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Tidy!
Good and sturdy too. A job like that would be so much harder with power tools.
 
DTR":1n72kpuk said:
*I'll try to make this one a bit more 8-year-old proof. Just as a precaution ;)
Cover it in tin foil and wire into the 240 mate. My kids won't go near the electric sockets now. Or the fridge. Or the Sofa. Or the floor. Or their school packed lunch boxes. In fact I have them holed up in a wardrobe most of the time but that's another story. Just don't let the social know.
Nice work as always Dave.
 
Bm101":9e2pt82s said:
DTR":9e2pt82s said:
*I'll try to make this one a bit more 8-year-old proof. Just as a precaution ;)
Cover it in tin foil and wire into the 240 mate. My kids won't go near the electric sockets now. Or the fridge. Or the Sofa. Or the floor. Or their school packed lunch boxes. In fact I have them holed up in a wardrobe most of the time but that's another story. Just don't let the social know.
Nice work as always Dave.


:lol: :lol:
 
Bm101":24lqq12u said:
DTR":24lqq12u said:
*I'll try to make this one a bit more 8-year-old proof. Just as a precaution ;)
Cover it in tin foil and wire into the 240 mate. My kids won't go near the electric sockets now. Or the fridge. Or the Sofa. Or the floor. Or their school packed lunch boxes. In fact I have them holed up in a wardrobe most of the time but that's another story. Just don't let the social know.
Nice work as always Dave.


:lol:

Thanks chaps
 
Putting things near a washing machine, kitchen sink or vegetable rack works wonders for keeping things safe from kids (teenagers mostly). They rarely go near them by choice!
 
When I was making the toys further up-thread, I had to borrow Doris' carving vice several times to work on the smaller parts. I've decided I need something of my own, albeit simpler. I am shamelessly ripping off Benchcrafted's Hi-Vise (sic), who themselves ripped it off from an old French design:

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Here's the work so far. I'm using ash offcuts left over from my workbench. When I first made my leg vice many moons ago, I had a pair of parallel guide pins made up by a local blacksmith; I'll be using the spare in this vice.

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This looks really great Dave, thanks for showing (could be very useful for me). Please excuse my ignorance, but where will the parallel pins go, each side of the threaded shaft (the jaws look pretty narrow for enough space there)?

AES
 
Thanks AES. The parallel guide is the bit with all the holes drilled in it. It's a sliding fit through the fixed jaw at the back; its purpose is to keep the front jaw aligned as opposed to spinning in the breeze (think of the guide bars on a regular iron vice). The iron pin is inserted through one of the holes; when the vice is tightened up the front jaw will pivot around the pin slightly to apply pressure at the top of the jaw. This is a larger version, but maybe it's a bit clearer? The iron pin is just visible at the bottom of the moving jaw:

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Thanks for that Andy. All even clearer now. It never fails to amaze me that so many "good ideas" are so old. "What WILL they think of next"?

AES
 
In a slight deviation from the original plan, I've decided to add a crossbeam to aid clamping down to the bench (another idea pinched from Benchcrafted)....

Chopped some housings:

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Marked out for the mortise that receives the nut:

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And a dry fit:

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(please disregard the random screwholes; they are relics of an offcut's previous life)

All that's left to do now is to make a tommy bar and make a garter to capture the leadscrew.
 
Finished vice!

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When I made the parallel guide, I copied the hole spacing from the leg vice on my bench. However I found in practice that the holes were too far apart to on a vice this small. It works fine on the leg vice because its length allows a greater swing around the pivot (the iron pin). The solution was to add an intermediate row of holes in the parallel guide, in between the original two rows. The three rows are closer together than I would like, but as all the stress is directed in line with the grain it will hopefully be ok. I've subjected the vice to some experimental aggressive drawknifing and it performed admirably :D
 
The latest, top-secret project at Smiling Gorilla Industries....

A stick, with some proportions laid out with dividers and a sector:

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Drilled some holes:

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Drew an arc on each end and planed down to the line:

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I cut the stick into to two and started whittling. As it was nice outside I decided to clamp my new vice to a sawhorse and whittle outside 8)

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After some drawknife and spokeshave work, I ended up with a pair of these:

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To be continued......
 
DTR":1bfpexnp said:
The latest, top-secret project at Smiling Gorilla Industries....
Oooooh. A mystery. Sweet.
Don't tell Bob though he's already losing it on NoLegs tail end vice thread trying to guess what the tail end vice might turn out to be in case it's not a tail end vice.... :D

Ps, That's a Macaque. :wink:
https://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2 ... -stand-up/
If you haven't seen this madness take a read.
PETA. Not just deluded nutcases but misinformed deluded nutcases. Whoda thunk it?

Look forward to updates. :D
 
That vice really looks good Dave. Very nice "clean" work - idiots like me can only aspire to such standards.

=D>

No idea what the 2 new bits are. Sunnybob will definitely be jumping up and down once he sees them (if he's not already fallen asleep in his pool) :)

AES
 
:roll: If that's meant to be a rope ladder, I'm sorry but it will be too short to be any use... :wink:
 
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