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1st up excuse the rough CAD drawing.
I am going to make a shaper vise. I have some 50 mm thick, hot rolled (i think) plate to use for the main base of the vise. I need to flame cut it from a bigger chunk and machine it down to make the flanged, and slotted base.
Basically something like this.
What is the general consensus here? Do I, or should I, fully anneal this before I start milling it out? After its been roughed out, but not fitted with the jaws and such? As, needing to be hand fitted. Do you think there will be a lot of internal stresses released with this amount of material removed?
Approx. dimensions are 200 mm W x 250 mm L x 50 mm H at the max and around 10-15 mm H at the flange.
The central slot will be roughly 30 mm wide. I plan on fitting a bearing and nut to the rear, (front view) for the sliding jaw, and keying the fixed jaw in position.
Cheers Phil
I am going to make a shaper vise. I have some 50 mm thick, hot rolled (i think) plate to use for the main base of the vise. I need to flame cut it from a bigger chunk and machine it down to make the flanged, and slotted base.
Basically something like this.
What is the general consensus here? Do I, or should I, fully anneal this before I start milling it out? After its been roughed out, but not fitted with the jaws and such? As, needing to be hand fitted. Do you think there will be a lot of internal stresses released with this amount of material removed?
Approx. dimensions are 200 mm W x 250 mm L x 50 mm H at the max and around 10-15 mm H at the flange.
The central slot will be roughly 30 mm wide. I plan on fitting a bearing and nut to the rear, (front view) for the sliding jaw, and keying the fixed jaw in position.
Cheers Phil