Fractal vise - GIF, video, and patent

[Jon]

1913 fractal vise restoration.




36:19 source video:

1913 U.S. patent 1,059,545 for "Device for Obtaining Intimate Contact With, Engaging, or Clamping Bodies of any Shape"



Previously:

30 plans for homemade machine vises
Miniature machine vise - video
Antique pattern maker's vise - GIF
41 interesting vise patents - drawings
The PositionALL - kind of a universal rotator for a vise or any work.
Giant vise - video

[mklotz]

I hope Mandelbrot was aware of this device; he would have been delighted.

[bruce.desertrat]

I cannot even start to consider how crazy handwork-intensive that was to manufacture in 1913.

[mklotz]

Apparently one can still buy a version. This...

https://fractalvise.com/?fbclid=IwAR...2ZKM-FpIPX341E

from a thread over on HSM.

[Toolmaker51]

Articulating jaws were prevalent in production lines, especially castings and shorter run forgings until CNC and CAD, which facilitated the milling/ boring conforming jaws. That also reduced fixturing of individual parts, into parts ganged up in vise jaws.

[Moldyjim]

Steve Lindsay Engraving just started offering their version for holding parts in an engraving vise.
No price set yet, probably more than I could afford without selling both kidneys.

[Toolmaker51]

What do we do in the face of high pricing.......?
Start with various solutions here in hallways of HMT.net

[WmRMeyers]

What do we do in the face of high pricing.......?
Start with various solutions here in hallways of HMT.net

This is where someone starts chanting "DIY, DIY, hey, hey! DIY, DIY!!" Sound about right?

Bill

[Toolmaker51]

This is where someone starts chanting "DIY, DIY, hey, hey! DIY, DIY!!" Sound about right?

Bill

Eloquently put!
I'm itching to get back into working on instead of gathering materials. Started about 2-1/2 years ago, then on hold a year.....attacking a different way now.

[Jon]

1:34 video of Steve Lindsay's fractal vise jaws that mklotz linked: