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Small sine vise-recommendations? Terry Keeley 09-08-2008
Posted by Terry Keeley on September 8, 2008, 5:45 pm
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In the market for a 3" sine vise for my home shop, I tend to shy away from
the "asian" varieties but at about 1/2 the price I'm tempted...

When they quote square and parallel to 0.0002" can they be trusted?

Any other general comments?




Posted by Wes on September 8, 2008, 7:08 pm
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>When they quote square and parallel to 0.0002" can they be trusted?


If you can't independantly qualify it, how can you trust it?

Wes

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Posted by Joe Pfeiffer on September 8, 2008, 9:51 pm
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>
>>When they quote square and parallel to 0.0002" can they be trusted?
>
>
> If you can't independantly qualify it, how can you trust it?

To the extent that you can trust the people making the claim, you can
trust their claim. That's a deliberately qualified statement.



Posted by Jim Wilkins on September 8, 2008, 7:29 pm
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> In the market for a 3" sine vise for my home shop, I tend to shy away fro=
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> the "asian" varieties but at about 1/2 the price I'm tempted...
>
> When they quote square and parallel to 0.0002" can they be trusted?
>
> Any other general comments?

I don't know about the sine vises but the $25 set of 10 pairs
parallels I bought recently is not only matched but *accurate* to one
vernier division on a 0.0001" mike.

Posted by Ned Simmons on September 8, 2008, 8:50 pm
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On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 17:45:59 -0400, "Terry Keeley" <tkee(no
spam)@rogers.com> wrote:

>In the market for a 3" sine vise for my home shop, I tend to shy away from
>the "asian" varieties but at about 1/2 the price I'm tempted...
>
>When they quote square and parallel to 0.0002" can they be trusted?
>
>Any other general comments?
>

The toolmaker's vise I got from Shars was within the flatness and
squareness spec as best as I could tell with a surface plate, tenths
indicator and precision square. Their sine vise looks very much like
the vise I purchased.

http://www.shars.com/products/view/143/Precision_Sine_Vise_438quot
http://www.shars.com/products/view/148/Precision_Toolmakers_Vise_5quot

--
Ned Simmons

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