My vise is 5.5" from the floor to the top of the vise. We did the drill and tap
thing too to reverse the screw. I'll try to post a picture on ABPW. Cheers, JG

Alan Bierbaum wrote:

I had to drill and tap ( 1/4-20) two holes to reverse the screw used for
in-out movement in my Grizzly vise. Simple to do with a drill press (cast
iron drills and taps easily). My vise is 3 7/8" from the mounting surface
to the "floor" of the vise jaws (where the wood rest when clamped in the
vise). You can see a small picture at:

http://home.comcast.net/~cabierbaum/wc_csv.jpg

I just removed the supplied base and fence, rotated the head on the base 180
degrees, and built up the mortiser by 1 1/4" for my Jet mortiser.
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Alan Bierbaum

Web Page: www.calanb.com

"John Moorhead" wrote in message
...
Folks -

Okay, any of you that were going to post a response regarding your guts
rather than a General In'tl mortiser.....fuggetit!

Now - I am going to build a table to include my mortiser (and several
other machines) and I would like to know more about that modification
some of you have done - installing a cross vise (grizzly??) in the base
and using a riser on the mortise head to regain the depth capacity. I'd
like to do this, but need to know how tall the vise is so I can use a
common table and fence for several machines along one wall.

I seem to recall something about having to reverse one of the axis screws
as well... Does any of this ring a bell?

John Moorhead