Pm935 Vise?

Stimulated by the advice here, I did seriously shop for a Kurt 6" and it was significantly higher than a Glacern 5" delivered. The Glacern has very good base pricing at the moment and free shipping.

Real bottom line is that I decided I wanted to go with something sized for this smaller mill. The Glacern reputation is very good and my expectation is that I would be happy with one for this application.

So decision reached and one is on the way along with some other goodies I could not pass up with their current promotion.

Thanks to all for the feedback. This is a great forum community.
 
I recently bought a 9x42 Supermax and for an additional fee took his Bridgeport 6" vice and 15" rotary table. I like the 6" vice size. I also have a 3" precision vice for the small stuff. I know there are better but these will do all I should ever need.
 
Fwiw I installed a 5" kurt on mine that I had lying around until my D688 arrived. Now that the 6" is on the machine I wouldn't go back to the 5" for any reason. The 6" fits the machine just fine and the added size is beneficial imo. The primary negative to the 6" is its weight but this is true on any machine.
 
I had the same experience with my Millrite. I had a 4" vise on it to begin with and came across a deal on a 6" Kurt. I was worried that it would be too big. But after mounting it, all was fine. It had a little hang over in the back when mounted in the middle position of the table, but not significantly more than the 4" it replaced. I have had the 6" Kurt for about 9 years and have never wanted to put the smaller vise back on. I have purchased a lot of accessories that didn't seem available for the smaller vises or at least are much more available such as soft jaws, rubber faced jaws, oversized tall jaws, parabolic jaws for round stock, etc that have been very useful. Additionally things like stops and parallels are cheaper and easier to find. Considering that a 4" or 5" used Kurt cost more than a new 6", I wouldn't consider the smaller vise unless I had a mill with a table smaller than say 8" x 28". But that size on up 6" all the way for me.
 
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