[TheForge] Vertical Vice made with acme threaded bolt

[Dann Johnson]

Catching up on my reading over New Years'   I found an article on building 
a Vertical Vice in the  Fall 2003 issue of the Hammer's Blow  by  Brian 
Gilbert.

Back a while,  perhaps in October,  there was a list topic about using 
large acme threaded bolts to make a vice.   I have a handful of good leg 
vices,  so building my own didn't  seem a priority.  However this Vertical 
Vice  to hold long stock perpendicular  looks worthwhile .  The back jaw is 
made to be changeable.. slides up and off  the  square stock.  The front 
jaw is also changeable, but is a pivot  up and down so that the jaws can 
maintain a good bite on compound shapes.  He had a photo of a  hammer 
handle held secure: sticking straight up in the vertical jaws.

Imagine a leg vise made from 1.5 inch thick solid square stock, 
with  Vertical Jaws... powered by a  1  1/8  inch diameter acme 
bolt.   Brian Gilbert welded a 14 inch diameter hand wheel  Tee'd off  from 
the acme bolt.

Also on my "to do" list is rescue the baby chick brooder from the 
grove.   After reading recent posts  , I  see it as a  5 foot 
diameter  hood suspended above my gas forge.

Dann Johnson