I don’t think it’s a great candidate for rebuilding as it’s taken a number of direct hits. Spared the table thankfully!
(This is 100% cleaner than it was when I bought the press)
Worth a mention but probably is known to most.
That wing nut in the picture is the gib lock and both axis should be locked down before drilling to keep the table from moving.
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... which is to say ... ALL fishing luresI figured they were kind of like those fishing lures that catch fishermen instead of fish.
Everybody is different and doing projects differently. My HF xy vise sat on the shelf for over a year after I bought it and tried it and it didn’t do what I wanted at the time. Then one day the light went on for the project at hand and I mounted it up, did a couple of mods and couldn’t live without it after that. Not until I upgraded my DP was I able to go to the next level of xy rotary table and speed vise or I’d still be using the old xy vise. I’m just glad I could pass the old xy vise on to a fellow H-M to try out for free. He can always bring it back if it doesn’t work out and I’ll find someone else to pay it forward to.
Kinda the usual stuff with HF. Did some cleaning deburring on the gibs and ways. Changed the gib clamp under the vise screw to a Allen head screw so I could tighten it if needed. I installed a prismatic jaw I’d picked up somewhere that had the correct spacing of the mount screws. Which didn’t work on any other vise I have. Great for holding shafts horizontal or vertical. Was also ok for flats. The center guide shaft on mine was not proud of the vise base so to hold flats level I used my adjustable parallel to support the other end. I was getting close to making another set of jaws for it when the UniDrill came along and made the whole thing moot. The last mod I did to it was cut and mill the boss the vise screw goes through. I was doing something and the boss was at least double what it needed to be and it was making the vise not open as wide as advertised.Do you recall its shortcomings and what you did to remedy them?
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