Story of the little discarded beat up Vee block

**thehomeengineer** · Mar 1, 2018, 03:21 PM

Hi All
This is a tale of a little discarded beat up Vee block.

Yet another skip-dive find.

A single vee block with no horse shoe clamp and a drilled hole in the block where someone had been very careless. I thought this is to good to leave in the skip so hooked it out knowing I could make good use of this little Vee block.

I decided to cut the Vee block up and make it in to different sized thin section blocks. 1/8", 1/4", 3/8" & 1/2"

The thinnest one was cut first and then the larger remaining piece placed in the mill and the cut face machined flat. This enabled me to ensure I had one face true to the Vee before cutting the next slice. The next block was cut and so on making sure I missed the part of the Vee with the horrible hole in it. Once all were cut I then machined the opposite cut face to size. Each block is 0.005” smaller than material stock size so when clamping in the vice the work piece is being held and not the Vee block.

These have been so useful in holding small components in the mill and used on the surface table for marking out.

So, the little discarded beat up Vee block has been given a new lease of life.

Cut down Vee blocks