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Title: Milling Vise for pocket work
Post by: mrmodfi on September 14, 2010, 12:14:08 PM: Hello all,

Here are a few pictures of my new milling vise. It is very much like the Sherline milling vise, only bigger. The idea behind it is so I can make pocket jaws to hold irregular shaped, multi-operation parts. The jaws can be flipped over to make more pockets. When I make a fresh set of jaws, I drill and ream two .125 holes for dowel pins. After pinning the jaws, I machine them together to be a matched set. This makes reloading the jaws extremely simple, and accurate. I like to machine a tramming hole on the stationary jaw. I also make jaws out of cast acrylic. it's cheaper, easier, quicker, and works just about as well.
Thank's for looking!

Ken
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Post by: Sam on September 14, 2010, 04:22:08 PM: Nice job. Looks like it will serve you well, for many years to come.
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Post by: Tweakie.CNC on September 15, 2010, 02:58:27 AM: Excellent work Ken.

Tweakie.
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Post by: JHChoppers on September 15, 2010, 11:46:37 AM: Very Nice Work !

JH
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Post by: fer_mayrl on September 15, 2010, 01:45:15 PM: I want one, and I dont even have a mill :P (Soon I hope)
Great work!
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Post by: mrmodfi on September 16, 2010, 11:59:11 AM: Doing this these kinds of projects are very rewording, and it's nice to know that others can appreciate them as well.

Thank you all for your kind words.

Ken
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Post by: budman68 on September 16, 2010, 02:48:07 PM: Very nice, and a very usefull piece at that. Love all the adjustability of it.

Thanks for sharing-
Dave
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Post by: Fastest1 on May 09, 2011, 09:40:24 PM: I am with everybody else, Nice!
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Post by: rcaffin on September 26, 2011, 12:32:31 AM: Is that Aluminium alloy or steel alloy?
What sort of alloy?

Cheers
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Post by: ThomasCB21 on September 26, 2011, 11:18:51 AM: Nicely done. 8D

Chris
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Post by: mrmodfi on September 30, 2011, 08:25:30 AM: Hi guy's,
Thanks for the nice comment, and yes, it is made of aluminum. 6061 as I recall. I would like to have it hard anodised some time, but it works great as it is for the small projects I do.
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Post by: rcaffin on September 30, 2011, 05:34:50 PM: Quote from: mrmodfi on September 30, 2011, 08:25:30 AM
yes, it is made of aluminum. 6061 as I recall. I would like to have it hard anodised some time, but it works great as it is for the small projects I do.

Interesting. Of course, a 'real' toolmaker's vise 'should' be made from hardened steel, shouldn't it, but I wonder how many people are getting quite satisfactory results from aluminium alloy? Seems I have seen a fair bit of tooling (even commercial stuff) made from Aluminium, and I am wondering...

Fwiiw, I have even made up an ER35 chuck (just the female holder bit) to mount flat on a mill table out of nylon 66. Plastic?!?!? For light milling of Al & brass it seems quite stable.

Cheers
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Post by: RICH on September 30, 2011, 07:50:09 PM: Nice job on the vise.
RICH
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Post by: RICH on September 30, 2011, 07:55:34 PM: Quote
but I wonder how many people are getting quite satisfactory results from aluminium alloy?

I guess as long as it holds whatever to your liking it dosen't matter. All of mine are hardened, precision ground, and hardened steel.
Some are used on the grinding machine and Al just dosen't work with a magnetic chuck.

RICH
Title: Re: Milling Vise for pocket work
Post by: rcaffin on September 30, 2011, 08:47:34 PM: Quote from: RICH on September 30, 2011, 07:55:34 PM
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but I wonder how many people are getting quite satisfactory results from aluminium alloy?
All of mine are hardened, precision ground, and hardened steel.
Of course, but perhaps they were also expensive?
It's the MYOG bit using existing workshop gear which is attractive.
Cheers