Hi, Mike Corliss with Tormach. Today we are going to talk about the Tormach V-Block set.
You have two clamps,
and two V-blocks.
And if you noticed, these clamps...
...slide in from the end here, or you can slide them in the middle,
through that channel on...
...on down, like that.
And they sit below, flush to the sides.
So you can lay this V-block on it's side like this.
It's resting right on the ground surface
...and the the clamp doesn't hit at all.
You can use the V-blocks for machining, for your workholding,
or for inspection purposes.,
or for doing layout, you could use your V-blocks for anything.
You can hold round parts or square parts.
If its got a 90 degree corner on it, it can rest in here and you can clamp down on...
...a square if you need to do something from an edge.
I'd say that's below flush, this side is sticking up.
So you've got to watch that when you tighten that up make sure you get the clamp...
...below the edges.
The other thing with the clamp below the edge here...
...you can clamp this whole block in a vise.
If you are doing work from the top,
or if you want to lay...
...the V-block down and do end work, you can clamp right across it.
Another thing you can do, seeing you have two v-blocks,
if you have a long shaft you can either clamp it...
with the clamps on the v-block and then clamp your v-blocks down on your...
...mill table or...
...you can just set your v-blocks up and then use your strap...
....clamps kit and then clamp your work piece down,
...your shaft down on top on them. And then either indicate your workpiece in...
...or you can indicate the v-blocks in for straightness.
If you wanted to do...
...something on opposing sides with the round stock.
You can put your v-block in here, as long as your clamp is sticking out.
And you can either clamp just the v-block,
like such,
or you can clamp right on your workpiece. Ok?
if it sits down in there far enough.
The reason this isn't clamping up is because these jaws have been modified.
If you had full length jaws it would be up past the tangent point.
and then you could clamp right across the workpiece, but anyways then you could machine...
on this side then without moving your piece...
...you can flip it over to the other side, pick up your zero...
...and then machine on your opposite side so you're....
...machining 180 degrees apart.
...so whatever features you're machining you know they'd be true to each other.
And then if you had end work to do or something...
and then you could always clamp on it like such. Or any combination.
If you don't have to move it in the v-block you know that your orientation...
is going to be true to each other
...no matter which way you rotate it.
So that's what you are going to use your v-block set for.
Either holding round pieces, inspecting round pieces,
grinding on them, machining on them, whatever you want to do with round parts.
Either on the end or from the sides or from the top.