Maybe another vice project.

**Anorak Bob** · 3rd May 2012, 11:21 AM

When attending the Scraping Course, I photographed Phil's superb TOS Kurim mill. The vice mounted on the mill took my fancy. It was very similar to a couple of French SAGOP vices I had found on a Dutch site and was keen on but the seller wasn't real keen on overseas transactions. A machined vice like Phil's lends itself to being a shaper project. What I don't know about is the method used to the retain the "nut" in its various locations between the vice ways. And unlike me, I didn't take enough photos.

Any clues?

BT

The first photo shows my bench mate Bruce looking in equal awe at the mill.

**Machtool** · 3rd May 2012, 11:35 AM

Bob.

You can just make it out in this picture.

https://www.woodworkforums.com/attachments/f65/207121d1336004151-maybe-another-vice-project-dscn0127-large-.jpg

Right out near the end, you can see a drilled dimple in the centre of the vice. It has a row of them, down the guts.

The block that holds the screw, that has a ball imbedded in the bottom, and a cross pin forward of that. So when you do up the screw, the block rocks back on the pin and locks the ball into that detent dimple.
Give me a second, I’ll get my camera.

One of the boys here posted a very similar, if not the same as, just recently. I think it was one of the Adelaide guys.

Phil.

**Bryan** · 3rd May 2012, 11:39 AM

The bent shifter is a classy touch.

**Machtool** · 3rd May 2012, 11:43 AM

Here you go.

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Phil.

**Stustoys** · 3rd May 2012, 11:51 AM

Gee, lucky it was Phils week with the camera!

Stuart

**Anorak Bob** · 3rd May 2012, 11:53 AM

Thank you Phil,

All is revealed.

Bob.

**Anorak Bob** · 3rd May 2012, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by Stustoys

Gee, lucky it was Phils week with the camera!

Stuart

Well FM! That was opportune!

**tanii51** · 3rd May 2012, 08:10 PM

that looks very similar to one i just bought

**Anorak Bob** · 3rd May 2012, 09:40 PM

My memory is shot. We were only discussing that vice the other day.

**tanii51** · 4th May 2012, 01:41 PM

Not at all BOB ( i call it a brain fade) you solved part of my question of what brand it might be i think i got a bargain thanks

a hell of an over kill on my rf25 but hey its mine now

john

**4-6-4** · 4th May 2012, 06:44 PM

Greetings Chaps. I put thyis comment on another thread but the bottom vice with the 1/2 round holes was very similar to one I used at Nestles many years ago. I was very taken with it. It held the work piece extremely well and I would have taken it home but it was too heavy. Yours 4-6-4

**tanii51** · 4th May 2012, 09:31 PM

just weighed it the bathroom scales say 29kilos

**Michael G** · 4th May 2012, 09:51 PM

So it weighs around 20kg? (after all, every one knows that bathroom scales always read on the heavy side)

Michael

**tanii51** · 4th May 2012, 10:01 PM

so im not obese after all

**Gerbilsquasher** · 5th May 2012, 01:30 PM

I got one too!

I think this came off Ebay a few years back... it has suffered some butchery around the dimples and the swivel base is missing.

I wonder if the dimpled surface can be machined smooth and the dimples cleaned up with a ball nose end mill?

Edit: also the first time posting a photo here without using Photobucket... then again I'm not bad with computers. I still find them infuriating at times

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