Making a screwless vise from salvaged cast iron
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 พ.ย. 2021
- I wanted a small screwless toolmakers/grinding vise for my benchtop surface grinder, and I had some leftover pieces of salvaged cast iron, so I made one. This is my submission for #toolfest2021, organized by Emma's Spareroom Machineshop: / emmaritson .
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I promise I'll still mostly make stuff out of rusty junk and not just buy shiny things with your money.
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Make something useful from junk. That's how we like it.
I’ve been fairly addicted to machining videos now for three years, and never seen someone recycle like you do, rather than do everything from fresh stock or at least something very close to final product. - Nobody’ fault but mine of course. Such an experience to watch it, I am so glad I found your channel!
Yeah, that was some of the most extreme stock squaring I've ever seen
1 2 3 block shenanigans is lovely to hear
well done, nothing spend, but some time and good planning
That was a good project! Way to get something done!
This is the kind of real world stuff that everybody tries to hide. Thanks for showing the poor man's methods, not just the flashy polished materials they got from a millionaire friend.
Very impressive turning those scrap pieces into something. That surface grinder is a gem!
I love the way you use scrap metal like that and make something satisfying out of it.
I love watching you machine cast iron....because I hate cleaning it off my machines, hahaha. Excellent videos...it's people like you that really convinced me to buy a lathe and a mill in the first place and now, couldn't imagine not having them.👍😁. Thanks for sharing the excellent work!!
Reworking old cast iron looks a bit like woodworking: you find an interesting chunk of 'organic' material full of splits and voids and keep slicing bits off until you're left with something clean and true and really quite beautiful.🙂
If you use the vice to clamp a 123 block and stick that to the grinder magnet you can grind the back end as it would be hanging over the edge gaining some extra height
Excellent job man, love the way you take junk and turn it into a jem..
Nice! Scrap metal challenge ... Gotta love it.
Thanks for sharing,
Cheers
Excellent!!! I like how you used scrap materials.
Those corners are just screaming for a filing.
Great to see you turn scrap into functional tools.
i dont know how many times ive watched this...love this project
I won’t be building this, but this is well presented & executed.
I love making things out of something that was thrown away!
Awesome. I really like how you leave just a lil imperfection in the materials to let it be know it wasn't a store bought item.
Looks amazing as usual
Great use of “ diamond in the rough” ! Like your skill, excellent!
I like the idea of the banjo fitting having a through hole, my commercially available one has a cross-pin and half-round grooves to seat in and that's a fussy arrangement.
Great work. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum yesterday :)
Fantastic results. Thanks for the angle block checking trick. I’ve never thought about it that way before. That’s very simple and robust way to check it. 👍👍😎👍👍
I like it...Ive never really tried making anything with cast iron...except a sculpture out of what turned out to be cast iron pipe and it didnt go well when I was trying to weld it together....it didnt become a sculpture..if I had known at the time, about nickel welding rods it might have worked, but thats a long time ago lol
Very good work. Using scrap that others would pitch is right in line with my way of doing things as well.
Quality tool from junk material, great build!
Awesome result Jeremy - very envious of your surface grinder setup! :)
Some great tips in this episode too: The knee/quill combo depth stop, and also using a bit of paper to test both ends of the angle block setup. Also the 123 block angle plate is a neat idea - and the borrowed idea to pin two 123 blocks together.
Wonderful results. From old rusty metal to a nice vise. Keep on keeping on.
Hats off to you my friend, I've never seen such bad stock turned into such beautiful tools 👍🏴
Had to make another comment this morning on the 25th,,,,Wow 3K views,,I had to come back and re-watch again (@@)! I have an old 83 Mercedes cast iron block,,and was going to toss it,,but after seeing you turn cast that looks like it came from the Titanic into a useful tool,,,I will cut it into usable cast,,thx for a tool entry..Bear.
Great job, interesting work. Enjoyed watching the scrap slowly transforming into vice components. Love your setups on the surface grinder. Never would have thought that was a rusty chisel lol. Tony
Really nice build! I'm liking the subtle This Old Tony vibes as well! 😁
I just found your channel, I hope you keep up the videos, I enjoy them very much. I spent 30 years in the Navy, most of it as a Nuclear Submarine Auxiliaryman, you would have been a welcome addition to my small, but resourceful division. We were often tasked with making something from nothing, because once you leave your homeport and pull the plug, you have to make do with what is on board. Well done Jeremy, keep up the fine work. Ken, Pearland Tx.
Great video sir! The 1-2-3 block stuff was awesome. As a machinist of three decades, my preferred term for that is 'creative fixturing'...lol. You keep up the great work sir!
Good job. Very inventive
My style of build. Didn't start that way by choice, for so long it was make do or do without. Done it that way for so long, it doesn't feel right starting something from new stock. At minimum, it at least has to be a drop.
Today's new material prices makes me even more determined to do it that way ...
Jeremy, turned out fantastic. Found you with the #ToolFest2021, One minute in I hit that sub and thumbs up button. I’ll be checking out your other videos as well. Love the use of scrap materials and leaving the little imperfections to preserve the character.
ATB….Dean
U have some cool old tools
Really top-notch work, Jeremy. Making useable tools from readily available scrap is very appealing!
Good piece of work and great to see all the scrap being reused
G’day Jeremy. Excellent work extracting a machine vise from scrap. Well done.
Cheers
Peter
WOW! Very inspiring. I like your ingenuity. Especially the conversion of 1-2-3 blocks to a right angle fixture.
An amazing transformation!
Nice work! most people wouldn't fight with stock like that.
Great work 👍👌
You have a very nice shop and the skills to go with it.
I love the character that the casting imperfections give it. Looks great!
excellent. watched your shaper vice build pt1, I just (almost) finished a vice for my boxford shaper.
Nice!
Great stuff! I'm just getting back into machine tool metal working and it's hard to find materials. I do have a bunch of cast iron: gears, heavy brackets, etc. and I've been cannibalizing them for stock. It's proving a fine source. One trick I found was using a high quality hole saw in the drill press to get round or cylindrical pieces. I clamp them well, run the press at it's slowest speed, and keep moderate but steady pressure on the bit. If the clamping is good you can run the cutter without the pilot drill.
thats awesome!!
That came out great! Nicely executed, especially starting from scrap. Thanks for sharing
Supporting Emmas Crew..... and i subscribed really nice work considering the stuck you found....i look forward to seeing your other work...
That's what I call recycling. And then turning trash to top notch tool.
Fantastic Build Jeremy! I'm inspired to make one now.
Awesome job! Love your work👏👏
That was amazing, one of the best I have ever seen, thank you
good job
Nice work 💪
One thing I learned is that at high temperatures you can burn the carbon out of the steel near the surface which prevents you from getting the steel as hard as you could get it.
Having a non reactive atmosphere to prevent oxidation is generally how you prevent burning the carbon off. You can also use a foil sac with something to burn the oxygen out of the bag so the part has a hard time oxidizing
Looks like a great tool, with the bonus that you can now use your surface grinder on non-ferrous materials. Perfectly cut copper D20's for your next D&D game! Alu-minimum D-10's!
Well done on all counts. Enjoyed it
That looks very presentable. Not a 100% perfect finish, but considering it was made from salvaged materials it's remarkably nice. I personally shy away from going overboard on home brewed tooling anyway. it's hard to use something in anger if you've put serious effort into making it immaculate.
It's like when I see folks refurbish old bench vices on TH-cam, and use car body filler to get a perfectly smooth surface, then polish any exposed metal to a mirror finish. After putting in that amount of work, there's no way they're ever going to use it for the purpose it was originally made for. They turned it into a show piece and nothing more. :(
Nice build, particularly as the starting material looked pretty awful! You have a new subscriber.
Nice job with what you had!
Thanks man you awesome !!
Very interesting project!
Liked what I saw👍🏻
Your mill is awesome I never seen one like that.
Liked, subscribed. Proper job.
Just remove the bits that don't look like a vice👍 More awesome magic
Wow thats cool
Very nice
Nice work. I just did some V-blocks from an old tractor counterweight. Cast iron sure makes a mess. I need to try a Silicon Carbide wheel. Thanks for the video.
Jeremy I was recommended this by YT, To me an impressive build, I was particularly interested to see you have a Index model 40, I bought one as a project ( still in bits ) and seeing what you did with it cutting wise has eased any doubts I had over its capabilities. Now to-scan the rest of your vids for more on your Index.
Hi Ian- your videos were very helpful when I was tearing down my machine to clean it when I got it. Mine was and still is very much a project as well, but even in a worn out state, it’s a capable little machine.
I really liked what i saw, and i subscribed right now. Nice job especially considering that you started with rusty junk lol, that's what i start all my projects from too, sure it'll take twice as long but it's cheap and readily available
Nice.
Can you not use the side of a surface grinder to grind that really tall dimension you couldn't get by fitting it beneath?
Good work, but it has a screw?
where is a good place to pick up old cast iron scrape or what should i look for when looking for cast iron scrape. ive just got into messing with this stuff an at this point i have a lathe and a mill but i guess u would say they are the cheapest machines u can buy to get into this type of stuff but so far ive been very surprised with how well they do so im happy with what i got but my biggest issue has been find material, dont have any local machine shops or even a place to buy the stock an the nearest to me is a 4 hour drive one way so if i was able to buy a bunch of stuff up it wouldn't be so bad but at this point its still a learning experience and i still have to pick stuff up like tooling an end mill bits for both the lathe an mill. i have enough to hold me over on tooling for the lathe an i just got the mill this past week so im alittle light on end mills but i have a set of 4 flute flat end mills from 1mm to 8mm and a set of ball nose end mills from .5mm to 3mm so i have something to work with but have alot of stuff yet to pick up like a good vise, i wanted to attempt to make my own but not enough material to pull that off atm but in time ill slowly accumulate all the stuff i need to work with right now im still learning the correct terms for the different types of cutting ends or end mills and what my machine can actually handle. its a wen 33013 4.5 amp mill so it wasn't the cheapest mill but it was the cheapest shipped to my door so i went with it, probably not the best way to pick a milling machine but everything else was over my budget once shipping was added so i went with the wen cause it was free shipping an came with both sets of the end mills so i feel like i came out alright an the mill has been perfect as far as a newby can tell at least.
Turned scrap into something very useful, great job! The bench top surface grinder caught my attention, what make and model is it?
It’s a Sanford SG48. I’ve a series of videos about going through the whole thing when I got it.
BTW. I also like that you reuse old resources. It gives a little bit more waste some times.
Nice Sanford SG! I have the same model. Where do you get your grinding wheels from?
eBay. It’s a hunt though.
Interesting video, however I'm not sure that using cast iron for any type of vice is a good idea. Cast iron is great in compression but hopeless for the opposite. I'm interested to know if it is has broken yet?
Actually, most vises are made of cast iron. This one is working great.
Thanks man. I use a milling machine at work and theres alot of wobble in the table any suggestions
First thing would be to check the adjustment in the gibs- Keith Rucker has a good video on that: th-cam.com/video/nqQ3HzoSnUc/w-d-xo.html. If that checks out, unfortunately, it’s probably wear on the machine, and the only way to fix that would be to rebuild it.
Just discovered your channel. Sub’d!
Is that a Sanford surface grinder?
It is. There are a few videos a ways back on it.
Is that a giant tote full of evaporust?
It’s basically a home brew evaporust.
@@JeremyMakesThings Would love to know the recipe! (Could it be an acid based formula like vinegar or citric?) I think evaporust is pH neutral - and works by chelating/chelation - whatever that means.
Noice indeed
The tightening screw has a screw.
You forgot to pin.
Now u have an excuse to buy one lol
I don’t know, I think you dead very well😁
who says you can't make a silk purse out of a pigs ear
I’m watching a video about milling cast iron and you have commercials about Barbie dolls ?
My friends at the shop don’t play with dolls on their coffee or lunch breaks.
where are you soircing all your cast scrap?
“Down by the river.” There are a couple of old paper mill sites near me that we’ve been working on cleaning up to turn into a park, and there’s a lot of interesting junk out there.
@@JeremyMakesThings indeed. that cast sprue woulda been a foundry relic no?
Oh yeah. There was also a foundry too. After it burned down the second time, the pushed the remains of it over into the remains of the paper mill.
@@JeremyMakesThings neat. northeast?
Yes. New Hampshire.
Well nice vise but kind a missleading to call it a screwless and thighten with a screw :D Screwless is some kind a cam action. I think this one is called as toolmakers vise, not 100% sure...
I'm seeing a screw
could you make me one 2 1/2" jaws .. $200 ? regards laurence
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No you cant be like THIS OLD TONY.. please give up
You’re absolutely right. No matter how hard I try, I can’t figure out the time travel thing.
@@JeremyMakesThings If you had a Clausing lathe, maybe you could find a way, you might even reach the stars...