Hi Guys
Bought a new drilling machine with rack & pinion table & No2 morse taper spindle. Decided to refurb. the 10yr old machine vice. Stripped the vice, cleaned all parts and gave it a couple of coats of paint to match drill livery. The slide screws & nuts were filthy so decided to give them some protection. Swarf covers were made out of cardboard and screwed onto the vice to protect the slide screws. In use these covers were fine tuned until all was working well. Removed the covers & used them as patterns to make new covers using an old pedal bin.
Pic 1 Rear Cross Slide cover cut out to fit machine column
Pic 2 Front Cross Slide cover
Pic 3 Top Slide cover with vice inverted Cheers David