Light weight vises do not clamp small parts well. The movable jaw tilts which then does a poor job of holding the part. One solution is to add a jack screw to one end of the vise jaws.
If you are interested, please see
https://rick.sparber.org/SmallViseJack.pdf
Your comments are welcome. All of us are smarter than any one of us.
Thanks,
Rick
Rick
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