Re: Making a Screwless Vise

"Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:1014rbu$2n8jb$1@dont-email.me...
I probably won't, but I have been thinking about it.
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I've used a piece of bar stock snugly fitted into and protruding above a tee slot as a vise fixed jaw of sorts. The mill was an RF-31 on which I'd found that the tee slots weren't quite parallel to table travel, so I milled the protruding portion of the stock parallel to X after shimming it up a little. The goal was a vise locating key that corrected the error, not relevant here.
Two such tee slot bars could hold crossbars that form the center spacer/backstop and clamping sides of a double vise. With more spacers you could cover the table top with mold blanks. The spacer/backstops could index on the back of the table to make the slot bar fit less critical.
In fitting the bar I found that the tee slot width wasn't constant either. It was close enough to file. That RF-31 from MSC was accurate to no better than 0.005", usually good enough for electronics packaging. More demanding jobs went to my Clausing.