I should have done this to my Vise sooner!

welcome back everybody today is going to be fun because i make an attachment to tilt my vise i'm getting the water jet the big mill and the lathe all fired up to bring this idea to life the vice that i want to tilt is a prototype that i built two years ago that i made right here in this shop i built the vice to test out some design concepts that i had to see if they worked i tried to torture it to failure with no luck so now the vise is back into the spotlight to help with another prototype so i would like to build a tilting vise plate for my vise i wanted to tilt forwards and backwards and of course i wanted to be nice and strong so in order to do this i need a nice heavy duty piece of plate steel that the vise is going to mount to and then to control the orientation of that vise we're going to need to weld something 90 degrees to that base plate this is going to give us our pivot points and our nice slot to be able to orientate the vise in any position we want to put it in and then to secure this whole thing to the table we're going to need a really nice heavy duty piece of plate steel that gets welded right to the side now this is going to be able to look nice it's going to feel good it's going to look like part of the vise as a whole unit so let's go into cad drop these components and see what we come up with i want to build the bracket in virtual space so i'm using a tool called solidworks this gives me a better understanding of how the parts fit together and check for weld and part interferences once i'm happy with the way the part looks i can save the file as a dxf this turns the cad model into a language that the water jet can read this machine is called the mach 500 it gets its name from the jet being able to travel five times faster than the speed of sound the water jet is pretty awesome it's going to take that dxf file and follow a path and use 94 000 psi of water and garnet to slice through this one inch thick plate steel in order for this design to work properly a thick plate i think is absolutely mandatory this is going to keep the vibration movement out of the whole assembly when it's all fit together if you're interested more on this technology i have a video talking about the ins and outs and all the little details on how this machine works this is the top plate that the vise gets mounted on i'm going to tap these half 13. i'm going to use a tool called the tapper these are the two taps that i use the most and they're both spiral flute taps so this one the chips go out the front this one the chips go out the back so if you have a blind hole you'll use this one if you have a through hole generally use this one okay here we go pushing in with the drill and then when i want to reverse i just pull back i believe this champion tapper has a maximum capacity of a half inch tap before i do any welding i want to remove all the mill scale that are on the parts so that i can paint it and weld through it i'm going to try to remove this thick mill scale with this diamond wire wheel made by ferd yeah that's right these wires have diamonds on them [Music] the wire brush requires a little bit slower speed so a variable speed grinder is necessary the brush actually does a pretty good job at removing the mill scale but my only complaint is that this thing is really expensive another problem we have to address is the sharp corners that the water jet creates the best tool i've found to remove that sharp corner is this pneumatic chamfering tool i like it better than using just a normal grinder with a flap disc it can do outside and inside features that the flap disc just can't reach it leaves a more consistent edge and i think it looks good too this is the working pivot piece and it gets attached through this pin right here so as this pivots this is what's going to allow everything to tilt on this dog bone this plate is going to theoretically sit flat on the table and then when it tilts it will roll forward and become 90 degrees something like that but if you were to make this piece for yourself everything in between here is virtually not needed but i like the way it looks so just be an l shape let's start assembling this thing to see what we have to do i'm going to save myself a lot of time so i'm going to add a 3 8 of an inch overhang and what this is going to allow me to do is put a nice good fillet weld in here that's a really strong joint this is just a detail that i like to add instead of this nice smooth rollover joint [Applause] this is the bracket that's going to be doing all the pivoting and i'm going to weld it right here to the side there's a relief in there to weld same with the bottom and that weld that's what this notches before it's literally ready to assemble the weld doesn't interfere with anything and then when i go to weld this bracket on to the table it's going to do the same thing for this one so what i'd like to do is have this stud welded inside this hole to where the non-threaded section is the bearing surface and then we're going to make a custom handled nut these threads are obviously too long so let's get this all mounted together cut this short and weld it inside of this piece [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] now that everything's held together like it's supposed to i can now weld this thing to the side of the table so let's weld it on and we'll test her out i have our little dog bone bracket welded to the side of the table this face of the bracket is now a face of the table i think that looks amazing the problem with this is that when this gets rolled up there's an interference in order to eliminate this interference fit my original idea was just to grind the edge of the table away after careful consideration i don't think i like the way this is going to look so i'm going to build the clearance into the vise plate itself i'm going to put the clearance into the plate by creating a groove with an end mill this definitely would have been a lot easier before the two plates were welded together i need a slot that's an inch and quarter wide and about a half inch deep and this big cincinnati machine makes real quick work of that machining on inside corners is really tricky so having that really long end mill is really handy so this is a the clearance that i was looking for let's go test it okay see please baby pivot oh yes spilled build spilled builds built [Music] so let's talk about how this vice doesn't shift around and locks into place this is a shoulder bolt cool thing about it is it this does not require the bolt to be tight to lock it into place and the shoulder of this bolt registers inside of this three-quarter hole now the beauty about this is that once you remove the shoulder out of the hole the vice can pivot this is the exciting part we get to test it out and see how it performs so this is the standard orientation that i'm probably going to use the vice in most of the time but if i do want to flip it over to do some filing or hold the work like a sandwich all we got to do is loosen up this lock pin which is the pivot the slot and then we can twist it or tip it it's very light it's really easy to do and operate before i tip it i can loosen the swivel base up and i can flip it around now that is snazzy lock the bolts down so she doesn't move on us then we can test how rigid it is that is pretty secure i feel that that's not going anywhere this is not an orientation that i'd be doing pounding on or anything this is more for work holding but man that one-inch plate feels great helps to have this huge mass of the table anchoring this vise down so in this orientation we can put something flat which is much more convenient for filing or any other work orientation that requires something to work around the edges and go in the vice like this the handle is really easy to operate from the top let's take this out and let's turn the vise 90 degrees loosen up the joints now this is cool because now we have basically a throatless vise now we can put a piece of long stock or rod in here oh that is so cool this has a unique feature that i kind of like it moves the work away from the table so if you wanted to get your chair in here really convenient oh i'm digging this even better i like it and then of course we can go halfway in between maybe we want to hold it at a 45 on the swivel you can go there much easier to file like this i know you're probably saying jason go buy that erwin vice that positions those jaws up and down and all around and i would agree with you yes that's a great vice but what it doesn't do is position the jaws like this and this is what's the main goal for building this whole contraption is getting the jaws in this orientation still going what do we want to put in here anything we want if you wanted to ream these holes out or drill holes maybe you wanted to chamfer all of those much easier for some operations i like being able to choose what orientation you want to work in very cool well guys that was a lot of fun building this bracket but before you guys go i have one more thing that i'd like to show you that i've been working on for three years now so roll the tape [Music] so [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Fireball Tool

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Keywords: fireball, tool, Fireball tool, Welding, vise tilt, cincinnati mill, giant lathe, hardtail vise, waterjet, mach 500, machine a vise, big red vise, worlds biggest vise, buy vise, vise pivot, 90 degrees, tapping gun, drill tap, slow motion waterjet, candy red paint, extreme vise, acer mill

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Length: 12min 3sec (723 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 09 2021