Apparatus to align my milling vice

[Chris Hamel]

Made a simple tool to hold my dial indicator so I can align my milling vice. On the small end it was turned to 1/2" so it fits my collect, there is a screw on the back side to tighten gently against the dial indicator to secure it. I drilled the hole angled a bit to make sure vice and dial indicator wouldn't interfere with each other. I read in a post a while back to clamp a straight piece of steel in the vice and run the autofeed while watching the dial indicator. A few taps on the vice and I had it aligned in short order. Snugged the nuts down and I was good to go. The piece of steel hangs on a nail behind the milling machine.

 

[Canus]

Great tool. Make sure you have the spindle locked when performing this procedure.

 

[Janderso]

That's a simple way of doing it.
I always seem to complicate it.