Vise option
- Thread starter Metalistico
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I am the opposite. I have a pile of vices and not many vises! My best vise is definitely a vice....
Funny, cuz I really don't drink much at all, and I don't do any drugs either. But my favorite vice is definitely my bride! She is a keeper, and so I have. That said, she does like to keep the vise tight!
Prolly both...... Mind is younger than my body and body is younger than my mind. Either way they both lose because I'm always as naughty as possible......
Metalistico
Member
Your tooling will depend on what you want to make and how much you want to spend.
When I was machining for ExCellO we used to finish grind every cartridge and tool holder. Mind you we were making the cutters that CNC work centres used to turn out hundreds of products. The tolerances were in the ten-thousandths and had to be confirmed by several inspection procedures.
It is very expensive to be that accurate.
For us as hobbyists, that sort of precision is in another life.
When I was machining for ExCellO we used to finish grind every cartridge and tool holder. Mind you we were making the cutters that CNC work centres used to turn out hundreds of products. The tolerances were in the ten-thousandths and had to be confirmed by several inspection procedures.
It is very expensive to be that accurate.
For us as hobbyists, that sort of precision is in another life.
Metalistico
Member
I guess it's better to be addicted to vices than other things lol
Hmmmmm...... Is your addiction a vice or is your vice an addiction? And how do your vises feel about that?
I believe they are Taiwan. Possibly get re-labelled & re-distributed under different more recognizable labels. Sorry no firsthand knowledge/experience. I remember looking at a similar flyer a while back.
Dabbler
ersatz engineer
Janger and I each bought Autowell Kurt clones about 5 years ago. The Autowell was a whole .003 different from the Kurt, so they cannot be used together unless you make a custome riser block (which John did)
We both own a Kurt and the Autowell D666 clone, and so does Janger. We've compared notes and like them both. The Kurt is a smidge better, but you have to have them both side by side to notice.
We both own a Kurt and the Autowell D666 clone, and so does Janger. We've compared notes and like them both. The Kurt is a smidge better, but you have to have them both side by side to notice.
Gearhead88
Super User
I bought one of those years ago (2004) , had buyers remorse very soon afterwards . I still have it
Just before Christmas Kurt scratch and dent had the DX4 on for $505US so I put it in a cart to think about it. Bad move, I went back two days later and it was up to $535US. I thought sale scratch and dent would go down in price not up. Now I see they are sold out, as the saying goes - he who hesitates doesn't get a new vise. lol
Six O Two
(Marco)
I was really close to buying a Kurt scratch and dent before Christmas as well, while cross-shopping with Shar's Taiwan-made Tegara line at ~$320USD. With shipping, the Kurt vises start to seem more reasonable, because they do a flat $50USD shipping rate to Canada, whereas Shar's shipping was ~$150USD to Canada. I could have sworn the Kurt's S'n'Ds were <$500 when I looked though...
At the end of the day, I couldn't justify the extra cost of the Kurt for my hobby work. I bought the Shar's during their Black Friday sale. I'm not too far from the border, so I get it shipped to a US mailbox (domestic shipping was only $50) and the border opened up for a very short window before Delta and Omicron went nuts, enabling me to pick it up before Christmas. No complaints yet, but I haven't really put it through its paces.
At the end of the day, I couldn't justify the extra cost of the Kurt for my hobby work. I bought the Shar's during their Black Friday sale. I'm not too far from the border, so I get it shipped to a US mailbox (domestic shipping was only $50) and the border opened up for a very short window before Delta and Omicron went nuts, enabling me to pick it up before Christmas. No complaints yet, but I haven't really put it through its paces.
Six O Two
(Marco)
@LenVW - no official connection, other than having one in my garage and having an outsized fondness for it (bought used a few years ago. It came out of an IBM facility out east, but I don't really know any more about it than that). I think I read in one of your posts some of your affiliations with Ex-Cell-O, which is so amazing, and so great to have on this forum. One day, I'll have to give my machine some serious love (it likes to howl sometimes when I start it up), and I suspect when I finally make time for that, I'll have many, many questions.
I'm between Nelson and Castlegar BC.
That area of BC must be beautiful !!
My sister lives in Vancouver, near UBC.
I have been to Vancouver, Whistler and Vancouver Island, but it has been 40 years since I drove out to Vernon with two buddies from high school.
I know a guy here in Cambridge whose entire business is rebuilding #602’s.
Google: Preston Rebuilt Machinery - Roy Weidinger
Ex-Cell-O’s Special Tools Division in Clinton, ON was where I apprenticed as a machinist.
It closed sometime in the 1990’s when Ex-Cell-O was acquired by Textron.
My sister lives in Vancouver, near UBC.
I have been to Vancouver, Whistler and Vancouver Island, but it has been 40 years since I drove out to Vernon with two buddies from high school.
I know a guy here in Cambridge whose entire business is rebuilding #602’s.
Google: Preston Rebuilt Machinery - Roy Weidinger
Ex-Cell-O’s Special Tools Division in Clinton, ON was where I apprenticed as a machinist.
It closed sometime in the 1990’s when Ex-Cell-O was acquired by Textron.
Sorry, never been to Clinton, BC.
Clinton, Ontario is directly North of London on Highway #4.
Town of about 3000 and they used to have an annual Dutch Festival.
‘The Klompen Fest’ or Wooden Shoe Fair. There are a lot of descendants from the Netherlands around Clinton.
Clinton, Ontario is directly North of London on Highway #4.
Town of about 3000 and they used to have an annual Dutch Festival.
‘The Klompen Fest’ or Wooden Shoe Fair. There are a lot of descendants from the Netherlands around Clinton.