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Got your attention eh?
Since fitting my Record vice to the bench, I've felt something was wrong. I couldn't get the faces parallel to the bench front without loads of packers
Couldn't see the problem as the horizontal mounting plate to the rear was dead perpendicular to the rear face of the rear jaw :?
Well, took it off today to make new faces for jaws and checked it out again. The problem is the rear jaw is not the same thickness top-to-bottom by at least 2mm :shock: So, with the vice mounted nice and tight to the bench, the bottom of the rear jaw stuck out 2mm. The front jaw closes flush to the rear one and so is also 2mm out when referred to the mounting plate :roll:
I ground a slope (2mm at rear down to 0mm at the rear face) off of the rear horizontal mounting plate that bolts under the bench using my angle grinder and all is finally well :wink:
Thought this might be useful info
Since fitting my Record vice to the bench, I've felt something was wrong. I couldn't get the faces parallel to the bench front without loads of packers
Couldn't see the problem as the horizontal mounting plate to the rear was dead perpendicular to the rear face of the rear jaw :?
Well, took it off today to make new faces for jaws and checked it out again. The problem is the rear jaw is not the same thickness top-to-bottom by at least 2mm :shock: So, with the vice mounted nice and tight to the bench, the bottom of the rear jaw stuck out 2mm. The front jaw closes flush to the rear one and so is also 2mm out when referred to the mounting plate :roll:
I ground a slope (2mm at rear down to 0mm at the rear face) off of the rear horizontal mounting plate that bolts under the bench using my angle grinder and all is finally well :wink:
Thought this might be useful info