keeping ball vice secure

[Bob Bullard]

Someone awhile back was asking how keep a ball vice from moving and what I have just started doing is that I put apiece of that rubberized shelf liner under it I used to use it in my motor home to keep things from shiftin in the cabinets when I was on the road . You can get at somepllce like Kmart or Walmart
Also I'm having apiece of heavy plate glass cut to go on my power hone to use to polish my gravers I'll let you know how and if it works
Bob

 

[coincutter]

sounds pretty dangerous
make sure its tempered and expect it to break real quickly
much safer proven ways to polish gravers than using glass

 

[Bob Bullard]

I had him make it out of plate glass and so far it seems to work well he is making me one more and on it I'll use it with a leather disc
Bob

 

[Andrew Biggs]

Hi Bob

One thing that you could possibley try just in case the glass does decide to shatter is put some self adhesive vinyl or masking tape on the underneath side. At least that way if it does break then you hopefully won't have glass flying all over the place.

If you went to a sign shop and asked for a bit of scrap vinyl they should give it to you for free.

Just a thought

Cheers
Andrew

 

[coincutter]

thats a great idea with the adhesive

its not so much an issue of the glass breaking under normal use
invariably you will one day slip and the sharpener will drop and ......

 

[monk]

i make them out of.25" thick pieces of plexiglass. perfectly flat, and they work very nicely.

 

[Billzach]

When i,m roughing out a design on a coin i get rather heavy-handed with my push gravers and my vise would move off the doughnut and with my gravermax the vise would have a little movement.., so about 6 years ago i welded a 1/2 bolt to the bottom of my grs vise and mounted my vise at a angle to my bench, worked great for a person only carving coins, about 3 years ago i brought a grs positioning vise and it too moved when i was roughing out my coins, so as i did before i welded a 1/2 bolt to the bottom and mounted it to bench, i do have it fixed where i can loose the nut on the bolt and change angles of the vise..For other forms of engraving this would not work well as i,ve found out by engraving a few knifes..

 

[thekoabenchgoldsmith]

what is the advantage of plate glass over the ceramic wheel GRS sells? Is it a cost thing?

reb

 

[Swede]

I like the plexiglass idea. I'll bet you could even charge plexiglass with diamond paste, but I don't know how long it would last if at all. Just a thought!

As for the ceramic wheel, I sure lusted after one when I started up, but the price put me off, so I never pulled the trigger. I haven't missed it at all. I don't think there's anything you can do with a ceramic disk that you cannot do with PSA diamond and alox disks, a charged brass or bronze disk, or a 1500+ grit regular diamond wheel. Simply turn the wheel by hand rather than under power for the lightest of cuts.

 

[Bob Bullard]

I have good results with using the plate glass discs but remember to get tempered plate glass
I have 3 now one for diamond paste one with leather on it ,and one I use with valve grinding
compound for a really quick to start shaping the tool or to lap a flat surface

 

[Ken Hurst]

I bought Lindsay diamond wheels that are mounted on aluminum disc. Not wanting to pay the high price asked for the ceramic disc, I turned the diamond wheel up-side down and spred the diamond grese on the alum underside ----- works like a charm. FWIW, ken

 

[monk]

you can charge plexiglass. i never charged it with diamond, but have charged it with different grades of silicon carbide grits. i could get plexi from a friend. it was scraps to him/ treasure to me. almost any slow moving disk can be charged so as to sharpen/polish. heavy grinds: glue disks of industrial grade wet/dry silicon carbide paper. with care, pre grinding can be done with your trusty dreml or whatever. this will save wearing away the more expensive abrasive surfaces. experiment and have fun. save money !