Flex in vise plate
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Hey guys… I’m getting a tiny bit of flex in my vise plate. I have a vise with a wooden block plate, not one of the record style vices. There’s a picture of it on page 2 of this thread. https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com/discussions/topic/workbench/page/2/
When it first started, I put some slighty wider screws into the plate, which is made of the same pine from which my bench was made. That helped for a short time, but I think that wood is just expanding around the screw a tiny bit each time I have something in the vise.
My question is… is there a good way to anchor those screws somehow so that the plate is rigid? I would like to try to save this without having to replace the plate or vise. Thanks for any advice you can offer.
It’s probably moving because of the torque being placed on the wood. If you are like me, the top half of your vise gets used more than the bottom. I’d run a bolt through the entire thing and tighten it down, recess the bolt head into the wood so it doesn’t mark up work pieces in the vice.
31 January 2014 at 8:24 pm #26948Jay I would do three things….
1. switch out the pine for hardwood at least 2″ thick, laminate several pieces together if need be.
2. make the holes for the guide rods in the new hardwood jaw as tight a fit as possible.
3. swap out the screws for either lag bolts or thru bolts and countersink the heads.I put the bolts in today and I think they have put a good limit on the flex. I can see that there still is a bit and I will probably have to take Greg’s advice, at some point, and make a hardwood plate… or I may just put that money towards an Eclipse. Regardless, the bolts have helped for now and I thank you guys again for the advice.
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