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| shipto:
Along with the stuff I got with my lathe was a 2 way milling vice similar to the one in the first pic but not so well made. It was marked up as Jacob and has "made in taiwan" on the bottom so they are hoping people will mistake it for a Jacobs product and expect quality no doubt. Anyway when I was handed it I wondered what the heck I was gonna do with it and it sat on the bench while I did others things. So I want to turn it into useful vertical slide for the lathe. Started off by stripping it down and getting rid of the bits for the top slide (actually if I had thought it through a bit longer I would have left a bit more on it but never mind can't unturn it). I was going to make it to bolt onto a right angle block I was also given but then had a better idea for a permanent solution, we scrap loads of bearing housings at work and I sometimes rescue them from the scrap bin with the intention of using them for ?something? So I grabbed the biggest one I had stored in my area at work and saw the two ends off to leave enough meat to tap into and put the two together on the four jaw to turn it square. Turned out great according the the right angle block :D The plan is to attach this to a plate with various holes to match the mounting holes for the slide which you can see in pic2 with the bearing housing part. I did intend to mount the vice from the 2 way slide but then thought about the top slide from my old Drummond roundbed which I think will be a much more useful option. |
| Fergus OMore:
Jon S and I came up with the idea that one of these things is actually a rather nice Tool and cutter grinder. John did something with collets etc from his business and I lopped the vice bit off and after removal of the feed screws, it does become a sort of miniature Clarkson or Stent or Brooks. The motive power is a cheap 6" Chinese DE grinder. I'd sort of developed mine from a key cutter. If you want my version, it sort of follows the Brooks which appears in MEW 16 and 17. No, it hasn't got the niceties of the better designs but it is thoroughly workable and vastly superior to a bracket affair that comes with a cheapo grinder. Perhaps John has notes or photos of his setup. They are certainly worthy of a look at. Meantime, Lucky you Norman |
| shipto:
Amazing I just get started on a project and suddenly people want my time :doh: Anyway Collected some bits to make the work turn through 360 degrees and I managed to get the plate attached to the right angle before being called away. |
| vintageandclassicrepairs:
Hi shipto, I had one of these XY vices fitted to a bench drill base and for that application it worked ok It was a big old substantial drill press, so I thought I would try a small milling cutter to see if it would work Short answer no :( There is too much play in the travel nuts / threads, Where the XY handles are anchored there are no bearings to take thrust so the handles dont turn readily under pressure Jib strips adjustments doesnt work very well, lack of parallesism? In the end I gave the drill and vice away to some friends who would be happy with holding a part to drill a hole without losing fingers !!!!! Regards John |
| Fergus OMore:
more or less agree with the foregoing remarks but what this thing is- warts and all- an excellent set of castings if the feed screws etc were removed. It should not be beyond most of us, to do a bit of scraping to ensure that a slide- slides over- an inch or less. A slide - crude though it is, will grind a face or anything which is 2" wide with a movement on a simple inch of travel. We miss it and the average person quails at the drawings etc for many even home workshop grinders. For many tasks, the area to re-furbish is far less than that. It was with this firmly in my mind that I penned my original thoughts. It is worth a second thought My regards Norman |
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