Posted by Howard Lewis on 24/03/2016 18:05:43:
Having, when younger, had a drill grab and hurl the vice onto the floor, do make sure that things are secure!
Howard
Excellent point.
The Warco De-Vice, along with most other single point holding systems, gives the vice a lot of leverage against the actual restraining device. Such restraints are usually mostly, if not all, friction devices rather than positive stops. It seems to me that they are best thought of as being for holding the vice and work piece in the right place to start drilling rather than security against disaster when the brown'n sticky hits the rotating blades. With the De-Vice I'd definately be hanging on to the vice handle whilst drilling. Hopefully the vice is a bit less wimpy in real life than it appears in the pictures.
Problem with working in that manner is that should anything go wrong you need to let go of either vice or drill feed to hit the emergency stop. Depending on what problems the shop gremlins have arranged this time letting go of one or the other could vary from worriesome to downright dangerous. Realistically if you need one hand on the vice and one on the feed a foot operated emergency stop button down on the floor could be a sensible precaution. Depending on the size of work involved of course. My gear driven, 3 MT spindle, Pollard 15AY demands a lot more respect than a baby Proxxon. I've never actually got round to hooking up a foot switch on the Pollard but my normal work holder is the largest size cross vice solidly bolted to the table. Jobs which don't fit in that get other, equally robust, fixing down. When I'm worried about job security its time for one hand on the feed and one hand about 1/4" off the stop button.
Clive.
Edited By Clive Foster on 24/03/2016 18:40:17
Edited By Clive Foster on 24/03/2016 18:41:16
Edited By Clive Foster on 24/03/2016 19:07:55