Guys, to increase the jaw capacity of my vise I reduced the thickness of the chop to just over inch thick 1 1/8. I would like to add dogs on the outside face of the chop as drilling out 3/4 would weaken it too much. Anyone have any pics or video links on a good choice for this?

Edited February 24, 20197 yr by Pat Meeuwissen

Not sure what you mean.  You talking leg vise?  Picture maybe?

 

My guess:  Put the dogs holes to the outside edge and reinforce with a steel plate screwed to the outside.

You could possibly mount some 2x hardwood to the outside and drill it. However that would depend on the clearance for the handle which I doubt will be enough.

Second option is to mount metal wire holding loops for on the outside face and again the clearance is the problem.

Third option is mount th 2x stock on the ends of the 1x and drill them.

Hope that was clear would do a picture but do not have one showing 1x on vise.

do you have enough space to add a device similar to a planing stop?

 

Edited February 25, 20197 yr by John Hechel
spell correction

My vise has a dog in the chop*.  If you use metal dogs on the vise, they could be as small as 1/4" pegs:  drill (2) at each end of the chop, and then make a wooden cleat with matching 1/4" holes?  Many variants come to mind.

 

*yeah, I had to google "chop"

1 hour ago, PeteM said:

My vise has a dog in the chop*.  If you use metal dogs on the vise, they could be as small as 1/4" pegs:  drill (2) at each end of the chop, and then make a wooden cleat with matching 1/4" holes?  Many variants come to mind.

 

*yeah, I had to google "chop"

Like this?

Herb

 

Here are a couple more ideas.

Herb

 

2 hours ago, Dadio said:

Like this?

Herb

 

Good alt.  I was thinking drilling the chop itself, small holes, brass dowels.  This would lessen the tendency of the wooden jaw face to tilt under pressure (and--heh--because I just used dbl sided tape to fix my wooden faces to the metal.  Never discount laziness!).

24 minutes ago, PeteM said:

Good alt.  I was thinking drilling the chop itself, small holes, brass dowels.  This would lessen the tendency of the wooden jaw face to tilt under pressure (and--heh--because I just used dbl sided tape to fix my wooden faces to the metal.  Never discount laziness!).

If the vice jaws are wood, recess (epoxy) some rare earth magnets in both the wood faces large ones will really hold good.

Herb

Edited February 25, 20197 yr by Dadio

Guys, some really great options. I think this might be the front runner, but intrigued by the option to use some 3/8 brass rod and drill them into the chop as is. I saw a video on YouTube where they installed them with spring mechanism to pop them up when needed but store flush when not in use.

 

4 hours ago, PeteM said:

Never discount laziness!).

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