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A Couple of Nice Tools
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06-20-2012, 10:20 AM
Here are a couple of nice tools worth considering.
Speed Hammer Smart Stop http://www.piersonworkholding.com/ I especially like the Speed Hammer after viewing Tom's video on dialing in the vise jaws on a mill. Ed 
06-20-2012, 10:40 AM
I like the Smart Stop. It seems I'm always fiddling with the threaded stop I use now. It would be much easier to just loosen a couple of set screws to set the stop. It also looks like a great project idea.
Tom ![[Image: TomsTechLogo-Profile.png]](http://tomstechniques.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/TomsTechLogo-Profile.png) 
06-20-2012, 11:18 AM
I like the speed hammer idea - cool.
But that reminds me of a question I have been meaning to ask for some time now.... I have one of these double "quickie handle's" for my 6" vice and I love it. ![[Image: 5826.gif]](http://www.penntoolco.com/images/catalog/5826.gif) My problem has been finding somebody that makes one for a 4" vice. I would love to have one for my smaller vice (9/16" hex) as well, but I only ever see them in the larger 3/4" hex size.  I don't suppose anyone knows if such a thing exists? And no....... I can't afford to purchase a $$$ hex broach to make one. 
Willie
06-20-2012, 11:26 AM
I was thinking the Vacuum chuck looks an interesting project
 Rob
06-20-2012, 11:29 AM
(06-20-2012, 11:18 AM)Highpower Wrote: I like the speed hammer idea - cool. I made one long ago using two deep well 6 point sockets welded to a piece of flat bar at each end on opposite sides. It works but it ain't nothing fancy like those in the pictures! The un-used socket is the handle, but now that I see these fancy ones, I may need to hit a pawn shop and buy some more sockets to weld in the middle making it more "speed" wrench capable.
06-20-2012, 12:12 PM
(06-20-2012, 11:29 AM)November X-ray Wrote: I made one long ago using two deep well 6 point sockets welded to a piece of flat bar at each end on opposite sides. It works but it ain't nothing fancy like those in the pictures! The un-used socket is the handle, but now that I see these fancy ones, I may need to hit a pawn shop and buy some more sockets to weld in the middle making it more "speed" wrench capable. You sir, are my savior!  You just gave me an idea. I could just pick up another one of those handles ($20 at Enco), bore out the 3/4" hex's and slip in a couple of 9/16" sockets. Now why didn't I think of that???  THANKS! Willie
Willie
06-20-2012, 12:58 PM
The handles in the pictures are aluminum, not sure what the ones are made of from Enco, but how would you fasten them to transfer the torque,,,,roll pins perhaps?
 
06-20-2012, 01:12 PM
I justused an interference press fit.
No JB weld needed, with enough of a press even the aluminum will hold the socket tighter than one could apply enough torque to move it. (Unless one applied a cheater bar long enough, but then you'd be in danger of tipping over the mill  )Oh, btw, I did turn the OD of the socket to a non-tapered OD.
Busy Bee 12-36 lathe, Busy Bee Mill drill, Busy Bee 4x6 bandsaw, Homemade 9x17 bandsaw, Ad infinitum.
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