From: Snag_one@msn.com   
      
   On 6/21/2024 2:03 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   > On 6/21/2024 11:57 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   >> "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:v54fn9$39fft$1@dont-email.me...   
   >> On 6/20/2024 5:07 AM, Snag wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>    Just looking at it , The barrel being octagon I can put it in my   
   >>> mill vise with some padding . Using a wrench on the barrel is almost   
   >>> certainly going to damage the finish . A nice sized chunk of hickory   
   >>> with a couple of notches to engage the frame top and bottom straps   
   >>> might be stout enough to rotate the frame - or maybe not .   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> A mill vise will probably work, but I never have one mounted anywhere   
   >> other than a mill table.  I like the bench vise (very heavy steel bench)   
   >> for this sort of work because I have it on the corner where I can work   
   >> all the way around a part.   
   >>   
   >> Someday when I have a layout and assembly table that doesn't suffer from   
   >> HSD (Horizontal Surface Disease) I may mount both a bench vise and a   
   >> mill vise on the table for different things.  A mill vise is better for   
   >> things like a hydraulic tapping arm if I ever decide I need one.   
   >> Bob La Londe   
   >> ----------------------------------------   
   >>   
   >> Somewhere I saw a suggestion of a pipe vise bolted to a heavy timber   
   >> for unscrewing things that required a lot of torque and custom   
   >> machined jaw inserts.   
   >>   
   >   
   > A pipe vise is awesome for holding, but he wants to create zero cosmetic   
   > damage.  Pipe jaws in a bench vise, or the chain style pipe vise will   
   > both dig in.  I'm not even sure I'd risk prismatic aluminum soft jaws   
   > for the zero chance of cosmetic damage he is going for.  I'd go straight   
   > to the leather surfaced plywood vise jaw liners.   
   >   
      
      If I'm going with plywood/leather jaws I might as well use the   
   regular vise . It's bolted to a stool but easily held down with a foot   
   bracing on a rung of the stool . Mill vise is currently under the mill   
   table . I've got an Arctic Cat 600 vertical twin cylinder block on the   
   mill . We're boring out the cylinders for new sleeves , he's making it   
   into a 660 ... and putting a belt drive blower on it . Gonna be wild .   
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   Snag   
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