MAKING A GIANT VISE 4 of 4

welcome back to the shop everybody today is gonna be a super fun day because we're finally gonna be able to get to crush something in the big giant vise it's sitting on a trailer from powder coat and all we have to do is put it together and we're ready to go so let's go to it [Music] so the vice is coming together awesome but there's one more personal touch that i'd like to add to it [Music] [Music] my [Music] crush [Music] oh i am so excited to show you this awesome vise take a look at all its cool features it's red it's beautiful it's pinstriped it's nickel plated it's gigantic it's heavy and it's beautiful all wrapped into one and remember this started off as a piece of rusty plate steel that was sitting underneath that material rack over there and now look what it's transformed into but not only does it have to be beautiful looking it needs to function and it needs to be operational because this is a machine shop so let me walk you through what i did and why i didn't do some things and let's start with the wheel and i'll show you how it works so i put a wheel on here instead of a traditional handle look how fast i can move the jaw in and out with a quick flywheel turn there's no way a traditional handle you can turn it that fast and i can operate from any side with both hands and the thrust bearings inside here make it super easy to turn i mean for a big girl this jaw moves rather fast and there is a lot of weight moving and it feels effortless and it's also lower than the jaw so if you're swinging a hammer you're not going to be hitting it so it's a great height and i think the 16 inches is going to give me enough leverage to still put some serious clamping load on with this five threads per inch so that's why there's a wheel on here i think it looks stunning and it makes the spice look unique another question i want to address is that this meat between the pin and the top of this frame is too thin and it's just gonna break right off well let me tell you what it actually measures that's eight and a half inches of inch and five eighths plate times two so that's over three and a half inches thick plate plus this three quarter that it's sitting on that you're going to have to bend all with a 16 inch little tiny wheel over here with a little one-inch screw it's not about the screw it's about the hydraulic jack that thing will bend this frame well no it won't because you could literally take this frame right here run a saw up it remove this whole back of this vise because it's not needed because remember this arm is connected to this pin when you push down on the jack the pin wants to go down when the arm goes in and pushes on the jaw the pin wants to go backwards so there's a lot of down and back force which does nothing to do with this up here okay this pin would stay in place even if you cut it out and it just sat in the saddle so there's nothing that's really crazy in here for being too thin i just have it this thick and wide because i think it looks good so i built this vise to have a 30 inch throat so from the top of the jaw down to the bottom of this valley we have 30 inches so let me show you what can fit in something like this we can hold a giant piece of sheet metal maybe we want to turn it to its side that's handy or what about a weird fabricated piece of tube steel how about here what about something tall and narrow so having that deep throat is extremely useful but what happens if the machine is just physically in its own way much like if you want to wrap something through here around well this vice has another trick up its sleeve so let me show you by taking off the eight socket headed cap screws we can offset the jaws and have a throatless sideless vise so let me show you what we can do with this or we'll use the table legs again and now it moves the work out closer to us and we can access the whole part that we're working on now the vise really allows us to clamp our parts that are really virtually floating in space so we can use the jaws much like a lathe chuck to where we can use the outside of the jaws to clamp on the inside of parts and by pinning the screw so that we can pull we can now hold parts on the inside diameter and spread apart and hold that way too we have a ton of jaw options to be able to bolt down into these holes the options are literally endless so i can clamp this tube between the two jaws traditionally around the outside but because this is thin wall and maybe it's a little bit wobbly and you really don't want to put a lot of pressure on it we can put the jaw on the inside and clamp on just the sidewall this providing a much higher clamping load without the worry of crushing the tube so it's pretty strong strong enough to sit on the end of it and not even tip the vice over so you got a lot of work holding options when you have the jaw sticking out like this which i think is my favorite way to have the vice in this configuration so i'm probably going to make a longer set of jaws to capture all four bolt holes so there's one thing i want to share with you guys that you can't necessarily see on camera and that's how dainty and delicate the spice really is about holding small parts and how this works is the jaw follows the screw because of gravity so there's zero backlash so any little motion in the wheel turning left or right the jaw is moving so it's extremely handy for holding even small parts such as like screws or nuts or bolts i can pinch right on the edge and really dial in the feel without crushing it just by a little bit of motion and the jaw follows my every movement the biggest vice in the shop has the most sensitivity so we know it has a real soft touch but let's see how much power she can generate test your strength i can't see where i'm at holy moly 12 884 pounds so what does 12 800 pounds mean well if you look back to our amazon testing vice series that broke almost all of them so that is a serious number let's see how nice it is to loosen up like a breeze okay let's test the air over hydraulic jack okay so that's where we're at with the air 22 000 there's 30 000 so the jack was 30 219 pounds and that's perfectly in line because this is a 32 ton jack the mechanical advantage is cut in half because of the arm length so that's perfectly acceptable remember this is not a press it's a clamp and if i ever need 30 000 pounds of holding power then i'm working on something serious but i know i have it if i want it and i know just with the air i get 20 000 pounds so that's pretty good what does all that force and pressure and work holding actually mean well nothing unless you're able to do something with it and a common thing is to maybe bend a big piece of one inch by two flat bar so i would like to bend this over onto itself and literally fold it in half with using the vise so let's fire up the forge put some heat into it and bend it over [Music] [Music] ready for another one see we can make blacksmith christmas ornaments you know we'll just paint some spiral lines on there and hang it on the christmas tree but to be real this would be extremely difficult to bend something like this in that shorter period of time right over on top of itself i like what i see so i want to do some fun crushing with the vise since we did all this work so i want to start with these few items of course we've got to crush a can why not some goofy tape i want to elongate it turn it into a pile of mush a 2x4 piece of hard oak of course i want to do a ball crusher and the harbor freight vice from the vice test so let's start with the easy the can it's as flat as it's gonna get since we're machinists so an eighth of an inch some goofy tape that's so weird looking watch this and go turn it inside out a gross mess on the inside of that that is so weird 2x4 smash test so good kindling look at that i bet you can start a fire in there really easily that's too easy piece of hard oak oh look at that so let's smash some balls but i need a little more protection so let's get some face coverings much better vice protection i don't know we'll find out [Laughter] and the harbor freight vice from the vice test all right little buddy bite down on this this is gonna hurt good thing i had my protection on oh that was so cool we broke it we broke it well we knew that wasn't going to last for very long feel like a kid again this was so fun to be able to use the tool try it out test it experiment see how much clamping force this puppy has and i absolutely love building things just like this but i have many more ideas and i hope you guys join me for all of them so i'll see you next time you

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Id: j77I_S03D8k

Length: 15min 16sec (916 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 17 2020