viceclamps

VICE CLAMPS

(DEC 2006)

JOB DONE MAN!!

I always had troubles moving the vice because I always used the pieces of the clamaping kit to hold the vice on the mill table.

that system sound not to me professional and fast to operate.

From the first day I always dreamt a perfect matched system to hold the vice: today that dreamt came true.

the project came up in few quarters of hour....and it look like this.

I had a crappiece of steel, I don't know really what steel is....and it was 25mm thick, probably 100 * 80 mm.

first step to get a piece of 25 * 100 * 46 (more and less)

band saw make the step easly in about 25 minutes..

then few machining on the mil to make true sides.. end mill 20mm used. dormer.

After that I had to remove a large amount of steel so I chose to invent a way to do it because I do not love to remove like 15 mm deep of steel with a mill on a area big like 100* 50 !!

I placed the mill vice into the bandsaw clamp and then I blocked the workpiece with the vice, to make easy the cut.

the good thing using this system is that is possible to get partial cuts into a block without cut the "slice".

In my case I had to cut for 36 mm on one side and for 15 mm on the opposite side....

the result of this machining is an angle plate from a full block.

the edges and the surfaces are not perfect so few milling actions are required, also to get the desired thickness of the parts..

this photo shows the hitachi 16mm endmill roughing.

for the external side (the one that will be visible at the user) I machined with the SECO OCTOMILL to get a perfect surface.

(what a nice mill!!)

then, I made 4 holes , before with a 4mm drill bit and then with the final 10mm one.

all the holes are countersinked in and out.

more machining with a countersink for the edges...

and the part is ready to be cut in 4 slices, to get 4 single vice holders.

again, to make this step I had to invent a working way to cut small parts on the band saw... the best way to do it is to camp into the bandsaw vice the mill vice and then attach with a G clamp the machined part as showed in photo....

tricky!! but useful

123....and this is the last cut... (more tricky)

I don't have a good slitting saw at the moment and that is why I am cutting small parts with the band saw.

I love the slitting saw, but I machined something in the past with my 5" blade and I completely destroyed the blade... so now I don't have anymore 5" blades!!!