Bought a shaper! Need Vice Advice!

[JSGAuto]

Hi everyone,

A 7" atlas shaper just followed me home! Pics will follow soon.

I can't wait to try it out, but I need a vice for it first. I was looking through the Enco catalog and there is such a selection! What would be the best vice for this application? I also would try to keep the price reasionable.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jim

[Bguns]

http://www.harpritsan.com/Castings.html

[pgp001]

When you say you need "Advice", what you really need is a "ViceAd".

Someone on here might just have a spare, but I very much doubt it, they seem to be as rare as hens teeth, I was lucky mine came with its original vice.

Have you tried on the Yahoo site for Atlas.

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/grou...ineusersgroup/

Phil

[Al Messer]

In a pinch, you can "strap" workpieces to the table since the Atlas, unlike the South Bend, has "T" slots in the bed.

[LastOldDog]

In a pinch, you can "strap" workpieces to the table since the Atlas, unlike the South Bend, has "T" slots in the bed.

Equipped my SB with a large fixture plate to accommodate Te-Co hold downs, Mitee-Bite, other odd clamping challenges. It is extra length and width, can mount a spindex, rotab, or small dividing head, registers on the slots on the table for repeatability on recurring jobs. Also, my shaper came with one 'side wing' for a greater platform size. I made more from weldments, heavy angle, also from ENCO angle plates cut down to size, then ground square again. Many other components available from the Bridgeport and surface grinder too.

Clamping and fixturing is limited only by one's imagination

Lloyd

[IOWOLF]

Man, dog, you have made a career out of the hobby shapers adaptations.

[Your Old Dog]

LOD, sure like to see some pics of your setup. Those sound like great ideas.

[Tin Falcon]

If you have the time and bucks the casting kit is likely the way to go. Original shaper vises can and have gone on ebay for more than the cost of a shaper without a vise.
Mine came with a cheap $15 import drill press vise it workd but have to be carefull because the movable jaw likes to push up on the work piece throwing it out of sqare so I use a piece of hex stock in between.
Tin

[JSGAuto]

I was afrade of the real thing being expensive.

The casting part is nice, but being I don't have a mill, that would be challenging to get set up.

How about just a regular machinist's vice? Is there a half decent affordable one that would be reccomended for this?

Thanks
Jim

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