[GrizHFMinimill] Re: Drilling holes in toolmaker's vise

I'm still interested to hear more about the use case for drilling the holes in the first place. Those things are designed to be clamped to milling tables 6 ways to Sunday. LMS even gives you free plans for "clamping blocks" for the vise with the holes on the sides. If you have the slots (like mine), it's a no brainer. I made clamps out of U channel steel from Home D. I milled one leg almost away to go in the clamping groove on the vise and then bolted them to the table. $3.00 and 20 minutes. It's "adjustable" too.

--- In GrizHFMinimill@yahoogroups.com, "bbass408" <bbass408@...> wrote:
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> I'm sure it's doable. But, from LMS, they're hardened to Rc 58-62 which is "pretty hard." :)
> That's about as hard as a drill bit or a nice kitchen knife. That might be hard to drill, but others might have other opinions. I'd imagine those vises would have to be hard enough to avoid being marred by the steel we clamp in it.
> Which flavor do you have? Holes on the side? Slots on the side?
>
>
> --- In GrizHFMinimill@yahoogroups.com, "adamlinus" <adam.cherubini@> wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone tried to drill holes through the bed of a toolmaker's vise to attach it like a Hermann Schmidt vise? Are these vises cast? Ductile iron? Steel? I know milling slots is tricky.
> >
> > Adam
> >
>

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