From: none@none.com99   
      
   I probably won't, but I have been thinking about it.   
      
   I am sure of some of you (particularly old school employed machinists)   
   made on during your apprenticeship.  I have been playing with the idea   
   making 4-6 of them specifically for my smaller machines to maximize   
   their productivity.  I've realized that some of the molds I make on   
   those machines (because they have fast spindles for small cutter) could   
   be cut two piece at a time if I had two matching vises on their tables.   
      
   The thing is making things takes time.  Steel is slow.  I do have a   
   bunch of 4140HT 1x6 (over) bar stock laying out back left over from a   
   press die job.  I expected to make more mistakes than I did and I   
   expected to get more repeat business.  Sadly my dies have held up better   
   than either they or I expected.  Previously they had been getting   
   unknown steel dies from China, and then war broke out in Ukraine forcing   
   that company to change their manufacturing focus.   
      
   Anyway, I have (probably not ideal) steel available.  The big killer is   
   time.  You might say, "Well just buy some."  Screwless vises are not as   
   cheap as they used to be, and the size I would most want is an odd in   
   between size, and I would still have to modify them to suit my needs.   
      
   I do have one or two ideas that would make a screwless vise better, not   
   the least of which is gettng rid of that cludgey cast pin, with cross   
   pin used in the cross slots to pull down that moving jaw.  Replacing it   
   with a one piece part would eliminate one of the problems with the   
   formerly cheap import vises.   
      
   I'm not sure I have a specific question.  I'm mostly thinking out loud   
   with nobody in the shop to bounce it off of.   
      
   Well, I have to head outside and bring the tractor around to fork lift   
   unload a delivery shortly.  The CostCo shelving is arriving in...   
      
   As I was typing the driver rang my shop intercom.   
      
      
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   Bob La Londe   
   CNC Molds N Stuff   
      
      
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