Nice review John. Vevor must be listening to their customer feedback. If you go back and look at reviews of these vice's from a couple years ago there were a lot of issues with flatness and parallelism of the jaws. If your looking for a new vice and don't want to spend crazy money on a Kurt or Wilton this may be a good alternative.
I received mine yesterday prepared for some of the issues, especially sharp edges. None to be found. The edges were obviously and purposely chamfered and only a slight burr was found. No cosmoline or other thick protectant and it now has the ball oiler over the screw. I’m a new hobbyist from what I’ve watched and read I’m quite pleased and didn’t have to spend hundreds on a Kurt for a home shop.
John, I bought the 6" version of this vice without the swivel base direct from vevor for £80, had been thinking of buying one for a while, the base was out and needed scraping to get it flat, also the top rails, there was a .005" dip right next to the fixed jaw, just where you want to put a square to square stock up, wouldn't have minded had it been the back end, so scraped the top rails flat and parallel, fortunately the fixed jaw was true at 90 deg to the base, but I had to shim one side of the fixed one to get it parallel, the only thing I have against it is that the material is very soft, care needed if tapping down, worth the money if your prepared to spend a bit of time truing things up. The later Kurts have a mod you can do to the moving jaw, fitting two O rings to the bottom front to hold it up off the rails, I used a 12mm slot drill to bore the two shallow holes about .040" deep, fitted 2 12mm O rings, this leaves about .020" sticking out, reassemble the moving jaw, and with the small adjusting screw pull the jaw down till you can get a 3 to 4 thou feeler under the jaw, When you tighten a part into the vice this doesn't just stop the part lifting, it actualy pulls it down onto the parallells, a good mod, mine produced a square block no problem at first try.
The railed the clamping block slide along are important to test .They are the true reference surface in both forwards and backwards left to right .also how square they are to the fixed jaw
John You missed the detail on the moving jaw and leadscrew nut. They both have wedge shaped surfaces which pull the moving jaw down, onto the ways, when the vise is tightened so their is no possibility of the moving jaw lifting when tightened.
Really nice. I have brought a vevor vice myself. Don’t even have a milling machine yet, but was also quite impressed even though I couldn’t check it out yet.
Great review john looks like a great vise only one thing with your test? You never checked the most important place !! Is with the jaws opened up ,,,across the base so when you true one side and turn part over over and mill it will it be true? Not one end larger then the other
Nice vice John; I did note that as you ran the DTI along the fixed jaw I noted that the reading on the swivel base mark was not aligned on the 90* mark when your DTI indicated zero, it looked to be approx' a couple of degrees off. Maybe worth doing a recheck. I had a 4" swivel base vice from a well known supplier that when my DTI showed 0 - 0 over 4" run along the fixed jaw showed a discrepancy if 2* on the swivels base markings; disconcerting if your angle setting is a critical one. Otherwise a nice value for money vice.
Hi John I have the same Vevor vice, but the 3inch version. There is a bit of wiggle room on the jaw plates which may take up the error. Good review and an honest assessment. Cheers Nobby
Same here, and came to make same comment. Bought one last week. Made mistake of taking one off before I'd even used it. Now I can't get it back to where it was. Yet.
And also measure them at either end height wise and see if they are still twenty thou different. I can't believe that both jaws were ground with a twenty thou taper. I bet you are correct and there is crap under both jaws at one end. When doing a review like this it would really pay to strip and then clean everything before checking it. The machinists who do these vices obviously are doing good work, but as we all know the plebs who put these things together couldn't give a flying fuck about the product and just slap the well machined but possibly dirty ( from machining) part together without cleaning any swarf off of them.
It is very likely the jaw inserts could be tapped into horizontal parallelism by just loosening the clamping screws a little and give a few light taps with the copper mallet and check with a clock. All in all I think it is a a great value machine vice.
@@samrodian919 in fairness to the suppliers it is the quick assembly that keeps the final cost to the customer low. Dismantling and fettling isn't a great hardship to the end user really.
There's a guy on fleabay in California that has incredible prices on Kurt vices in excellent shape. If you live near him, he will cut you a deal if you bring him cash and he loves to screw over fleabay! Man after my own heart!
Bought a new bench top milling machine, looking for a vice. The table on this machines only 200mm (8") wide. A 4" vice will sit there nicely but the 5" allow you to clamp bigger work, and is 16" long ! What is maximum length of vice for a given table width??
Hi John. Excellent review, must say it looks the business. Vevor also make rotary tables, do you, or any of your other subscribers, have any info as to if they are the same quality as the vice? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks Noel
I would like to know about this. VEVOR Welding Table 36" x 18", 1200lbs Load Capacity Steel Welding Workbench Table on Wheels, 2 Layers Portable Work Bench with Braking Casters
Tried to order one of these and the site would not accept my address which is crazy because I have never had any issues with any other site or courier and the response from the so called help team was if you can’t enter your address we can’t deliver??? Most sites let you use a look up from your post code simple.
It will be more rigid certainly but not that much given the centre pin is usually machined with a close tolerance to the corresponding bore and it is held locked with the two tee bolts. I have a different make of swivel base vice constructed in the exact same way, and it's pretty rigid. That said yes loose the swivel base if you don't need to machine angles. But I use mine to raise the height of the work to get it into the scope of my lathe/ mill combo. Plus as I've only got an 8" x 6" cross slide table I often swivel the vice 90 degrees to hold the work the other way. ( I only have 160 mm travel between the centre of the spindle and the headstock spindle face)
