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As I posted in another thread, I found a rather large angle bracket in some of the odd stuff I received from Fred when I got my machines. It was apparently part of a special purpose tool which has since lost its purpose. The base is 1.25x4x7 and the upright is .985x6x7, the whole thing weighing in about 20 lbs.
It's bolted construction, not sure if it's doweled. Most surfaces are ground, the edges being milled. Everything is square to everything according to my precision "inspection" square. Fortunately, it's not hardened, so I decided it would make a suitable "tombstone" for my mill. It even has the tie-down bolt holes to clamp to the table.
First, it needed a handle like a real piece of tooling.
It's awaiting the arrival of a radius cutting tool for completion.
Not willing to risk taking heavy cuts for tee-slots, I opted for a grid of 1/2-13 tapped holes for tie-down bolts
and some 1/4-20 holes for side plates.
I spaced them to fit my 1/8 parallels as side plates.
It was about here that I realized I could put a heavy fixed jaw on the edge and fab a removable clamping jaw that bolts to the face like table vice for a mill. Voila! a home-made VertiVise. I'll get back to you.
It's bolted construction, not sure if it's doweled. Most surfaces are ground, the edges being milled. Everything is square to everything according to my precision "inspection" square. Fortunately, it's not hardened, so I decided it would make a suitable "tombstone" for my mill. It even has the tie-down bolt holes to clamp to the table.
First, it needed a handle like a real piece of tooling.
It's awaiting the arrival of a radius cutting tool for completion.
Not willing to risk taking heavy cuts for tee-slots, I opted for a grid of 1/2-13 tapped holes for tie-down bolts
and some 1/4-20 holes for side plates.
I spaced them to fit my 1/8 parallels as side plates.
It was about here that I realized I could put a heavy fixed jaw on the edge and fab a removable clamping jaw that bolts to the face like table vice for a mill. Voila! a home-made VertiVise. I'll get back to you.