Normal nuts and a strong locktite

Some kind of plastic cover as used for pipe ends or RF connectors before use would go a long way to improving appearance. The picture above is a disgrace from a high end product. At least make a dome nut for the outer one. The trouble with a special needing a pin spanner etc is availability of said spanner twenty years from now. Best might be to recess the inner nut slightly while still allowing enough to protrude for a sheet metal spanner, dome nut on outside.

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Oops !

I thought it was some DIY project

… Having just looked at the website

https://www.lie-nielsen.com/nodes/4068/workbenches

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 12/12/2018 00:19:35

I used one of these on my woodwork bench.

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You could add the extra handle which gives you the option of tidying things up. My version has a resettable locking pin to allow one screw to be disconnected from the drive so they then act independently. This allows the vise to be skewd to accomodate tapered work pieces.

regards Martin

It’s American. Obviously function over form! Or plain economics, and using the cheapest fixings.

It’s for woodwork – required gripping pressures are not that high as the raw material bruises easily and the vice should allow gripping of large non rectangular pieces – the usual design allows the two screws to be decoupled and for the moving jaw to be at a reasonable angle to the fixed jaw – re sync’d by moving both jaws together then reconnecting any linkage mechanism. Wooden handles are nice to handle in a workshop and are practical as woodwork requires clean non-oily hands – that make is not cheap!

If you wanted to make something that looked a bit nicer then I would do as you are thinking and have an inner round "nut" and also make the outer nut round but with a blind thread and dome of fully round over the end. You could even add a bead detail to the inner nut so it looks a bit like the cast Tee handle boss. Just use two pin spanners to lock them up as you would do with the locknuts so just as easy to undo if needed.

I don't really agree with the suggestion that loosening the nut will allow the vice to hold tapered work, as there is no provision in the bearings that the ends of the screws run in as soon as the jaw is canted to one side it will all lock solid. There is also the fact that the tool tarts that like LN etc spend all their time tweaking their planes and sharpening the blades that few actually get round to making anything, sounds familiar

If you really want a vice that can angle the jaw then a pattern makers one would be the better option. Though that means you lose the main advantage of the twin screw vice which is to be able to drop a board down between the two screws and clamp it up evenly, ideal for things like cutting dovetails on wide draws etc. The main selling point of the twin screw/chain setup is that it eliminated racking, nuts really only get touched to set it parallel when first fitted.

Edited By JasonB on 13/12/2018 08:40:21

In an ideal world this would be a dome nut, but your chances of finding a dome nut with what looks like about a 1" square thread are probably close to not a lot.

Buying a suitable plug (bottoming) tap would not be easy either.

Pity as it would look very nice.

As the MAN said "What,s in a name" ?

I always thought that stuff was way overpriced,while being no better than many other makes,but then,I could never afford it anyway,so maybe it was a case of sour grapes?

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Except for those nasty double nuts … which is where we came in

MichaelG.

Who woud be first to lose that specially designed pin spanner, of huge cost?

I wouldn’t, because I know I would likely mislay it, especially just before I needed it, so I would buy something else!

HOW MUCH!……………………………. Do people actually buy these, beside footballers and rock stars ??