Pat Meeuwissen Posted February 24, 2019 Report Share Posted February 24, 2019 (edited) 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, 2019 by Pat Meeuwissen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HandyDan Posted February 24, 2019 Report Share Posted February 24, 2019 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. FlGatorwood and Cal 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 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. Cal and FlGatorwood 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Hechel Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 (edited) do you have enough space to add a device similar to a planing stop? Edited February 25, 2019 by John Hechel spell correction Dadio, Grandpadave52, Cal and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteM Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 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" Grandpadave52, FlGatorwood and HARO50 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadio Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 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 Grandpadave52, FlGatorwood and HARO50 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dadio Posted February 25, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 Here are a couple more ideas. Herb Pat Meeuwissen, HARO50, Gunny and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PeteM Posted February 25, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 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!). FlGatorwood, Dadio, Gunny and 3 others 2 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dadio Posted February 25, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 (edited) 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, 2019 by Dadio Grandpadave52, PeteM, FlGatorwood and 2 others 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Pat Meeuwissen Posted February 25, 2019 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 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. Grandpadave52, Gunny, HARO50 and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpadave52 Posted February 26, 2019 Report Share Posted February 26, 2019 4 hours ago, PeteM said: Never discount laziness!). 5 Star Energy Compliant. HARO50, Gunny and FlGatorwood 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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