08-09-2015, 09:10 AM
I dont see why bronze would not be hard enough by virtue of the fact your just holding the jaw plate on.
how i would repair this would be strip off the jaw plate, build a dam around that corner and fill in with braze or... build up the Nickel stick or Tig weld to fill the crater, fill in the original bolt threads with weld, machine the surfaces down square and true, re-drill new holes in new locations and tap or ream out new holes to accept threaded end dowels.
Make new jaw plate, drill holes for what ever your affixing arrangement is , machine or grind... if you go this far make an extra jaw plate with a copper or aluminium strip machined in for soft jaw work, if you do that make the jaw removal easy for quick and ease of use.
remember if you want to go even further you could assemble the vice with newly made jaw plates on the mill in one sitting if you open the gape on the vise and jam it in the closed position mimicking it being closed, then end mill both jaws vertically at once. This effort is well worth it for a good shop vise.
Hope this helps
Anthony.
how i would repair this would be strip off the jaw plate, build a dam around that corner and fill in with braze or... build up the Nickel stick or Tig weld to fill the crater, fill in the original bolt threads with weld, machine the surfaces down square and true, re-drill new holes in new locations and tap or ream out new holes to accept threaded end dowels.
Make new jaw plate, drill holes for what ever your affixing arrangement is , machine or grind... if you go this far make an extra jaw plate with a copper or aluminium strip machined in for soft jaw work, if you do that make the jaw removal easy for quick and ease of use.
remember if you want to go even further you could assemble the vice with newly made jaw plates on the mill in one sitting if you open the gape on the vise and jam it in the closed position mimicking it being closed, then end mill both jaws vertically at once. This effort is well worth it for a good shop vise.
Hope this helps
Anthony.
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