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Work Holding Devices

1. The document describes various work holding devices used in metalworking, including drill press vices, bench vices, hand vices, and pin vices. 2. It provides details on bench vices, including recommended heights and jaw materials. Buttress threads are described as withstanding heavy thrust. 3. The document also briefly covers related tools like V-blocks, angle plates, and types of files for metalworking. Files are classified by length, shape, cut, and coarseness.

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Work Holding Devices

1. The document describes various work holding devices used in metalworking, including drill press vices, bench vices, hand vices, and pin vices. 2. It provides details on bench vices, including recommended heights and jaw materials. Buttress threads are described as withstanding heavy thrust. 3. The document also briefly covers related tools like V-blocks, angle plates, and types of files for metalworking. Files are classified by length, shape, cut, and coarseness.

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  • Work Holding Devices: Describes various devices used for holding workpieces in place during machining, including specifics on drill press vice and bench vice.
  • Cutting Tools: Covers the tools used for shaping and cutting materials, including file types and levels of coarseness.

WORK HOLDING DEVICES.

Work Holding Devices


1. Drill Press Vise
Used to hold round, square or odd-shaped rectangular pieces
Clamp vise to table for stability

2. The Bench Vice


The Bench Vice, which is sometimes called the Parallel Vice, is used to clamp or hold
workpieces. The body is screwed to the workbench to provide secure holding. If you are
installing a Bench Vice there are a few points that you should take into consideration.
The top of the vice should be at the same height as the users elbow.
The Fixed Jaw should protrude slightly over the edge of the bench to allow for
long workpieces.
The body and jaws of the Bench Vices found in the school workshop are usually made
out of Cast Iron, which is strong in compression but brittle under shock. As a result they
should not be hammered. There are also steel vices available but they are more
expensive. The screw thread that a Bench Vice uses is called a Buttress Thread. This Type
of thread withstands heavy thrust in one direction yet unscrews easily in the opposite
direction.

The Jaws Faces of the vice are made from


hardened steel. There are also serrated which is a criss-cross pattern which provides a
firmer grip on the workpiece. The Jaws Faces are screwed to the Sliding Jaw and the
Fixed Jaw so that if they are damaged they can be replaced.
HAND VICE
The Hand Vice
The Hand Vice, which you can see to the left, is

especially useful when working on the drilling machine, or working with small parts that
need to be clamped together.
PIN VICE
The Pin Vice
To the right

you can see a chuck type Pin Vice, and to the left is an open jaw type Pin Vice. Both
types are used to hold small pieces. The chuck type pin vice is better when you are
working with round bar. The vice to the right is holding a drill bit. The open jaw type pin

vice is used more appropriatly with small flat work pieces. Both types are hollow in the
middle to allow you to work with material of any length.

V-blocks
Made of cast iron or hardened steel
Used in pairs to support round work for drilling
To prevent the shaft from bending under cutting pressure a V-block and screw jack can be
used to support the shaft.

Angle plate
Angle plate is used in layout work and in setting up the work piece for drilling or milling
at
a 90 degree to the table.

CUTTING TOOLS
FILE

Files are used to square ends, file rounded corners, remove burrs from metal,
straighten uneven edges, file holes and slots, smooth rough edges, etc. Files have
three distinguishing features, and are classified by these features:
Length, (measured without the Tang)
Cross-section or Shape
Grade of Cut
You can discover more about these features below.

Grade of Cut
Files are usually made in two types of cuts, Single Cut and Double Cut. The Single
Cut File has a single row of teeth extending across the face at an angle of 65 to 85 for
the length of the file. The Double Cut File has two rows of teeth which cross each other.
For general work, the angle of the first row is 40 to 45, and the angle of the second row
can be anywhere between 30 and 87.

Single Cut

Double Cut

Files are also classified by the coarseness of the teeth. The bigger the teeth the rougher
the feel of the File, and the quicker the File will remove material when you are using it.

There are four main levels of coarseness that you may come across in the metalwork
room and they are :
Rough
Bastard
Smooth
Very Smooth
THERE ARE 3 TYPES OF FILLING WHICH ARE : . Cross filling; Straight
filing and draw filling

WORK HOLDING DEVICES. Work Holding Devices 1. Drill Press Vise  Used to hold round, square or odd-shaped rectangular pieces
The Jaws Faces of the vice are made from hardened steel. There are also serrated which is a criss-cross pattern which
vice is used more appropriatly with small flat work pieces. Both types are hollow in the middle to allow you to work with ma
There are four main levels of coarseness that you may come across in the metalwork room and they are :  Rough  Bastard  S

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