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Drill X Y Axis Vice

Penpal

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It has in the vice jaws vees to hold any shape pen blank horizontally to ream and vertical to drill.

Kind regards Peter.:thinks:
 

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bellringer

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i have been wanting to buy a vice like that but can not find one for sensible money
 

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Jim

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I have one also but it doesn't have the V's in it. I dropped it on the floor a few months ago and broke the end off one of the handles ... :goesred:
 

Penpal

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With regard to the X Y axis vice I spent quite a while modifying mine adjusting to take out all slop in the movements including adjustments to the gibbs for the sliding parts, packing the main shaft movements etc. Lucked onto a pair of cast jaws with a horizontal vee right through the jaws and a couple of vertical vees they apparently went off like a lead balloon years ago and I found mine jobbed out by a dissallusioned wholesaler. Since then in the past in America they are being made by another company and from memory on another site and sold as two single purchases I published the details, location and price will when I can try to back track as I find they were able to be fitted like a glove to my vice. My vice is bolted to a dedicated drill stand since over the years I find that repetitive tasks such as drilling blanks are easy breezy with immediate access and can be done in batches. As a sparky in a former life I threw away the Taiwanese motor fitting a 1 hp single phase motor to the drill and continuous stop start with a 1 hp motor if it hits on the high part of the cycle generates a high current momentarily so I leave the motor run I have never changed the fairly fast speed since then and have drilled up to 2 to three hundred blanks in a batch. Once again please disregard my methods with safety in mind I was taught to be cautious.

Its been perishing cold in my shop so I,ve spent a lot of time at the computer yesterday bought an fan driven steel enclosed element heater for the workshop the first time I have found a safe method to heat where I would like to work.

Kind regards Peter.
 
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