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Default Kurt vise swivel attachment question

The answer to your question: I do keep the swivel under the vise.

The only downside for me is that I loose the height of the swivel
between the quill and the table. It has gotten in the way a couple of
times. Then I take the whole thing off and install the old bridgeport
vise.

Pete Stanaitis
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Tom Gardner wrote:
I have a brand-spankin'-new Kurt D675 vise (no oopses yet) and I needed a way to
do angled slots. I found this swivel base on eBay
http://cgi.ebay.com/KURT-SWIVEL-BASE...QQcmdZViewItem
BUT...my little brain doesn't see how this fits, it seems like I need some other
part. I confess, I didn't take the vise off of the mill because it's within
half a thou of perfect and somebody's got a job in process. I picked-up a
cheapie 4" swivel vise at the local store for the immediate job and actually,
it's pretty nice! But, I wonder if the attachment for the Kurt would be a good
investment and if I would just leave it on all the time or is there a downside
to that.

Why is it that the better and better your tooling gets, the more complex,
intricate and difficult your designs get...it seems were always on the edge of
the capabilities of out stuff. I'm afraid I'll loose my simplistic thinking.