[TheForge] What is it

Wed Sep 11 07:10:00 2002

        John,  I look forward to seeing the pictures of those vices you use.

        I knew an old tool maker in the tool room of a machine shop.  He had
something on this idea to hold things in all positions for deburing,
threading, filing, etc.   Anyone that does research and development and
prototype work has call for holding weird shapes, as they are making the
parts before the jigs and production fixtures are made up to mass produce
them.
        I'm sure that these vises will become a thing of the past with CNC
as those rigs can carve a tomato out of a block of steel by pushing a button
and even tell you when the tool bit is dull.
        I respected the little grey haired master with glasses in his
machine work coat and always aspired to being like him............now he's
been almost replaced by the computer running machines.  More progress I
guess, but still it's nice to be able to use something like that kind of
vice for prototypes and dream that your clever once in a while.   :-)

Ralph


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Newman" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] What is it


> I am a patternmaker.   I have worked in three different shops and it does
> not look like any patternmaker vice I have seen.  I will take a picture of
a
> couple of the vices in our shop and post them.  It maybe a type I have
never
> seen but patternmaker vises are usually more like a large woodworking
vice.
>
> John N
>
> John Chobrda wrote:
>
> > It sound like a pattern makers vise.
> > JC
> >
> > [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > > http://pages.quicksilver.net.nz/geoffm/mikes%20vise.html
> > >  It is a vice owned by a friend of mine - no makers marks the front
> > > jaw is 2 half round bins which can be removed or rotated. Any ideas of
> > > what, why and so on?
> > > Geoff
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