Fractal vice

[John HaineParticipant @johnhaine32865]

https://www.metmo.co.uk/collections/fractal-vice

I’m not sure if anyone has come across Metmo before – basically cool but overpriced tools and gadgets.  But this little “fractal vice” looks like it could be useful on the milling machine especially if it had groove for clamping it down, to hold odd shapes.  Apparently based on an old engineering patent (hopefully expired) – would be good to find the patent.  Horrendously expensive though.

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Ingenious but if expensive perhaps you’d rather think carefully if you can’t hold the occasional awkward work-piece with what you already have, aided by a little lateral thinking and perhaps a bit of quick “scrap-box” jig-making.

It would take a lot of cleaning afterwards if the milling has produced a sizeable heap of fine-grained swarf!

A better way to hold a small attachment like that on a milling-machine would be a base-plate extending beyond the tool itself, with holes for T-slot studs.

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

I think we had a thread on this a few years ago. 3D printed versions.

[peak4Participant @peak4]

There’s a link to one patent below this video; a general search show various other fractal vices available from the far east (See also vise as a search term)

See also, again with a link

For some other ideas

There’s Been a Surge in Fractal Vises

Bill

[Phil PParticipant @philp]

Can be had for £34 on Temu.

 

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[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

I think I would rather have them without any mounting lugs, at 32mm wide you can just hold them in your regular vice which gives the option of horizontal (either axis), vertical or at any angle. I do the same with my small 35mm Prceision vice.

If you have access to a 3D printer then you can just print nesting jaws for regular vice.

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