Wabeco F1200

[Wongster]

Hello Mayhem, how do you know its a Vertex?



Got home at almost 10pm and did a quick clean up of the vise. I find using a used toothbrush with WD40 very effective in removing the dried grease.



The edges at the bottom are rather sharp. Didn't realize that till I get a light scratch on my brand new table... I file down all edges at the bottom to removed the sharp edges,



and have it mounted onto the table with the clamping kit.



The jaws opening up to max 60mm.



The Y axis handwheel interfering with the vise handle. Don't they make shorter ones for mill of this size?



The test report it came with:



Might as well take the photo of the test report that came with the mill.





Can't comment much on the Vertex vise at this stage. Also, first time using such vise. Been using the Toolmaker vise (or read it named as grinding vise) on my Sherline. I don't see any witness mark or pointer on the swivel base or the vise to read off the graduation from. Too late to do anything now. I may have some time on Wednesday night to play. Wife going for church meeting. Will try not to fix any night appointment to do further test cut. Problem is, I do not have a suitable collet to fix up my indicator to square up the vise. Will be ordering the ER16 collet chuck with MT2 shank after this post. The 2 shops I visited today only have straight shank ER collet chuck.

Will report back hopefully soon.

Regards,
Wong