to produce this for us!
Well i was getting myself stressed as the instructions are the worst i have ever seen, but thank you so much for doing this video as it made it so clear and i got it together in no time Thanks again Mrs T
Thank you for making this video! I was a bit apprehensive about buying this workbench after eating Amazon reviews about how hard it is to assemble but with your guidance even a newbie like me could assemble it. Black&Decker should hire you to make their instructional videos!
Thanks very much for your explaintion. You helped me to put it together. Very helpfull indeed!!! Manual was very incomplete and not at all clear. Again thank you from Holland.
This is brilliant. The supplied ‘instructions’ are totally inadequate , with stages omitted. I was about to pack it up and return it until I found this video. Thank you.
You are obviously a guardian angel ! the Black and Decker assembly instructions had me close to suicidal . I'm a retired Blacksmith of 50 years and instructed nationally for a government organisation for three years in the 1970's before going into self employed status. Prior to that I had worked in a factory making centrifuge machines for scientific and industrial purposes and prior to that several years as a motor engineer with credit and distinction City and Guilds exam results, but nothing in my 74 years of this wonderful life prepared me for the Black and Decker instruction leaflet. I award the perpetrator of such a document the chained anvil secured to you neck or feet and to be dropped in the deepest part of the ocean! Thank you Mrs T's Top Tips for relieving my total frustration and extending my life. God Bless you.
Brilliant instructions - I'm a freelance engineer & I've seldom seen anything explained in a more succinct manner.
Thank you😊
So simple. If only the B&D destructions were that clear. Cheers Mrs T!
Life saver. Instructions that come with the workmate are of the chocolate tea pot variety. Well done, thank you
Fabulous presentation. Without this I've been lost in the worst manual ever.
Greetings from Norway
Thanks Ms.T. 5 minutes ago I literally said the instructions are beyond useless, and here I am. Good stuff
You safed my day and prevented me from doing harm to this piece and myself before it’s first usage. Thanks!!
As per other comments, you’re an absolute star Mrs T! This is such a helpful video, since, as you point out, the assembly instructions from Black & Decker are next to useless. Your video saves a lot of stress & frustration, very many thanks! 👍🏻
I got this as a gift to assist with my wiid craft. I made the mistake of looking at the instructions and thinking it was hopeless. Then after a month I came across you on Utube and clarity came shining through. I had it together in no time. Thank you so much.
Absolutely fantastic video. I was feeling quite dumb because I couldn't figure out the instruction manual. For example, there's no mention of removing the original white plastics to then hammer the (incredibly difficult) metal pins/rods/whatever. Hugely appreciated that you clarified it!
I agree , the supplied instructions were terrible. I received my 550 this morning and spent a frustrating couple of hours trying to assemble the unit. So glad i stumbled over your video. Big Thanks !!!
Forewarned by Amazon comments that the instructions were um, less than useful, I went straight to RUclips and this excellent video. Heartfelt thanks for immaculately clear assembly instructions from another grateful DIY-er!
Even after 3 years, this video is still so useful. Awesome guide. Bought one that arrived today. Gonna assemble tomorrow. Not even gonna look at the manual. This vid is all I need.
Thanks you :))
Mrs T you are an absolute star! I had an old B&D Workmate so I knew what it ought to look like but I couldn't make it work. It's amazing that such a well--established company could sell something with such useless instructions.
Thanks again.
Thank you for such a simple explanation of the assembly.
I thought half the parts were missing or it was meant to come more assembled than it was!
The instructions are totally inadequate, thanks for deciphering them and getting us going.
Absolutely brilliant, thank you! I don’t know what I’d have done without your video. The instructions that came with it were terrible. Once again, thank you very much.
Thank you! Thought I was going mad after trying to read the instructions ....
today I received my new workmate, with a kind of manual...... with your video it was a piece of cake! Thank you so much.
Thanks for the very clear instructions. It was needed for the ommited but necessary part regarding fixing the wooden tops.
Thanks Mrs T. I'm 30 years a DIYer and wanted to replace my worn out (but far more robust) B&D workmate. It's amazing that they get away with such pathetic instructions. Found your helpful video after 20mins fiddling about!
Even after 4 years, this video is still so useful.
I too have purchased this same model and like so many other's, have finished up nearly banging our head's on a brick wall as the instruction manual lack's any form of description as to how to assemble this unit. It's thanks to you Mrs T with your video and description have settled this. You should be called 'Wonder Woman' and deserve a Gold Medal from all of us.
Thanks for the instruction. Really needed this and without it it is a struggle to understand the original instruction manual.
Thanks Mrs T I have just bought a WM536 fairly similar. Without your help it would have taken me a long time to work out. Your video really helped me set it up and the very clear descriptions of the parts and the crucial differences between the 2 sorts of black oblongs was most useful.
Thank you, Mrs T! Without your video, I would not have managed to assemble the B&D workmate!
I was totally lost by the B&D instruction manual as it omits the most difficult steps: assembling the wooden panels.
You saved me hours and nerves. Greetings from Germany!
Really good and clear
instructions.I put a bit of soap or washing up liquid on the end of the pin helped to ease it through.Works on wood screws too.
I wish I'd seen this before I tried to assemble this thing. The instructions I got had even less in them than tje ones you are showing there. This is a great video thanks!
Brilliantly clear and non-technical instructions. Made the assembly so much easier than using manufacturer’s instruction manual.
Useful.... is the most severe understatement.... thanks Mrs T..... these manufacturers instructions should win an award for being quite possibly the most useless instructions ever.... you’re a godsend 👍🏻
Thanks Mrs T. I could not have assembled it without your instructions, especially the handles !!!
Top job mrs, the instructions that come with it are a waste of paper...thank heavens for you!
I have just spent all afternoon putting mine together, getting very frustrated and angry due to the totally useless instructions provided.
I eventually got it together, and then found the RUclips instructions. If only I’d found this first, you explained it extremely well. Thank you
I received my workbench this morning and was despairing... then turned to RUclips and lo and behold: this clear and straightforward video. Thank you so much, it has certainly saved me several hours of frustration and swearing at the utterly unhelpful instructions. Now I can enjoy my morning making something else!
Thank you! didn't even bother to read the instructions after reading all the reviews of the workmate. Just watched your video immediately after buying the workmate. Great video.
So pleased to have found your instructions. The ones on the box literally didn’t make any sense. Your instructions did! 👍👍👍👍
Thank you very much for taking the time to do this. Like you say, not difficult but the instructions are so useless that you wouldn't know how to do it unless you'd owned one before!
Fantastic. Thank you for saving me a couple of hours figuring this out. The simples5 of tasks when you see how it’s done. Shocking instructions from B&D.
Felicity you are an angel. As you say the instructions are worse than useless but you have reduced everything into simplistic terms that even I can understand...well done
Thank you Mrs T. As others have said, B&D instructions were rubbish, so your video was a lifesaver.
Wonderful I was reading the destruction booklet and had no idea, but with your clear presentation it all became quite easy, thank you for explaining the black bits I had no clue as to how they worked. Right. Time to go saw some wood.
Thank you so much! As you said, the included instructions were useless. I’ve done Legos for years and this was far trickier. Your help was much appreciated. 👍🏻😀👍🏻
Thank you. Waiting for a cataract operation means that the instructions are even less use to me at the moment. Your video was just what I needed.
Bought one of these for a good friend of mine, I live 300 miles away and this film seems to explain everything, emailing this immediately - thank you & VBW!
You are the best! The manual as you said was useless. I followed your instruction and was done in minutes. Thank you!
This really helped me sort out my sons Christmas gift. Many thanks, From North Wales. UK.
This bench has been sitting in a corner for over a year as I could not get the instructions. Thanks to you, in less than 10 minutes, it was put together. Thanks so much !!!
Mrs T saves the day, no wonder black and decker have removed comments on this product. Absolute pain in the ass to set up with the manufacturer’s manual, so yeah mrs T shows how it’s done 👌
Brilliant, easy to follow instructions. Thank you. Before I bought this I had read that the instructions were not great. Having seen them I then went straight to internet and found your video.. all done in 10 minutes. Thank you very much!
Your instructions are far, far better than those in the useless manual supplied! 👍🏻
Thank you! I saw the warnings on the manual when buying this and thought “Nah, it’ll be alright”. Oh my word... without this video I would have had a very bad day...
Great video, you saved me from scratching my head off !
Your descriptive words made me smile too - thankyou 👍
😊
First sorry for my english. Second• Thank you VERY much for this video! I was absolutly lost with only the manual. Thanks to your greate and useful instruction I have made it.
After watching your helpful video I set to it and finished in ten minutes. Instead of a hammer I squeezed those pesky C pins into the winders with mole grips and some WD40. Now all I need to do is work out how to disarm the parallel drive belt. %)
Many thanks for posting the vid.
Mrs T you are wonderful Hubby's old one finely died after at least 30 years and it has taken us ages even with your help to get this one done. Without your help there might have been a murder. Thanks such clear instructions
Oh my life you hero. I'd have chucked it through the window if I hadn't found these instructions! Brilliant, thank you.
Looked at this video to clarify where possible the instructions as given by B&D, which are a little vague. Many thanks for the video on this, made the larger wood jaw much easier & understand and then use on projects in future. Video lighting and focus were very good in the instructions - cheeers !!
Thank you 👍🙂👍.. excellent .. went ( nearly 🤫😃 ) smoothly putting mine up.. just got the handles left to do ( tommorow🤔😃) .. but ain’t daunting , after watching you’re fab , well explained and demonstrated assembly .. I never even had to read the instruction assembly manual ..yay 👍🙂👍..
thank you 👍🤗👍
The instruction manual was useless, but your video was helpful !
Thank you from France !
As with most others here, I received my workmate today and marvelled at the wholly inadequate assembly instructions before resorting to RUclips.
The failure of B&D to provide adequate instructions is totally unacceptable. You have just saved me from hours of frustration. Many thanks.
Bless you my dear you made me laugh this morning and I wasn't feeling well. It's good that you have a great interest in engineering. And you made me laugh when you said it's easy if you know what to do 😂 100% agree with you. Keep up the good work. ❤
Thanks Mrs T. Totally needed you to show me the way on the workmate 825 👍
I am grateful to you for your explanation, and to B&D for their packaging, held together by long copper staples, which I was able to use to attach the handles, instead of the cotter pins supplied, which I was unable to hammer through the holes.
Thanks. Very clear and well presented. You have lovely hands, too.
Thanks for the help, as you say the instructions are ridiculously hard to follow! Many thanks! 😊
Thanks very much. I would never have been able to assemble this using just the instructions provided.
Excellent video, thank you. Don’t know why the instructions are so bad! Wouldn’t have been able to assemble without this video!
Thank you - couldn't work out how to put together until I watched your video!
Thanks! You’re a star….saved me a couple of hours swearing at the instruction booklet!!!!
Really clear instruction, Black and Decker should pay you!!!!!
Thanks - very clear. I wish I had found the video before I spent two hours trying to assemble it!! You were over-polite about the B & D instructions.
Much obliged...saved me the painstaking job of figuring out how this thing works instead of working with it. Very clear explanation. Thanks!
Thank you for your effort. I was searching for instructions on inserting the steel C pin into the winding handle, I'm glad to see that it is as difficult as I found it and I wasn't being dense. In July 2017 B&D published their own audio-less assembly video, showing how the black plastic oblong are used. However, your video is far more helpful. So, 3 years and 5 months since your video was published, my WM825 arrived today and the printed instructions today are just as useless as you describe back in 2017. Come on B&D how hard is it to update these instructions. Also Black & Decker if you're reading this then I think you should sponsor Mrs T's Top tips channel, as a thank you to her. Since, she's saved you sales, if you read a few comments here, customers were considering returning their workbench, due to the lack of out-of-the-box instructions.
Thank you for posting this video..
I very nearly came close to using my angle grinder and wrecking bar on this to get things to fit.
Thanks for an excellent video. Without you help I would not have been able to assemble the workbench. Good work.
Thank you very much. Assemblyy went smoothly after I had thrown out the manual and watched your video.
I've been in and around workshops since 1970 and I've never seen such c**p instructions as those that come with the WM825 - thanks to Mrs T it goes from a head-scratching marathon to a 5-minute job to assemble this. Many, many thanks!
Thank you for saving me a lot of time. Agree with your comments about the instructions
You did well thank you. I fumbled my way through assembling my workmate earlier today.
The B&D instructions are good for only one thing, but I prefer Wet Wipes.
Your presentation was 1st Class👍👍
Thank so much Mrs T for these clear instructions. Very helpfull. Shame on B&D for the miserable instructions they have included with their product.
Thank you, your explanations are very clear (even when we do not understand very well English). The assembly instructions are so bad, I would never have managed to assemble it without this video
Thank you. As you said the instructions are useless. Thanks for your clear and concise help😊
Made a complicated job with instructions a very easy one, thank you so much!
What a wonderful video! Thank you so much! The instructions in the box are indeed hopeless and the layman's language (long screwy thing!) I adored. This saved me so much bad language and guesswork.
I despaired when I saw the manual, but this video made everything clear...thank you
Brilliant, a fantastic instructional video and saved hours of confusion. B and D should be paying you!!!
Thanks for this, instructions that came with it were absolutely useless.
Looked at this video before buying and thought the comments were just a load of angry people who can't follow basic instructions but when I opened the instructions I realised you were all correct and it's B & D that are the total idiots. I toyed with the idea that the white plastic bits needed to come off before putting on the handles but thought, no, B & D must know what they're doing . . . please B & D, go to China, ask people, ask schoolchildren, ask IKEA, how to write out visual instructions, and then include them instead of the rubbish you provide.
Like everyone else I'm very grateful you Mrs T, have taken the time to produce this for us!
Thanks, Very helpful I would never have been able to assemble this using just the instructions provided.
Well i was getting myself stressed as the instructions are the worst i have ever seen, but thank you so much for doing this video as it made it so clear and i got it together in no time Thanks again Mrs T
Thank you for making this video! I was a bit apprehensive about buying this workbench after eating Amazon reviews about how hard it is to assemble but with your guidance even a newbie like me could assemble it.
Black&Decker should hire you to make their instructional videos!
Thank you. I knew it was the right video as soon as you said the instructions were beyond useless..
Thank you so much for this video, without it I will be struggling.
Thank you!
Thanks very much for your explaintion. You helped me to put it together. Very helpfull indeed!!! Manual was very incomplete and not at all clear. Again thank you from Holland.
Brilliant Mrs T👍. It’s a shame that B&D don’t pay pay you for this! Why on earth have they printed such crap instructions???
Thank you, your video saved me a lot of frustration! And boo to Black + Decker for not being able to supply a simple, proper manual.
Thank you very much. Your video helped me in assembling the workbench today
Hours of fail later, I am here and I am very grateful!!
Mrs. T, thanks very much for this perfect tutorial! Loved it!
Thank you, never made it without your help!
This is brilliant. The supplied ‘instructions’ are totally inadequate , with stages omitted. I was about to pack it up and return it until I found this video. Thank you.