On 28 Nov 2017 03:06:07 -0400, Mike Spencer
wrote:


Bob La Londe writes:

Do any of you guys use a vise on a pedestal?=20
[snip]
Waaaadaaaayaaathink?

I have five vices -- bench, 2 leg, pattern maker's, cabinet maker's --
permanently mounted on benches.

Ooh, got an EMMERT turtleback type 4 patternmakers vise? (gains
reverent look) http://www.mprime.com/Emmert/index.htm
cue cathedral pipe organ https://is.gd/pOIJ7p


The 8" leg vice is firmly bolted, via the usual band & wedge device,
to a piece of heavy-wall 4x4 HSS. The HSS post and the foot of the
vice stand in sockets welded to the center of a 4'x4' piece of 1/4"
plate.

8" leg? That's a huge vise.


The vice, even without the attached post, is too heavy for me to lift,
as is the plate. But it's easy to pick up first the vice and then the
plate with a garden variety rolling engine hoist and prop them in a
corner when the space but not the vice is needed.

Do you roll the cherry picker over the plate, then lift 2" off the
ground under the legs, to move it? That's a heavy chunk of iron!


The plate and socket are heavy/sturdy enough that hammering, twisting
and wrenching don't move the vice.

I'll bet. Pretty cool. In a hurricane, it'd surely hold the house
down, keeping it from blowing away.

--
Silence is more musical than any song.
-- Christina Rossetti