The vice I use on my mill gets quite a few comments from you guys so I thought I'd start a thread with a few detailed photos.
The vice was made by an old friend who I worked with, he was a grinder in our Tool Room, and the vice was made to use on a surface grinder with a magnetic table, so when I got it there was no way to clamp it to the mill. Its made from hardened and tempered steel and ground perfectly square and parallel, by good fortune before it was hardened he drilled and tapped a number of holes along the base and up the edges, so I able to fasten two 1" square bars down each, side drilled and countersunk for clamp screws.
I also screwed a register bar along the bottom that is perfectly square to the jaws, it fits neatly into the T slots of my mill so that the vice is square on the table.
The stop is based on a thread posted her by John Bogstandard, this is the thread
http://madmodder.net/index.php?topic=1007.0
The parallel stop on the right in the photo is just my take on the same idea I dropped on some parallels at the scrappy, putting the work up against the parallel brings it perfectly square.
Her's a couple of pics of the stops in use:-
This one gets the job square as well as acting as a stop.
OK what the story about your vice then
Stew
