All I can say... Is that I have had the cheap vices and tried to get one ground even to be flat and square. The reality tho is that if you really want to make parts and not screw around with things and waste time, the Kurt vises and some of the other top end vises are worth every single thin penny you pay for them. Believe me when I tell you this. A cheap vise WILL wind up costing you more than a quality one either in time spent or replacing it with a quality vise when you finally get totally frustrated with it and pull your last hair out trying to get it flat and square. It is just that simple. I WISH I had saved my pennies and just bought a kurt the first time around I would have made a whole bunch of more accurate parts and been able to rely on things being flat square plumb etc etc. instead of spending lots of time trying to shim stuff and tap and beat on it until it is where I needed it where the kurt would have put it exactly where I needed it the very first time. I know $500.00 plus is a tough pill to swallow sometimes but believe me if you are serious about milling even a little bit you will smile and thank yourself every time you clamp something up in it. Don't even get me started about jaw deflection and parallelism let alone clamping force. I recently worked in a pro shop for awhile and the guys there used to chuckle at me because I had a habit of killing the part in the vise with the vise handle because I was so used to having to really dog down on my cheap ass vises not realizing that the kurt imparts the vast majority of the torque you put into the handle into the clamping force. It really is a beast of a vise and the tendency to murder the parts having been used to the cheap vise and having parts occasionally come loose while heavy milling puts the fear of God into you so you get kinda overzealous LOL. The kurt takes away all of these problems and just holds the parts securely and squarely the first time with even a light touch on the clamping handle. Nuffsaid. Peace
Pete On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 7:31 AM, Stephen Dubovsky <smdubov...@gmail.com> wrote: > All Kurt vises are keyed on the bottom. They even sell the keys in > different stepped widths IIRC. My import vises are also keyed the same > (but included the keys and have to be ground down if you have something > other than a bridgeport sized slot.) So maybe the guy wasn't so clever;) > They do repeat very well w/ the keys. > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 7:06 AM, Marius Liebenberg <mar...@mastercut.co.za > > > wrote: > > > I saw a clever plan once where the guy attached a square piece of steel > > to the bottom of the vise. The steel fits the table T slot precisely. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and > search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck > Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code > search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
