In my last post I fabricated and submitted a couple of Carbide Insert Tool Holders, which is not a new invention by no means, just my version, I made a lifting fixture to hold the tool holders up off the milling machine table to machine the edges and to avoid cutting into the mill table, I thought after I was done that some sort of tool that would clamp work on its edge would be nice to have for times like this, so thats what intrigued me to make this tool I call the Edge Milling Vise.



The vises dimensions are 4 wide 6 long, the vise has hardened Jaws inserted into a recesses machined in the Base and Upper Jaw, there is a 5/8 alignment key in the bottom of the vises base to accurately locate it in the T-slots of the mill, the front of the Upper Jaw is machined at 45° to give sufficient clearance for milling close to the edge of the vise, the Upper Jaw can also slide in or out .375 to give additional milling cutter clearance, the sides of the upper jaw has been reduced in width from 4at the front to 2 ¼ in the rear to give away access to the two 1/2"socket head cap screws that holds the vise down on the mill table, the vise can be rotated to any angle by removing the 5/8 key from the bottom of the vise, the vise can be set at any angle with the useof a protractor, angle plate Etc.



The vises body was made from 1018 steel, the upper and lower jaw inserts were made from O-1 steel hardened and ground, the stud, nut and washer were made from 4140 steel.



I started out by grinding all surfaces of the vises base and upper jaw parallel and square, I machined a 5/8 alignment key slot in the base along with two 1/2" counter bored holes for mounting to the mill table, the 5/8 alignment key is secured in the keyslot with two 10-24 socket head cap screws, the base was then flipped over and inserted into the T-slot of the mill table and bolted down with two T-nuts and two 1/2 socket head cap screws, I completed all the machine work to the base while it was bolted down to the mill table before removing , the upper jaw was then fabricated along with all the other hardware items, this vise is solid and very rigid in construction and functions as intended,



I have included multiple photos of the machining process to make this vise along with a demonstration video.



As always thanks for looking and happy machining

Doug

















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