Aligning A Vise on a Mill

[BuffaloJohn]

Hi Rick

Hope you don't mind me sharing my post on clocking up a vice on your post?

But being a lazy engineer ( or just always trying to find the quickest way to get the job done ) Clocking up a vise can be achieved in seconds using two tee nuts/bolts thick washers, mallet, parallel and a clock and base.

This is the method I use to clock up most jigs,fixtures,rotary tables, work pieces and vices. Works every time with next to no setup needed to achieve a perfect alignment to the desired axis.

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/quickest-way-i-know-how-clock-up-machine-vice-65939

Hope this will be of interest and my videos are no way as good as yours but hopefully it will got across the idea

The Home Engineer

Uncomplicated! I stumbled onto something similar but a little more complicated when I aligned my vise for the first time, but it was by accident as I was just lazy (no power feed, so I was cranking and cranking and got tired of cranking about halfway). With your video, now I understand and can do the alignment even quicker. A good short video that gets the point across is quickly is great!