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Keeping your vice straight

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John Stevenson:
For anyone who has one of the hardened vises you can make one of these.



Simple horse shoe shape that clamps in the vise and the two ears drop into the tee slots.
they don't even have to be a good fit as long as you keep the vise pushed or pulled so the jig registers.
If when fitted to the jaws they don't line up with a slot , then just use packing to get it in line.

Before you make one check your other vises and make it so the same jig can be used on all sizes [ up to a limit ]

John S.

Bogstandard:
Very good idea there John.

That would be perfect for those toolmakers vices that don't have holdown slots, but a sort of clampy bit on the side.


John

crabsign69:
john  thats what ive been using to get my vice striaght and it works good but i like bogs take on that vice  perhalps when money is better ill get a vive i can mill into.
or maybe ill buy the metal and make my own better yet.  :mmr:

raynerd:
I`m digging this older post up because I`m wanting to do this to my vice. I`ve made my piece that fits perfectly in the T slots but my problem is my vice already has a slot and holes drilled and tapped. From what I can understand, this method works because holding the vice upside down clamped to the bar means that cutting the slots aligns with the T-slots and makes it square. My slots in the vice are already cut and they are wider than my T-slots on the table. Infact - there is both a slot with tapped holes in both axis of the vice. Do some vices come with these slots cut or is it likely that a previous owner has done this as it was kindly donated to me. It is an excellent vice and for the last few months when I`ve been planning on doing this I presumed it would be easier for me as the slot is already cut and holes tapped - now I realise I can`t follow this method because of it!!  :bang:


Now a bit  :offtopic: but on the topic of vices, can I also ask - is the big lug at the very top of the vice necessary? Only I really like this vice but that lug gets in the way of my mill column and takes about a full 3/4" of travel off the Y-axis.

Any advice welcomed.
Chris

jim:
i'm glad you dug this up!!

had to do one of them "five Min favour" jobs today with the rotary table, spent far longer lining it all up than doing the job!

i'll get some similar done on it ASAP!

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