02-05-2024, 02:09 PM
When clamping a 6" x 6" x 1/4" steel plate in the band saw I noticed that the top of the movable jaw was tilting back at the top thus not clamping to the plate. This cause a lot of vibration so I had to abort the cut and see if I could fix the issue. Since the face that sits on the band saw base was fairly flat I used that as the reference face to put towards the fixed jaw on the mill. I had to take .030" off to get it flat. Then I measured the squareness and the reference surface was off just a bit so as long as I had the mill set up I decided to skim that face. Only needed to take off 5 thou.
I put the saw vise back together but the tilting was still there. I think the leadscrew nut on the band saw is moving when clamping the work piece in the vise.
I'll need to look at that next. I took a break from working on that to clean up the cast iron swarf from the mill and vise.
Ed
I put the saw vise back together but the tilting was still there. I think the leadscrew nut on the band saw is moving when clamping the work piece in the vise.
I'll need to look at that next. I took a break from working on that to clean up the cast iron swarf from the mill and vise.
Ed