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Vic	03/02/2023 15:40:24
3453 forum posts 23 photos	I have a job coming up that ideally needs my mill vice to be accurately angled at 45° to the table. It’s a plain vice without a swivelling base. Anyone have any quick tips on how I might achieve this?
JasonB	03/02/2023 15:43:25
25215 forum posts 3105 photos 1 articles	I just put the vice at an angle and clap it down. Usually I can get one stud in the usual place and the other I just use my clamp set for. Put a set square or angle gauge against the fixed jaw and clock that true If found this image in a good book, although the vice is on it's swivel the scale may not be accurate so I'm clocking it in with an angle gauge and dti, setsquare out of a school geometry set will also do Edited By JasonB on 03/02/2023 15:53:14
Tony Pratt 1	03/02/2023 15:53:33
2319 forum posts 13 photos	As Jason B, you can put something with the appropriate angle against the fixed jaw and adjust vice to suit or use trigonometry and a DTI to get your required angle Tony
Vic	03/02/2023 16:57:11
3453 forum posts 23 photos	Thanks Jason, I’ll give that a try.
Martin Connelly	03/02/2023 19:22:46
2549 forum posts 235 photos	If you put a DTI on the fixed jaw and set to zero then for 45° an X axis movement should equal the Y axis movement. Eg if you move X 50mm then to get the DTI back to zero should require a 50mm Y axis movement. Martin C
duncan webster	03/02/2023 19:58:12
5307 forum posts 83 photos	If you have a DRO it might have an angle setting facility.
Vic	04/02/2023 11:45:37
3453 forum posts 23 photos	Sadly I don’t have a DRO on my mill.

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