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Mines just keyed. Fine for most jobs and if I have to a quick swipe with an indicator gets it spot on. I was waiting for someone to say they clamped a rifle scope in their vise.
Like you, I take advantage of the keys. However, for those who don't have a key vise or may have a mill with rough cut Tee slots, the rifle scope will work. Several decades ago, I needed to do some landscape leveling and made the level below/. It is a Western Field 3 - 7 x 20 .22 scope. It will easily resolve .05" @ 20 ft. which works out to about .001" in 5". I don't use it because I have an enclosure around the mill and it would be literally a pain in the neck to bend over to sight it. One issue may be that the scope may not focus on a target only 20' away. I tried mine it looks like it would be usable.Mines just keyed. Fine for most jobs and if I have to a quick swipe with an indicator gets it spot on. I was waiting for someone to say they clamped a rifle scope in their vise.
Like you, I take advantage of the keys. However, for those who don't have a key vise or may have a mill with rough cut Tee slots, the rifle scope will work. Several decades ago, I needed to do some landscape leveling and made the level below/. It is a Western Field 3 - 7 x 20 .22 scope. It will easily resolve .05" @ 20 ft. which works out to about .001" in 5". I don't use it because I have an enclosure around the mill and it would be literally a pain in the neck to bend over to sight it. One issue may be that the scope may not focus on a target only 20' away. I tried mine it looks like it would be usable.
On trick that I used to make the trial and error adjustment procedure more tolerable was to fix one side of the vise so it acted as a pivot point. I would then sweep the fixed vise jaw with an indicator and note the correction needed. I would then mount a toe clamp on the table with a feeler gage equaled to the correction needed. Then pull out the feeler gage and slide the vise to contact the toe clamp and clamp the vise. This usually gets you close enough and is far less frustrating than the tap/measure/tap/measure method.
Bob
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