Patrick Walsh
05-02-2018, 9:35 PM
Anyone try and retrofit the benchcrafted leg vise with bearings as to avoid racking.
I may not be thinking straight here so feel free to correct me if so.
And don’t get me wrong the benchcrafted stuff is great. However the leg vise will rack a bit if you clamp a work piece off to just one side vrs in the middle like say a moxon.
I have thought many times that if the plastic guide bush that goes in the front side of the leg proper was a bearing it would eliminate any slop in the vise. Now I never thought this all the way through but I am right now.
I suppose that would not work as the threaded part of the screw would be traveling through the inner race of the bearing. Still if something to the affect could be done it would make a already great vise perfect!
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I may not be thinking straight here so feel free to correct me if so.
And don’t get me wrong the benchcrafted stuff is great. However the leg vise will rack a bit if you clamp a work piece off to just one side vrs in the middle like say a moxon.
I have thought many times that if the plastic guide bush that goes in the front side of the leg proper was a bearing it would eliminate any slop in the vise. Now I never thought this all the way through but I am right now.
I suppose that would not work as the threaded part of the screw would be traveling through the inner race of the bearing. Still if something to the affect could be done it would make a already great vise perfect!
385191