On Monday 21 July 2014 07:19:42 andy pugh did opine And Gene did reply: > On 21 July 2014 12:06, Marius Liebenberg <mar...@mastercut.co.za> wrote: > > I saw a clever plan once where the guy attached a square piece of > > steel to the bottom of the vise. The steel fits the table T slot > > precisely.
I do that when making a micarta pallet to hold PCB's when I'm etching them, doing it first, so that when the pallet is clamped down, its aligned with the T slot, then the PCB pocket milled in the top, works a treat. I've been aiming to make a couple bars I can fit to the bottoms of my cheap vices, but life keeps getting in the way. I'd have to mill them unless I can buy the right sized key-stock. Std steel stock at TSC is 1/2" square, lots of swarf to make that fit. > I keep meaning to fit a key to the bottom of my vice. > Or alternatively, something I saw on the internet (but can't find now) > was a ground plate in a sort of wide "U" shape that fitted into the > vice with the legs down to the T-slots. You hold the plate between the > jaws and the plate then references the jaws to the T-slots. (This also > probably means that you can keep the position in one of the work > offsets) Thats a good idea too. I have some 1/2 alu plate that could be trimmed to fit the slots on the ends of the legs. But my tilt-able vice is too tall for that with the width of alu stock I have, 4". Even so, its a thought. Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
