Wide Kurt vise jaw plates replacement 

Thank you for commenting.

Hi Stephan, thank you, I'll certainly get to an enclosure this fall.

Thank you, and it's great to hear from you :)

I have to make do with what I have :) I've considered adding holes towards the outer edges, outward from the vise, to receive bolts, to add just a little more clamping force. So far, has not been needed. Take care

Many thanks Bill! Time passes fast

Thank you guys, I'm glad this was useful. It's nice to hear from you

Thank you. I need to post on your website.

Thank you for pointing this out, I would not have thought of it, and it makes perfect sense that without the massive vise bed, the table is going to distort. Very interesting!

@@kentvandervelden Yeah I was in the tool dealers cash in hand wanting to buy one of those milling table vices some years ago. They were out of stock though. Not long after I spotted the first thread on PM about them distorting the tables if your not really careful. Machine tools can have some unexpected results with what your adding to them sometimes. I wouldn't have thought of it myself without those PM threads detailing the issue. With a big heavy duty cnc bed mill they would probably work real well. For light tightening and work holding on our lighter weight mills they should be fine, but for what I would have been using one for it would have been far past light. My mills manual and a 3/4 sized Bridgeport clone, so a little bit larger than yours. I bought a matched pair of these. www.glacern.com/gpv_615 if it fits within there jaw opening it's a good fairly expensive and a bit heavy way to go since a pair of them weigh about 170 lbs. I think your extended jaws should work well enough for the part sizes you were doing. A couple of C clamps on the ends would stiffen things up a lot if you ever run into a chatter issue.

Great to hear from you Fox :)

Simple and super useful. Thank you

@@kentvandervelden sure is, I want to try it with my 6inch vise, I scraped a big part the other day due to chatter . You have any tips on milling the bolt holes?

@@PepeCheizen Bolt holes will be no problem and could be done on a drill press if needed. If you don't need the step, even simpler. Want to have pieces that are square and parallel, but one could bootstrap those if needed. I considered adding holes for screws to clamp at the ends, not in contact with the vise jaws. Might be useful. I use large clamps instead.