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Posted by Paul M on March 31, 2008, 8:20 am
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Hi
I leave a larger vice bolted to the table most of the time and I also
leave a small homemade indexing fixture on the table.
The larger vice`s base was already pre drilled and tapped both ways
for the fitting of buttons and I made my indexing fixture in the same
manner.
The smaller toolmakers vice however is useful for smaller and more
awkward jobs but these only tend to be once in a blue moon hence the
requirement to basically place the vice on the table and bolt it down
wihtout too much fiddling.
Cheers
Paul
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>Hi Paul,
>Why do you want to keep fitting your vice, why not leave it in place.
>I leave my vice, same size as yours, on the table almost all off the
>time, as most of my work will fit in the vice. Here I must say that I
>don't put the vice in the middle of the table but about a third of the
>way to one end or the other. This allows other fittings to be fitted
>at the other end. When I have to demount the vice, I put it back
>towards the other end of the table, this evens up the wear on lead
>screw, or at least should. On my 626 table, with vice fitted, I still
>have room for either a rotary table or a spin indexer, without
>upsetting the accuracy of the vice.
>T.W.
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>Hi Paul,
>Why do you want to keep fitting your vice, why not leave it in place.
>I leave my vice, same size as yours, on the table almost all off the
>time, as most of my work will fit in the vice. Here I must say that I
>don't put the vice in the middle of the table but about a third of the
>way to one end or the other. This allows other fittings to be fitted
>at the other end. When I have to demount the vice, I put it back
>towards the other end of the table, this evens up the wear on lead
>screw, or at least should. On my 626 table, with vice fitted, I still
>have room for either a rotary table or a spin indexer, without
>upsetting the accuracy of the vice.
>T.W.