XY table revisited

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Peter Fairbrother - 30 May 2006 09:14 GMT

There was a thread about XY tables recently - just saw this on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7623960192&ssPageN
ame=STRK:MEWA:IT

which is an XY vice. They call it a two-way machine vice.

It's only 3 inch size, and it isn't exactly a piece of precision engineering
- but it's only £25.50 delivered, which is a whole lot less than a Proxxon
or Wolfcraft.

Might perhaps be a starting point for those into improving tools - it looks
like it needs a lot of improvement!

There seems to be several available. Usual disclaimer, but I'm not even a
customer.

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zedbert@gmail.com - 30 May 2006 10:20 GMT

I've got a larger and older one of those things. It is the very thing
for lining up to drill holes, or even a series of holes. When it comes
to milling it just doesn't seem to cut the mustard. I have tried a
couple of times, into aluminium, it just seems extremely wobbly, and my
drill press (a fairly large one, although of the cheep modern varietey)
is really not happy.

I understand from reading about these things, milling in a drill-press
is not a grate plan anyway, knackers the bearings, upsets the balance
of the world, causes global warming etc.

As the 'mercans say, YMMV.

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bugbear - 30 May 2006 11:22 GMT

> There was a thread about XY tables recently - just saw this on eBay:
>
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> There seems to be several available. Usual disclaimer, but I'm not even a
> customer.

APTC do these:

http://www.axminster.co.uk/name/cross/sfile/1/jump/0/product-Axminster-SCV3-Cros
s-Vice-206617.htm
http://www.axminster.co.uk/name/cross/sfile/1/jump/0/product-Axminster-SCV4-Cros
s-Vice-206618.htm
http://www.axminster.co.uk/name/cross/sfile/1/jump/0/product-Axminster-SCV5-Cros
s-Vice-21304.htm

I know no more.

BugBear

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Tony Jeffree - 30 May 2006 11:42 GMT

>APTC do these:
>
>http://www.axminster.co.uk/name/cross/sfile/1/jump/0/product-Axminster-SCV3-Cros
s-Vice-206617.htm
>http://www.axminster.co.uk/name/cross/sfile/1/jump/0/product-Axminster-SCV4-Cros
s-Vice-206618.htm
>http://www.axminster.co.uk/name/cross/sfile/1/jump/0/product-Axminster-SCV5-Cros
s-Vice-21304.htm

Interesting...these vices seem to change size at will (same pic used
in all 3 pages ;-))

My experience with these vices is that if you treated them as a set of
castings for making a cross vice you might end up with something half
decent, but in "out of the box" condition they are fairly crap.

Regards,
Tony

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Tony Jeffree - 30 May 2006 11:45 GMT

>My experience with these vices

Should point out that the ones I have used/seen aren't the Axminster
ones though...

Regards,
Tony

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Tim Auton - 30 May 2006 16:50 GMT

>> There was a thread about XY tables recently - just saw this on eBay:
>>
>> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7623960192&ssPageN
>> ame=STRK:MEWA:IT
>>
>> which is an XY vice. They call it a two-way machine vice.

[snip]

They look a lot like the ones Machine Mart sell:

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/product.asp?p=040310170
http://www.machinemart.co.uk/product.asp?p=040310180
http://www.machinemart.co.uk/product.asp?p=040310190

I've got a 5" one. As expected, it's pretty rough out of the box. Not
even proper bushings on the ends of the leadscrews on mine - they just
rattle around in the casting. The ways on mine are free of any
noticeable slop though, so it is useable.

Tim

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