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Other Small Vise Plans PDF
Other Small Vise Plans PDF
The body is a strut cut out of the iron frame from a junk George Bent
"Crown" upright piano, but the jaws and nut are some steel cutoffs. The
3/8"-20 lh screw is a nice fit between the 16mm shoulder and 1/4" hex
drive, and it is supported between two thrust bearings.
The fixed jaw is held in place with a 1/4" square key and two 1/4"-20
shcs. To make advantage of the screw body, and even more so to assure
location I drilled undersize pilot holes in the vise body and then in
assembly drilled with a nr. 8 drill though both parts, following with an
F and tap.
The movable jaw is one piece but the rear portion might as well be
pinned and screwed on to simplify milling the recess. The nut is made to
fit the lower channel and jaw recess, and drilled clamped in place at
the same time as the clamping screw hole with a long drill. Instead of a
fiddly loose pad the cylindrical insert is just a 1/4" dowel pin with a
ground flat, lightly pressed in place so it can self align with the face
on the nut.
I used a piece of 1/2" rod for the screw, and pressed a 5/8" collar onto
the end to bear against the thrust washer. The cast iron washer is press
fit into the housing with some grease and the screw, holes for the 2-56
shcs drilled in assembly like with the fixed jaw.
The base is sawn out of a plate that already had the stepped bore, and
the ears shortened on a lathe faceplate to clear hex bolt heads. The
clamping plate is cut off the end of a shaft coupling turned down to fit
the recess. Slots for alignment keys would complete the vise and base
but I haven't made them yet.
Clark Panaccione
http://www.freewebs.com/mireut/
13.02.05
jaw liner (2)
19.5 ream
0.313"
18.0
10.0
9 6.4
26
55.0 64
20.02
35.0
15.0
103
10.0 48.0 70
6.35
+0.00/-0.04 drill nr.9 pilot;
in ass’y redrill nr. G,
c’bore 3/8" dia, 3/8" deep
3.175+/-0.04
3.175
+0.04/-0.00 12.7 1/4" square key, 48mm long
drill nr
9.00 c’bore 8.4, 2.5mm deep
27.5
3.175+/-0.04
6.35
+0.00/-0.04
6.4 28.0
48.0
35.0
Drill in assembly:
nr. 8 10mm deep,
tap 1/4"-20
fixed jaw
17.0 12.7
9
4.00
23.0
drilll nr 3, ream 0.2502" movable jaw drill nr 29, tap 8-32
20.5
48
6.35
20.2
13.9
20.00
cylindrical insert
11.0
17.5
23.0
15.3
7.5
161
39
20.0
4.0
15.85
7.94
20.0 16.00
3.00
5
9.53
16.00
19 7.94
thrust bearing
thrust collar
drill nr. 8
c’sink nr. F
tap 1/4"-20
119
76.30
90
70.02 12.7 70.00 12.4
6.35
62.0
76.32 6.4 6.3
base