Taking on Paying Work & Making it Easier + Vice Update 

My first ever production run of commercial parts and how I survived it, plus an update on the long awaited vice project.
Small production runs can be a challenge for home shops, I find when I start planning or designing a project, I have my tools & limitations in mind and tend to design around those. With paying work though, each part that comes through the door has been designed outside of some of those constraints, or produced by someone else with a different set of tooling to you.
The challenge therefore comes in either finding ways to produce the desired result, or in my case, redesigning the part to work better, be simpler where possible and hopefully cheaper to make.
The other fun challenge comes in making tools and jigs and finding processes that you'll use beyond just that production run and so provide a better return on the time & material invested to make them.
Link to Caliper Mount STL & Step File:
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