Bored half to I don't know what, as I am currently recovering from a dislocated shoulder requiring operation (re-attach one of the ligaments among other things) I wanted to do at least something
I decided that I needed a slightly larger pin vice than the small ones I have. So starting with a piece of 15x15 BMS I set it up for a long thin hole ...
A lot of peck-drilling later the hole was 95 mm deep (at 3mm dia), which I the opened to 4 mm.
The hole is the one through the handle which then was the next task. Removing the squareness and down to 12 mm dia there was a bit of knurling as well. After that I took the dia further down to 10 mm to fit my instrument vice and gave the bit some general clean-up.
Next on to the mill to make the jaws. A 12 mm dia slot drill made this short work started by a 10 mm through-hole. The "head" or jaws was also made rectanglurar by removing 3 mm down to 12 for better proportions. some more clean-up and it looked as follows.
To finalize I added a screw with a wing-nut and slitted the top into jaws.
Turned out fairly OK in spite of being done basically one-handed using the machines. Then test-fitted it in the vice.
It will be a usefull addition to the tooling set I think.
BR
/Peter.
