Sensitive Drilling machine Vice

Recently I saw a design and construction drawings for a vice for a Sensitive Drilling Machine.

It consisted of a Myford vice modified so that the sides of the (side) mounting surfaces were cut to form a dovetail. It was mounted on dovetailed plate such that it could slide smoothly along the dovetail. Below this was another plate with a simitar dovetailed and base at right angles to the one above. There were some locking clamps too - I think! The outcome was that the vice could be moved easily and effortlessly to line up the job in the vice with the quill of the Sensitive Drilling Machine.

I have purchased a vice - ready for modifying but now I can't remember where I saw the design! I had thought it was Ian Bradley's The Amateur's Workshop but it is not.

I don't know why the call me "Forgetful Jones."

Any help from anyone with a good memory would be appreciated.

Best wishes to all for Christmas.

Alan.

Have you 'book marked' it somewhere and forgotten that?

Not so lucky. I read it on a real piece of paper / book. Just can't work out what it was that I was reading!

i keep notebook so i can note down interesting bits i want to go back to in books.

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Regrettably; after several years, I found that to be self-defeating

My notebooks and scraps of paper have just become a hoard.

MichaelG.

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P.S. [Alan] ... it sounds interesting; I hope you find it, and share it here.

It was, I believe called a "jelly plate."

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I wouldn't be surprised ... That term is often used for "freehand" stages on [for example] stereo-microscopes and inverted microscopes: Although strictly speaking it originates with the truly free-moving stages that are just two flat plates with a smear of grease [jelly] between them. ... A good example of which is on the little Baker/Vickers 'Metalette'.

MichaelG.

Eureka I have found it!

I recently purchase several hundred old editions of Model Engineer. It was in one of these that I was browsing that I saw the construction article. On page 52 of Volume 105, Issue 2616 (Thursday July 12 1951) is IN THE WORKSHOP by 'Duplex,' No. 93 - A Simple Tapping Machine.

I have made a pdf copy of the article and also inserted it into a Word document but alas, I don't know how to attached either to this post. Maybe I can make jpeg copies and put them in my album.

Well done, Alan

... I have sent you a message

MichaelG.

Article uploaded to my Photo Album - with assistance from Michael Gilligan.

Much appreciated.

Thanks Michael.