Enjoyed your video once again! I went to your web site and was quite impressed with your background and different experiences in different fields. Do you ever sleep? How about T.V. do you watch it at all? How about entertainment? Take care my friend!
I'm glad you enjoyed my video, I hope you found it useful. My website makes me look really busy, but you have to realize it represents 25 years of time. I'm actually really laid-back and yes, I do watch TV and TH-cam a lot! :)
Hi Guy. Great idea! How about boring a hole in the center of both vise jaws (very slightly below jaw surface, same as you did in your holders) and inserting/gluing the neodymium magnets for parallels into the vise jaws themselves? That would eliminate any interference of holders hitting themselves when clamping something small into vise.. (You could use a smaller magnet than you used to avoid parallels being difficult to remove from vise?) You may have opposing polarity issues when clamping something small though..? I've never tried obviously, but just a thought. Great vid and thanks!
Thanks for that thought. I would be concerned about crushing the magnets inadvertently when gripping something non-parallel to the jaws. You really don't want to break a neodymium magnet! They are very sharp and very dangerous when broken.
@@GuyMarsdenMakesStuff Ahhh. good point. In that case how about a small magnet in the parallels themselves? I realize that would be a pain to add one to every parallel.. but makes me wonder.. instead of magnetized parallel keepers, why not magnetized parallels? A 1/16" x 1/8" thick round neodymium magnet embedded in each parallel would provide enough force to not fall over..? Can you press fit a neo magnet into a hardened parallel? or maybe CA them in? I might try it here in the shop.
@@greg20152015 Greg, I wouldn't recommend that approach either for two reasons. First your parallels would be sticking to everything in the workshop, including each other! Second, one occasionally uses parallels in the vise to grab something and the magnets would risk being damaged. Also, press fitting doesn't seem to be practical due to the odd sizes that magnets come in, this is why I glued mine in with thickened CA glue to fill the gaps in the hole drilled by the nearest fractional size drill I had. Perhaps I should've looked for a metric drill that would have worked, and I don't know if that would have worked.
The other issue is it'll be a pain to remove steel chips from machining when changing parts or set ups. At least with his design they'd be collecting chips off to the side and not where you're going to be holding work pieces.
Short and sweet! Clear footage and good commentary. Thanks for sharing.
sweet project ,,, thanks Guy
Thanks, I'm using these little items quite often now.
Enjoyed your video once again! I went to your web site and was quite impressed with your background and different experiences in different fields. Do you ever sleep? How about T.V. do you watch it at all? How about entertainment? Take care my friend!
I'm glad you enjoyed my video, I hope you found it useful. My website makes me look really busy, but you have to realize it represents 25 years of time. I'm actually really laid-back and yes, I do watch TV and TH-cam a lot! :)
Very nice thanks for the video
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Not bad at all.
Hi Guy. Great idea! How about boring a hole in the center of both vise jaws (very slightly below jaw surface, same as you did in your holders) and inserting/gluing the neodymium magnets for parallels into the vise jaws themselves? That would eliminate any interference of holders hitting themselves when clamping something small into vise.. (You could use a smaller magnet than you used to avoid parallels being difficult to remove from vise?) You may have opposing polarity issues when clamping something small though..? I've never tried obviously, but just a thought. Great vid and thanks!
Thanks for that thought. I would be concerned about crushing the magnets inadvertently when gripping something non-parallel to the jaws. You really don't want to break a neodymium magnet! They are very sharp and very dangerous when broken.
@@GuyMarsdenMakesStuff Ahhh. good point. In that case how about a small magnet in the parallels themselves? I realize that would be a pain to add one to every parallel.. but makes me wonder.. instead of magnetized parallel keepers, why not magnetized parallels? A 1/16" x 1/8" thick round neodymium magnet embedded in each parallel would provide enough force to not fall over..? Can you press fit a neo magnet into a hardened parallel? or maybe CA them in? I might try it here in the shop.
@@greg20152015 Greg, I wouldn't recommend that approach either for two reasons. First your parallels would be sticking to everything in the workshop, including each other!
Second, one occasionally uses parallels in the vise to grab something and the magnets would risk being damaged. Also, press fitting doesn't seem to be practical due to the odd sizes that magnets come in, this is why I glued mine in with thickened CA glue to fill the gaps in the hole drilled by the nearest fractional size drill I had. Perhaps I should've looked for a metric drill that would have worked, and I don't know if that would have worked.
The other issue is it'll be a pain to remove steel chips from machining when changing parts or set ups. At least with his design they'd be collecting chips off to the side and not where you're going to be holding work pieces.
thieres end mill bits that are desgned to act as a drill that are flat on the business end with no center hole