Vice stop……….

[Rik ShawParticipant @rikshaw]

I am a few hours into the start of a new model but I keep thinking that I ought to be trying something a little more ambitious so while I moon about getting inspiration for something grander I like to at least do something. I have been meaning to knock up a milling machine vice stop for a while now and have spent a couple of days making this:

It goes on the vice like this and is secured by 2no. 6mm capheads on the RH side of the fixture:

I scavenged all the flat ally from a redundant drilling jig (skip job) hence a lot of equally redundant tapped holes you might be able to see.

Finished it and locked up the shed a little while ago leaving the inside looking like an aluminium bomb explosion. Guess what I'm doing tomorrow?

Rik

[Rik ShawParticipant @rikshaw]

……….no need to drill the vice with this one.

[Gone AwayParticipant @goneaway]

Posted by Rik Shaw on 04/12/2013 17:21:30:

I have been meaning to knock up a milling machine vice stop for a while now

 

North American readers should not get the wrong idea.

Nice job though, Rik

Edited By OMG on 04/12/2013 18:08:05

[jason udallParticipant @jasonudall57142]

Elegant Rik.
Nice

Although some purists might call for plugging the extra holes..though for me ..you never know when they might be useful

Edited By jason udall on 04/12/2013 19:52:36

[NobbyParticipant @nobby]

Hi Nick & Guys
The stop I use is clamped on the milling table . so you can move it back for larger jobs. also where you have a screw adjustment mine slid with a M6 locking screw but on the it it had a locking collar .so when you put the job against the stop. remove the sliding stop and the you can run the program to machine say a radius on the end.
Remove job. Slide the stop back onto the collar stop Load job machine etc .
This way you can also use it as a back stop the other side of the vice . also without a vice using a fence and clamps
Nobby

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