MEW 288 Readers Tips

[Ian Johnson 1Participant @ianjohnson1]

Just reading through the latest issue of MEW 288 and Readers Tips is always a favourite page for me, even though I usually have seen them before or use the tips myself.

But congratulations to Geoff Harding for his novel use of a cheap drill press vice, for holding long work pieces. Chopping the vice in half! I think this is the best readers tip for a long time!

Nice one Geoff

Ian

[Ian Johnson 1Participant @ianjohnson1]

[I.M. OUTAHEREParticipant @i-m-outahere]

+1 on that comment !
With the addition of a couple of angle plates or some stout angle bar you could use them as vertical clamps on the mill , bench or welding table

Bit of a bugger if you lose one half though 😁

[egaParticipant @ega]

And with some suitable packing the work could sit directly on the table.

Thanks to GH for an excellent suggestion.

[larry phelan 1Participant @larryphelan1]

I bought two of those cheap vises years and found them to more useful than ever I thought. Might consider chopping up one of them, never thought of that !

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Sometimes I see a Reader's Tip that makes me laugh out loud, Geoff's certainly did that.

It's so obvious – when you see it, an utterly brilliant idea and a deserved winner

Neil

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi, one of those "why didn't I think of that" moments.

Regards Nick.

[Anonymous]

Neat idea to use a drilling vice, but not a new concept. Similar items are available commercially:

Albeit not suitable for hobby size mills. If you overtighten the vice there is a chance of distorting, or even cracking, the table.

Andrew

[Brian WoodParticipant @brianwood45127]

Also deserving was the previous winner in MEW 287, Brian Roberts, for his truly simple but ingenious solution to keeping parallels in place in a machine vice with bits of foam to separate them. Inspired in my view

Brian

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