New Vice

I need to replace my 'chinease made' vice with a new one, has anyone bought one of these? If you have are they any good?

Vice on Ebay
 

Bri

Edited By David Clark 1 on 01/03/2013 18:19:58

Hi Brian

I would want to know what the inside of the vice between the jaws is.

Some of these cheap vices have a rough casting between the jaws or a bit of a rough gap so you can't put a parallel in it.

Also, the base loses you headroom but if you remove it, you can only use the vice at 90 degrees to the X axis.

That would be fine for most of the time but 10% of the time you may need the vice in line with the X axis and unless your Tee slots are the right distance apart you may not be able to clamp it down.

regards David

Bri, whereabouts are you? RDG are advertised as being at the Manchester Modelling Exhibition in the Trafford Centre tomorrow - you could go and have a look.

John

If the RDG stand at the Manchester show is the same as last year, it will not be very big and only have a small amount of there stuff on it.

Cheers Derek.

Thanks for the ad-vice. I am ok with height as i have a warco that the head can go up and down. It was the quality side of things that worried me. On the one that i have the moving part lifts a little when i clamp things in it. If i forget to tap the part level i end up with a taper cut.

No chance of Manchester, her who must be obeyed needs to visit a shop in colne tomorrow and the nearest i will get to anything like moddeling will be Howarth railway.

Cheers

Bri

Brian, the show is open on Sunday as well.

Cheers Derek.