I recently got an old x-y vise at a garage sale. It looks like it may be useful for my drill press. I don't have a mill yet. I don't plan to do any milling with the press but it seems that it may be helpful for fine adjustments on drilling small parts. I'm concerned that the more any variation that the table is off from dead center, the more it will cause inaccuracy of the X-Y vise. Since the table rotates about an arc around the DP post it seems that it would limit the over all accuracy of measuring off of the X-Y vise for accuracy. Is this a valid concern?
Does anyone have suggestions on how they line up their drill press table with an X-Y vise? I can bolt the X-Y vise down to the table obviously, but if the spindle is not directly lined up with the center of the table, then traveling in the "X" direction may throw off the set "Y" coordinates.
Christian
Does anyone have suggestions on how they line up their drill press table with an X-Y vise? I can bolt the X-Y vise down to the table obviously, but if the spindle is not directly lined up with the center of the table, then traveling in the "X" direction may throw off the set "Y" coordinates.
Christian