Instrument Maker's Vice

[DavidL]

Beautiful job David!

How big is it? Love the color!

What does it mount to? I notice the interesting base...

Bernie

Hi Bernie,
Thanks for your comment.
The colour is left over spray paint from a repair I did to my wife's car about 12 months ago. - "Never throw it away, it will be wanted someday".
The base measures approx 3.5 jns height x 2.25 ins width.
The device is mounted in my large standard bench vice.
If you like i can post a copy of the sketches I produced.
Regards
DavidL

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Fabulous Job David. Simple, straightforward, very flexible; the best type of design and engineering.

One question- on the vertical height adjusting rod, how are you securing that on the short end. Maybe a photo from that angle would be great. I would really like to make one of these at some point. Thanks for sharing.

rd2012

I just threaded the end of the rod and made a mating threaded hole on the fixed jaw. locked in place with good old Locktite. Seems to work okay.
I'll post some drawings, once I work out how to do that operation.
Regards\

 

[markknx]

If you like i can post a copy of the sketches I produced. Regards DavidL Oh yeah we would like. Very nice little vice, not much more I can add than what has already been said. I wish most Enginers disigned as strait forward as you did on this. They have a tendency to over tink/ complicate thinks sometimes. (You know like the guy that thought it was a goodidea to stick the battery way down in the fender on the newer cars) Anyway nice job!!

 

[fretsman]

Well done, David, can you show us a picture of how you'd use it?

Dave

 

[Bill C.]

I needed a small vice that would rigidly hold small parts at any orientation. I designed and drafted drawings for this vice based on the principles I'd seen utilised in professional instrument maker's vices. Using bits of steel from the scrap box I fabricated a vice that does the job nicely.View attachment 71286View attachment 71287

If you want to share your drawings there is a drawing section. Nice Job

 

[DavidL]

If you like i can post a copy of the sketches I produced. Regards DavidL Oh yeah we would like. Very nice little vice, not much more I can add than what has already been said. I wish most Enginers disigned as strait forward as you did on this. They have a tendency to over tink/ complicate thinks sometimes. (You know like the guy that thought it was a goodidea to stick the battery way down in the fender on the newer cars) Anyway nice job!!

I know what you mean about the frustration of trying to access components in modern cars.

I've attached a .pfd file of the drawings I produced for the vice. In the end, I made some minor dimensional changes to suit the bits of scrap that I used. You can see that I did not make the hand wheel - instead using a simple boss and lever after the style used on my little Seig lathe.

 

[DavidL]

Well done, David, can you show us a picture of how you'd use it?

Dave

Here is a photo of the vice holding a small part. I uses my 4inch bench vice to rigidly hold the base.