jhovel
4th Dec 2015, 01:46 AM
Just something I have meaning to try for years....
The project originally came in to beeing when a friend gave me a base for a rotating machine vice - without any vice, several years ago. I had some 1/2" plate and an oxy handy and marked, cut out and machined a matching machine vice base plate to go on the base.
Some time later I found a piece of cast iron of suitable size. I cut the 3 pieces needed for a vice and surface ground the main body. That's where it came to a grinding halt....
I found a nice heavy and large machine vice for the mill and the need for this home-made version diminished.
Now I have a surface grinder and kept looking at the pieces again, because the vice by itself would be really good on the surface grinder.... Then I was given my new Pear pantograph mill - and a nice low profile vice would be good for that as well.
So over the last few days, I got my head around the machining required again. I wanted to get to know the milling capability of the Pear and this seemed a suitable project.
I'm still going to surface grind the fixed and moving jaw, and when finally assembled, the ends of the body. It can be used on its own on a magnetic chuck, using the side slots for clamping down, on the base plate for bolting to T-slots and fitted on the rotating base as a regular milling vice.
Here are some photos of the construction and assembly.
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The project originally came in to beeing when a friend gave me a base for a rotating machine vice - without any vice, several years ago. I had some 1/2" plate and an oxy handy and marked, cut out and machined a matching machine vice base plate to go on the base.
Some time later I found a piece of cast iron of suitable size. I cut the 3 pieces needed for a vice and surface ground the main body. That's where it came to a grinding halt....
I found a nice heavy and large machine vice for the mill and the need for this home-made version diminished.
Now I have a surface grinder and kept looking at the pieces again, because the vice by itself would be really good on the surface grinder.... Then I was given my new Pear pantograph mill - and a nice low profile vice would be good for that as well.
So over the last few days, I got my head around the machining required again. I wanted to get to know the milling capability of the Pear and this seemed a suitable project.
I'm still going to surface grind the fixed and moving jaw, and when finally assembled, the ends of the body. It can be used on its own on a magnetic chuck, using the side slots for clamping down, on the base plate for bolting to T-slots and fitted on the rotating base as a regular milling vice.
Here are some photos of the construction and assembly.
359846 359847 359848 359849 359852 359850 359851