MAKE A FLOAT LOCK Drill Press Vise TIPS 585 pt 6 tubalcain Crank Handle 

I hope that you realize that you are a Treasure Mr Pete... You are still teaching and we are still learning.. Love your approach..

Pretty slick Mr. Pete! Many great tips and procedures in this episode. I'm really enjoying this series. Thank you

I really enjoy the way that younshow all the steps and explain the considerations as the project progresses from stock to usable item. It occurs to me, that you exemplify something that is missing from our current education system; many teachers lean in on telling students what to think, instead of guiding them to learn how to think. Thanks

Vise looks great, definitely want to see the complete work. Rounding off the crank assembly is the right way , the effort to make the forming tool shows in the final product.

Really interesting setups on the mill, and like your use of shim stock to establish clearance. Great tips, Mr. Pete!

I do enjoy this series. It inspired me to heat up my studio G and clean up the surface rust from this same project that I made in school 1969 /70. I do use it to this day.

Awesome project! Thanks for sharing all the details of the measurements and construction.

Wonderful Project Mr. Pete !!!! Aint Nothing Wrong With Rube Goldberg !! 26 Thumbs Up

great work Mr P!

Enjoying the toolmaking videos.

Have been enjoying this series. Thank you for sharing. “May the chips be with you”... love it!!!

Great work Mr. Pete. I despise my drill press vise so definitely adding this to my project list.

Great project and video series. Looking forward to the final episodes. Thank you.

I’m definitely going to build one of these. They look like just what I need for my Drill Press, and other uses. Great Videos Mr Pete. I really appreciate every one of your Videos.

This was the best episode so far! So good I'll have to watch it again!!! I'll also be trying to discover how to use a piece of paper for edge finding!

This series is TREMENDOUSLY ENJOYABLE! Thanks Mr. Pete!

Super series. Loving it. Thank you sir!

Great idea on using the stiff rule to line up the slotted portion of the handle. I was wondering just before you showed it how to do that. That handle turned out great.

Nice craftsmanship!

I am finally building the courage to tackle this build... material ordered!!!

enjoyed making of the vise

Excellent procedures on this project Mr. Pete, coming along bigly! ;)

Beautiful little piece!

Great project series I've looked forward to watching all of these episodes as I do with all of your series. Thanks for taking the time to do this.

You are a true inspiration Mr. Pete. Mine is coming along very nicely, I made the forming tool from an offcut of HSS 6mm x 25mmx 150mm long, it only took 15 minutes to grind to the radius. I followed your thoughts of forming both pieces, and before milling, looking very nice! I used stainless steel for my 1/2" rod and threaded rod, just to be a little different.

Mr. Pete, I finally finished this project. I used 1/2-10 Acme rod. The angle cut on the jaws was done on an Evolution dry-cut saw with some fixturing. I had to buy a lathe to do the handle (any excuse, right?) and I seriously contemplated buying a mill, too. In the end, I finished the handle joint with a hack saw and files---it took longer than the rest of the build! The table clamp is cast iron that I TIG brazed to some 1/4" hot-rolled steel. I couldn't mill a V-groove into the jaws so I clamped a piece of sacrificial bar and drilled a hole 1/2 in the jaw. I rounded the corner of the table clamp so you can flip the jaws up on end. The handle was difficult but it's really nice how it doesn't catch on the edge of the table, regardless of where it stops. I made the other handle by drilling and threading a 6-32 hole in each end and in 2 pieces with a slightly larger diameter. Then I screwed a 6-32 screw in and jammed the larger pieces on. Then I cut off the protruding end of the screw. Here's a link to the final product: drive.google.com/file/d/1s8RNpYqjSK3MHoaU_YRa63Npfx1m1fDF/view?usp=sharing

Yes, sir. It is looking really good. Well done! I still have some O1 from a form tool you showed years ago. I can hardly wait for the refresher lecture and lab.

Really enjoying watching you. You're an inspiration. Brings back old memories. Thank you Sir. Keep doing what you obviously have a love for.

Really enjoying this project.

Great job TEACH , Yupp our shop youtube teacher. Thanks mr pete

I like the video, great job! I can hardly wait to get out in the shop to see what material I can scrounge up. Thanks to the gentleman for the project prints!

Great project enjoying it very much

One of you best videos series... IMHO... THANKS!

Very enjoyable project Mr. Pete. LOVE watching you build tools and learn while you perform machine work, some of the best quality Zen moments on You Tube - ! lol

G’day Lyle excellent series. Cheers Peter

Nice project sir, we could run a poll here, if that is ok? If anyone could add their name below stating that they are building this as I am, it would give Mr Pete an idea how many people are actually making this.

I sure enjoyed the video. Looking forward to the next one. Thanks Lyle.

Great project, and video series! The little things you do, give you projects a finished look. I loved the Rube Goldberg reference!!

That’s looking awesome!

I really enjoyed this build series. I'm doing some mods to my lathe, but as soon finished I'm onto this build. Take care.

8:06. Allusion to "The Naked City". You've done a marvelous job on these small pieces. Many thanks

Lyle, this was a very interesting video. I like seeing different ways to perform the same operations because I often don't have the same machinery as used in the videos I watch. Thanks for making this series!

You had me laughing again. I always try to figure out ahead of time just how you might do something with all your machines. Well you got me again. I was sitting in front of my monitor trying to figure out just which machine you were going to use to make the end radius on the crank handle. I of course was also trying to imagine just how you might secure the crank also. I was all set to see just how close you came to my "Rube Goldberg" machinations when you simply walk over to the belt sander and sand the radius in! Shot down again. KISS is alive and well in your shop!

Excellent work thanks!

For simplicity sake I just pinned a lug nut on mine as a means to tighten and loosen it with a ratchet wrench, but none the less, the lasting beauty of your efforts is that this installment will undoubtedly be revisited over and over as a text book go-to on making that type of crank mechanism.

A great series. Even if I am not making a project that you are I still watch because the techniques apply to many things. I just have a little chinesium mill and lathe so I can't match your speeds and feeds, but the methods still apply. I just have to scale things back to match the equipment I have.

Works and looks great. I need to make mine soon.

Once again a really wonderful video/ project. Thanks. Im down with the flue right now but it sure helps to watch your videos. Your voice is healing. :-).

I always like your videos. Very nice project.

Nope not rediculous CRAFTSMANSHIP!! Thank you of the series!

Love your work Mr. Pete. I will make one of these vises soon. Looking forward to the Form Tool video. Have a great day.

Elegant!

As always a great video Lyle. Some useful tips. Like the shim stock spacing. Cheers

Pretty Rowdy crew you were with there at the end!

I know I am not supposed to be jealous of what other people have. However, I would love to own an upright milling machine. Using my 1949 Craftsman Lathe is SO time consuming - - but it works.

However we get there, we still get there! Great series. Thanks, Mr. Pete! :-)

Nice work thank you.

Love the series Lyle Thank you

As always great video! On a side note I stumbled onto a trick that seams to help a ton with chattering. I was turning a 7.5" pully out of steel and just happened to notice by chance that my chatter was very minimal by turning up and down my speed every 30 seconds or so (cant recall the exact time) it was a pain but it was very effective. Iam sure people much smarter then me already know about it though. Lol

Interesting processes

Awesome build I remember I loved the one we had at work... maybe making me one soon as it cools off here. Watching in Alabama

I’d be tempted to put a little ball detente on that handle.

Enjoyed...good lessons

Well done

Thanks for sharing sir..

I liked the paper edge finder

always pickup some great things, thanks

I think About used a router cutter for making a radius on stock.

Thanks for another great video

I think if you put the radiused piece in a collet block before milling, you could then turn it on it's side and rotate it 90 degrees to drill an accurate straight pin hole.

Great tip on the shim stock. I suppose paper or tinfoil could be used for those of us that don't have shim stock. Nice rube goldberg too.

Grate video. Thanks for sharing.

at 7:02 sound looks like in school break )))

thanx for sharing, i think i might make one of those, out of wood of coarse.......

Looking foreword to how you made your form tool. I have many in my tool box I have made over the years, hand ground. It's surprising how often I pull one out for a special project.

I'm still learning Mr Pete, would there be any advantages to drilling the holes prior to shaping the piece? Great tutorial as always! Thanks!

Those extra touches are worth it if you want to have pride in your work. Looks count, I've seen machining jobs done to the bare minimum for usability. They look very unprofessional. We should not be dissuaded from designing in attractive features that may not be absolutely necessary. (P.S. you could have used a ball turning tool for that radius. Most home shop folk have already made one.)

THANK YOU...for sharing. Very much enjoyed. Who is Goldberg?

How is it you don't have an oxy-acetylene torch? You have every other tool known to man...32 copies of each one...

Mr Pete. Would you mind if I did a video on my channel on the Float Lock Vice I'm making? I have no intention of repeating anything you have done but I thought some people might be interested in how I did the machining on my lathe, not having a milling machine. Cheers, Alan.

Thanks

20 year old acetylene! I’m really surprised it hadn’t gone stale....😜

Love to see you make chips. Why did you not drill the 1/8'' holes before you cut it off the long bar?

What the hey's a goin' on here? I was 112 to hit the thumbs up and there are zero thumbs down! Are the trolls out on sympathy strike with the UAW?

I get a laugh with trolls! This troll still drilling holes with a punch and sledge hammer LOL we here don't call e'm bubba's but JYD's the junk yard dog.

Could I use a 1/2 - 20 thread rod instead of a 1/2 -13?

Who would have EVER thought of using two Drill Bits to "square" a "round" rod in a Mil? Well by golly I'll tell you "who" did it; because he did not know it could NOT be done. So he dun and went and did it. And "whom" might dat be? Huh? I'll tell you "who" or is that "whom". Oh well. Our "Mr Pete"! Dat be dah won dat dun and done it. And if yuz don lack it, well yer mama wears "Army Boots". So there! Putt dat in your smipe and poke it! K? OK! "So let it be written. So let it be done!"

Mr PeteIn stead of making a form tool why didn't you just use one cutting flute of a corner rounding end mill?Lou

Ok there's 500 ways, you only showed one, I'm waiting for the others 499.

Lyle, PLEASE STOP using your vernier calipers as a marking tool. You will wear the tips. If you really must do it that way, then buy a cheap $ 10 vernier, NOT your good quality one. Also use some heat insulation on your VICE jaws, you were losing a lot of heat by clamping it directly to the part.

I would like to coin a new phrase "Tubalcainery" to be used instead of Rube Goldberg ; ). After all there is nothing "Rube" about your techniques!