Another vice tip

Charley Davidson

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I was drilling 100 + holes for a customer and my parallels kept falling over, since I don't have one of those fancy gizmos for retaining them or any banding material I rigged this up

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Simple beats expensive and complex hands down.
Not to mention the smirk on your face when you hand them the bill.
Money saved on tooling means more in your pocket.
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Works well. I've used a small block of soft foam in the same way.
 
looks good.

I just put a dab of WD40 on the parallels faces, then rub each against the jaw of the vise and it sticks to it... can then open/close the vise and the parallels follow the jaw,
 
I always keep a bunch of springs in the tool box just for this purpose.
 
Rubber bands- cheap, effective, and great to shoot at the lathe guy across the shop:LOL:
 
A piece of steel banding strap ,shaped as a bow between the thin parallels works best.
Robbie
 
I've got the fancy spring do hicky from my job shopping days----but I USED ALL THE ABOVE before and after I got it.:thinking::))
Mike
 
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