[TheForge] Re: Vise type

[Dave Brown]

Thanks, guys.  I think I'll go the aluminum (or is that aluminium up there 
in Canada?) route.  It's easier to come by and sounds like it'll work just 
as well for my purposes.

Oh, I should mention.  When it rains it pours.  Right?  Well, I now have 
two of these.  The blue one I posted the picture of, and a black 
one.  Black and blue.  The black one has the steel jaw inserts.

Dave

At 02:16 03/26/02 -0400, you wrote:

> > the ultra plastic may work just fine but in the machine shop we
> > always used sheet aluminum (under 1/8") in the vice jaws to keep
> > from gouging up a piece. advantage is that it can be easily bent
> > around the jaws to stay on and can be thrown away when used up. buy
> > aluminum anywhere.
>
>I use 3/16" aluminum, more or less form-fitted -- bashed into place --
>and it proves thick enough that hot, rough things clamped real tight
>don't cut through it.  I get scraps from a shop that does truck boxes
>and gear for trawlers so it's a lot harder than pure aluminum.
>
>- Mike
>
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