This is a little bit of a duplicate post because it originated out of another thread where I got some great advice.
I'm in the process of tooling up for my first mill and I just ordered a 5" Glacern vise with swivel base and their keyless chuck:
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Great idea - I do weld and I like the homemade tools - often a better solution.Great vise, I had one on my bench top mill and loved it. Perfect size. A great addition to that new vise is a speed handle.
I found that they didn't make a speed handle for this size mill but an even better solution if you have a welder is to cut a wrench in half and weld a ball on the end. I used ball bearings purchased off ebay but a cheaper solution is a hollow ball used to cap posts on metal fencing.
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Here is my recent acquisition, I was in a real need for some radius gages and some roughing end mills.
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