Cool little vise

[BobWarfield]

Some time ago I ordered a Forster's "Swiv-o-ling" vise and promptly stuck it in the drawer. I'd read about it in a gunsmithing book and it sounded handy if I ever needed to tune up some little action parts.

As I've gotten down to the short strokes on the Team Build, I wanted to clean up some of my connecting rods with a file. They're tiny little parts and hard to fool with. Out came the little Swiv-o-ling and suddenly it was easy to work on them with my head loupe and needle files.

As you can see, it's basically a machinist's parallel clamp made into a vise:

I like to clamp mine down to my tool grinder's table just because it is a convenient height for me to stand and work on things.

I got mine from Midway, but an enterprising fellow could make one easily enough.

Very handy for fooling with small parts!

Cheers,

BW

 

[DICKEYBIRD]

Hoo-ahhh, I like that one. Sigh, something else to go on the "things to make" pad hanging on my bench.

 

[Bernd]

Pretty neat commerical one there Bob.

In Elmer's Engines book in the back he shows how to make 5 fifferent size parallel clamp vices. Bascially the same comcept as what you show, except his are held in a bench vise.

Bernd

 

[Hexbasher]

lol,

when i have to debur these 625 (inconel) split rings for a customer (pump manufacturer) i hold on to them with a parallel clamp and clamp the clamp on a bench vise.

 

[Quasi]

Guy Lautard sells plans for something similar.

 

[Cedge]

Bob...
Drill the top of the jaws to take 3/16 dowel pins, 20 per jaw and you'll find a hundred more uses for that little vise. Rounds and odd shapes are a snap to clamp with that simple mod.

Steve

 

[John S]

I have a couple of these quick clamps

http://www.arceurotrade.co.uk/Catalogue/New-Products/Vices-and-Clamps

I don't do a lot of small work but these are handy moving between machines and the vise etc.

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[BobWarfield]

Excellent ideas John and Steve!

I would wager we could do a thread on nothing but as many different kinds of workholding as people could come up with and it would be quite interesting.

Best,

BW

 

[Tin Falcon]

A queston I remember enco having a tool to clean up bolt threads I looked on line and in the catalog and can find the thing now i want to order one similar to this http://www.rssupplyinc.com/thread_mate.aspx any ideas guys ?
Tin