Shaper 2 piece Vise

[f350ca]

My Logan came with a Palmgren drill press vice. It worked amazingly well. Low profile and don't remember it having much vice lift.
See this one is made in China so may not be as good quality, no idea where mine was made.
https://www.grainger.com/product/PALMGREN-Drill-Press-Vise-41GP28?

Greg

 

[ThinWoodsman]

Mostly, the jaw lift on it is annoyingly large.

Did you try the ol' drill rod workaround? Put a piece of drill rod (I use drill blanks, usually 3/16 or 1/4) between the workpiece and the movable jaw. Should cut down on the lift.
The vise that came with my Ammco had a *lot* of lift, which I eventually tracked down to the moveable jaw plate not fully seating (buncha swarf and old oil solidified in the bottoms of the thread). It's still not a great vise, though. Tempted to just replace it with a toolmaker's vise.

 

[ErichKeane]

Did you try the ol' drill rod workaround? Put a piece of drill rod (I use drill blanks, usually 3/16 or 1/4) between the workpiece and the movable jaw. Should cut down on the lift.
The vise that came with my Ammco had a *lot* of lift, which I eventually tracked down to the moveable jaw plate not fully seating (buncha swarf and old oil solidified in the bottoms of the thread). It's still not a great vise, though. Tempted to just replace it with a toolmaker's vise.

I did not. That's a good idea though... I'll have to try it on my current project. The swivel ability on a vice will be nice too, but it would be great if my 2 part vise was still pretty usable for large things!