Matt Calder
04-07-2007, 6:10 AM
All,
I am building a bench and have a question about how the vice should operate. When working with the vice, one turns the screw to tighten the vice on the work. However, when loosening the vice, is it traditional to unscrew and then pull the vice open, or should the vice jaw open as one turns the screw?
This question may sound odd, but I am making the vice from raw parts and I have it so that when the screw is turned it tightens, but when turning the screw in the opposite direction, nothing is pulling the vice jaw open. It is easy enough, once the screw is unscrewed, to pull the vice open by hand, but I'm uncertain if that is how it is supposed to work or not.
I could attach a collar to the vice's rod, and fit that under the flange that attaches to the vice jaw. That would provide pull when unscrewing. But in pictures I see of commercial vice parts, it does not appear to me that such an action is provided for. I don't want to make extra work for myself either.
I don't have any experience actually working with a vice of this type, and don't entirely trust my impressions of what stock vice hardware can and can't do. Any help would be appreciated.
Matt
I am building a bench and have a question about how the vice should operate. When working with the vice, one turns the screw to tighten the vice on the work. However, when loosening the vice, is it traditional to unscrew and then pull the vice open, or should the vice jaw open as one turns the screw?
This question may sound odd, but I am making the vice from raw parts and I have it so that when the screw is turned it tightens, but when turning the screw in the opposite direction, nothing is pulling the vice jaw open. It is easy enough, once the screw is unscrewed, to pull the vice open by hand, but I'm uncertain if that is how it is supposed to work or not.
I could attach a collar to the vice's rod, and fit that under the flange that attaches to the vice jaw. That would provide pull when unscrewing. But in pictures I see of commercial vice parts, it does not appear to me that such an action is provided for. I don't want to make extra work for myself either.
I don't have any experience actually working with a vice of this type, and don't entirely trust my impressions of what stock vice hardware can and can't do. Any help would be appreciated.
Matt