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Vise for pipe threading
I had a chance to thread some 1/2 NPT pipes. The threader worked,
however, the vise (Harbor Freight 4" vise) could not hold the pipe well, so the pipe would slip. I tightened the vise rather well. This is a vise with no special pipe holding provisions. My question is, is the vise somenow not as good as it should be, or was it simply a wrong tool for the job? Do vises with pipe "slots" hold round objects better? i |
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Vise for pipe threading
My experience is yes, the pipe jaws do hold pipe better, after all, that's
why they are there. Threading 1/2" pipe being held by the flat jaws of a 4" HF vise is asking a lot. My $0.02 42 "Ignoramus11107" wrote in message ... I had a chance to thread some 1/2 NPT pipes. The threader worked, however, the vise (Harbor Freight 4" vise) could not hold the pipe well, so the pipe would slip. I tightened the vise rather well. This is a vise with no special pipe holding provisions. My question is, is the vise somenow not as good as it should be, or was it simply a wrong tool for the job? Do vises with pipe "slots" hold round objects better? i -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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Vise for pipe threading
Ig,
pipe threading requires an enormous amount of torque. Flat vice jaws haves too little surface contact. Try making this tool I have several sizes of. For 1/2" pipe (.840" OD) clamp two 3" pieces of 1" aluminum bar together with .015" shims between them. Drill thru the joint 27/32" long ways. With any luck this with make a saddle clamp with allmost 100% contact. Now put your pipe in this tool and into the 4" vise and try the threading die. This tool is also great for screwing/unscrewing nipples without damage. RichD, Atlanta |
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Vise for pipe threading
I've threaded pipe hundreds of times.
Go to an auction of a closing electrical/plumbing contractor and get yourself an American-made trivise made for the deed. Don't worry how crappy and old it looks. The seat for the pipe has got to have teeth on it and then chain that you can then really crank tight. Your vise can't hold 1/2"....hahahaha ! (not laughing at you) I've threaded 2" ridgid conduit many times with these trivises. One usually needs to use a cheater bar out the end of the hand threader...and it helps to simply lay the weight of one's whole body across the bar to offset the torque. You have to tighten the vise as hard as you can but it, amazingly, will hold even against those kinds of torques. |
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Vise for pipe threading
Ignoramus11107 wrote in
: I had a chance to thread some 1/2 NPT pipes. The threader worked, however, the vise (Harbor Freight 4" vise) could not hold the pipe well, so the pipe would slip. I tightened the vise rather well. This is a vise with no special pipe holding provisions. My question is, is the vise somenow not as good as it should be, or was it simply a wrong tool for the job? Do vises with pipe "slots" hold round objects better? i Flat jaws are not for pipe. You would have had much better luck if you had clamped a set of v-blocks in the vice to hold the pipe. Real pipe vices use a chain and serrated V's. (Rigid Industrial). -- Anthony You can't 'idiot proof' anything....every time you try, they just make better idiots. Remove sp to reply via email |
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Vise for pipe threading
You need the rotating type bench vise with the pipe jaws on the bottom,
and regular vise jaws on the top. Like this: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...temnumber=5655 JR Dweller in the cellar Ignoramus11107 wrote: I had a chance to thread some 1/2 NPT pipes. The threader worked, however, the vise (Harbor Freight 4" vise) could not hold the pipe well, so the pipe would slip. I tightened the vise rather well. This is a vise with no special pipe holding provisions. My question is, is the vise somenow not as good as it should be, or was it simply a wrong tool for the job? Do vises with pipe "slots" hold round objects better? i -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Home Page: http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes Doubt yourself, and the real world will eat you alive The world doesn't revolve around you, it revolves around me No skeletons in the closet; just decomposing corpses -------------------------------------------------------------- Dependence is Vulnerability: -------------------------------------------------------------- "Open the Pod Bay Doors please, Hal" "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.." |
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Vise for pipe threading
On Sep 23, 6:40 am, RichD wrote:
Ig, pipe threading requires an enormous amount of torque. Flat vice jaws haves too little surface contact. Try making this tool I have several sizes of. For 1/2" pipe (.840" OD) clamp two 3" pieces of 1" aluminum bar together with .015" shims between them. Drill thru the joint 27/32" long ways. With any luck this with make a saddle clamp with allmost 100% contact. Now put your pipe in this tool and into the 4" vise and try the threading die. This tool is also great for screwing/unscrewing nipples without damage. RichD, Atlanta That will hold the pipe without marring it, but the surface area has little to do with the friction. The friction equals the psi * area * the coeficent of friction. If you double the area you halve the psi. Dan |
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Vise for pipe threading
Ignoramus11107 wrote: I had a chance to thread some 1/2 NPT pipes. The threader worked, however, the vise (Harbor Freight 4" vise) could not hold the pipe well, so the pipe would slip. I tightened the vise rather well. This is a vise with no special pipe holding provisions. My question is, is the vise somenow not as good as it should be, or was it simply a wrong tool for the job? Do vises with pipe "slots" hold round objects better? i A pipe vice is what you need. What you can do is to secure the pipe in the vice you have and put a pipe wrench on it while you thread the other end. An old three jaw chuck would hold the pipe too. John |
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Vise for pipe threading
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:27:44 -0500, Ignoramus11107
wrote: I had a chance to thread some 1/2 NPT pipes. The threader worked, however, the vise (Harbor Freight 4" vise) could not hold the pipe well, so the pipe would slip. I tightened the vise rather well. This is a vise with no special pipe holding provisions. My question is, is the vise somenow not as good as it should be, or was it simply a wrong tool for the job? Do vises with pipe "slots" hold round objects better? i The jaws are supposed to dig into the pipe. If they are not sharp, or heat treated well enough, they will slip. I just got done hanging 1100' of black pipe air lines. I have both an Oster pipe threader and the Rigid tripod vise for fitting work and so forth, and had to regrind the jaws twice to keep them from slipping There are two main types of pipe vise. The chain vise, and the clamp vise. I actually prefer the clamp vise, given dull jaws in both. I will be rigging up the KO Lee tool cutter grinder to recut all the jaws now that the Project is winding down, in preperation for the next project. Ive also learned to not skimp on pipe wrenches. While the $5 Harbor Freight wrenches are inexpensive, they tend to have soft jaws and after some use in a commercial application..dull quickly and stop holding. For home use, they are fine. So I scrounged up some beat up old Rigid pipe wrenches, and they, even beat up, held better than some new HF wrenchs Gunner |
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Vise for pipe threading
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:41:37 -0700, GatherNoMoss
wrote: I've threaded pipe hundreds of times. Go to an auction of a closing electrical/plumbing contractor and get yourself an American-made trivise made for the deed. Don't worry how crappy and old it looks. http://cgi.ebay.com/NICE-RIDGID-460-... cmdZViewItem One I have. Good **** Maynard Gunner |
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Vise for pipe threading
On Sep 22, 10:27 pm, Ignoramus11107 ignoramus11...@NOSPAM.
11107.invalid wrote: I had a chance to thread some 1/2 NPT pipes. The threader worked, however, the vise (Harbor Freight 4" vise) could not hold the pipe well, so the pipe would slip. I tightened the vise rather well. This is a vise with no special pipe holding provisions. My question is, is the vise somenow not as good as it should be, or was it simply a wrong tool for the job? Do vises with pipe "slots" hold round objects better? i I'd never try to use a machinist's vise for holding pipe for threading. If you're doing a plumbing job, rent the right tool. I happened to inherit my granddad's pipe vise, this wraps around a post in the cellar and is tightened down with a wedge. The pipe holding part uses a chain to hold the pipe against a serrated V, the chain is tightened down with a jackscrew arrangement. There are free-standing vises using a tripod stand which are probably more useful than my vise, they can be used where there are no cellar posts. In either case, the pipe has to be rather firmly wedged into a number of serrations and they've got to bite into the surface or the torque of the die is going to spin the pipe, no matter how small. Use proper cutting oil and lots of it, too, the black stinky stuff, it reduces the torque needed considerably although it makes for a mess. Just lay a lot of newspapers down under the threading area. Stan |
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Vise for pipe threading
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:27:44 -0500, Ignoramus11107
wrote: I had a chance to thread some 1/2 NPT pipes. The threader worked, however, the vise (Harbor Freight 4" vise) could not hold the pipe well, so the pipe would slip. I tightened the vise rather well. This is a vise with no special pipe holding provisions. My question is, is the vise somenow not as good as it should be, or was it simply a wrong tool for the job? Do vises with pipe "slots" hold round objects better? i My favorite emergency pipe vise is three pipe wrenches applied from under the pipe - the outer two to oppose the threading torque and the middle one opposed to them. The wrenches form a tripod, holding the pipe above the work surface, then you sit a moderately heavy load (child, wife,sack of potatoes) on top to hold the wrench handles in contact with the work surface. Gerry :-)} London, Canada |
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Vise for pipe threading
You needed the V blocks mounted below the jaws. Or use some others.
Typically only a single V block is enough. Martin Martin H. Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net TSRA, Life; NRA LOH & Patron Member, Golden Eagle, Patriot's Medal. NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder IHMSA and NRA Metallic Silhouette maker & member. http://lufkinced.com/ Ignoramus11107 wrote: I had a chance to thread some 1/2 NPT pipes. The threader worked, however, the vise (Harbor Freight 4" vise) could not hold the pipe well, so the pipe would slip. I tightened the vise rather well. This is a vise with no special pipe holding provisions. My question is, is the vise somenow not as good as it should be, or was it simply a wrong tool for the job? Do vises with pipe "slots" hold round objects better? i ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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I ended up buying this antique or vintage vise
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=150161889874 I really like the way it looks, like it came from the railroad museum. i |
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"Ignoramus3778" wrote in message ... I ended up buying this antique or vintage vise http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=150161889874 I really like the way it looks, like it came from the railroad museum. i Standard pipe vice Iggy, how many do you want, though they are usually painted blue! http://www.tooled-up.com/Product.asp...Stand-And-Vice AWEM |
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Vise for pipe threading
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:43:08 -0500, Ignoramus3778
wrote: I ended up buying this antique or vintage vise http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=150161889874 I really like the way it looks, like it came from the railroad museum. i Hell....I would have sent you one just like that. Gunner |
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On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:43:08 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm,
Ignoramus3778 quickly quoth: I ended up buying this antique or vintage vise http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=150161889874 I really like the way it looks, like it came from the railroad museum. My last girlfriend gave me one very similar to that one, maybe a bit less beefy. -- EXPLETIVE: A balm, usually applied verbally in hindsight, which somehow eases those pains and indignities following our every deficiency in foresight. |
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Vise for pipe threading
"Larry Jaques" wrote in message ... On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:43:08 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, Ignoramus3778 quickly quoth: I ended up buying this antique or vintage vise http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=150161889874 I really like the way it looks, like it came from the railroad museum. My last girlfriend gave me one very similar to that one, maybe a bit less beefy. If my girlfriend gave me a pipe vise, she'd probably be my previous girlfriend, too. d8-) -- Ed Huntress |
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On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:41:33 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
wrote: "Larry Jaques" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:43:08 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, Ignoramus3778 quickly quoth: I ended up buying this antique or vintage vise http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=150161889874 I really like the way it looks, like it came from the railroad museum. My last girlfriend gave me one very similar to that one, maybe a bit less beefy. If my girlfriend gave me a pipe vise, she'd probably be my previous girlfriend, too. d8-) Is that in return for the vacuum cleaner? Gerry :-)} London, Canada |
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On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:41:33 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm, "Ed
Huntress" quickly quoth: "Larry Jaques" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:43:08 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, Ignoramus3778 quickly quoth: I ended up buying this antique or vintage vise http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=150161889874 I really like the way it looks, like it came from the railroad museum. My last girlfriend gave me one very similar to that one, maybe a bit less beefy. If my girlfriend gave me a pipe vise, she'd probably be my previous girlfriend, too. d8-) No, no, no, it wasn't a sex thing and we weren't into S&M. It was simply a nice gift to a tool collector. I tell ya, I'd much rather have done a simple plumbing job (ack the oxymoron) than laying a cobblestone path today. Oh, me achin' bod... -- Honor unto death, or at least unto discomfort. |
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"Gerald Miller" wrote in message ... On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:41:33 -0400, "Ed Huntress" wrote: "Larry Jaques" wrote in message . .. On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:43:08 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, Ignoramus3778 quickly quoth: I ended up buying this antique or vintage vise http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=150161889874 I really like the way it looks, like it came from the railroad museum. My last girlfriend gave me one very similar to that one, maybe a bit less beefy. If my girlfriend gave me a pipe vise, she'd probably be my previous girlfriend, too. d8-) Is that in return for the vacuum cleaner? Gerry :-)} London, Canada Hey, it was a really *nice* vacuum cleaner, with all the accessories. And the boning knife, and the sewing machine... -- Ed Huntress |
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