Hello. I'm Mike Corliss with Tormach. Today I'm going to talk...
...about toolmaker vises and how to use them in a mill.
A toolmakers vise is a precision ground vise.
it's
it's good for holding delicate parts because you're clamping pressure is...
really easy to control. You just use an allen wrench to tighten it.
and for uh... parts that you really want to make sure...
...are oriented the way you want them.
Because you can orient them in the vise and then just clamp the vise...
in your workholding in the machine.
And if you've got a surface grinder, we use them all the time in a surface grinder.
We have three different size toolmaker vises with this style.
The smaller one, the larger one and then the in-betweener.
They're all,
basically the same just different sizes.
And they're precision ground,
all sides and and and so you can set these flat,
you can set them on their sides,
set them on their ends.
They've all got a threaded hole on the sides,
so you can put, um..
a little strap clamp with a bolt
and use them for stops if you are doing more than one piece.
you have a stop bolted to the side and just slide your piece against that stop.
Or one off each side. Pinch it.
If you had a pin,
That you wanted to clamp on the v groove here.
And now with it like this
you can put it in the machine,
you can do your work on this side,
take the whole vise out of your vise...
tip it up.
and then do end work on it and then you know it's oriented ninety degrees
from where you
did the first work.
Same with this flat piece...
you can set the vise in...
..the vise. You can clamp it this way.
machine the end off, do whatever end work you want to,
unclamp it from your vise,
rotate the toolmakers ninety degrees and do your side work,
and you know everything is ninety degrees andeverything going to be perfect
the locking mechanism for the vise
it just slides in here. And when you get to the correct size...
...for your piece
it locks up in and you tighten your bolt against the groove.
You clamp it in the vise this way
and if you wanted to change parts
...the movable jaw in the tool makers vise is smaller...
the mill vise is clamped up on the solid jaw.
...so the moveable jaw...
...still moves. you can loosen it up.
There we go..
Just like that.
It's in.
It's still clamped in the vise
With the moveable jaw you can still loosen and tighten.
Flip the vise over ninety degrees,
just like that and do the work on this face.
Then you know it's perpendicular to whatever work you just did.
Good.
and too
Toolmakers vises...
...are very versatile for small intricate work,
delicate work.
But you don't have a lot of clamping force, so don't think you can put a block in here and do a lot of heavy milling. It'll slip out on you.
If you use them on a surface grinder with a magnetic chuck
the magnetism will draw up through these vises so you can grind.
uh... it'd help hold your workpiece...
...down in the grinder.
Aluminum...
it's not going to help you a bit. There's nothing to help with the magnetism of aluminum.
it holds you vise down well but it's not going to increase you holding power.
So steel.
Just steel. Just iron.
and that's uh... a quick into for what toolmaker vises are used for.