Civil Engineering Reference
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The majority of the work you will do will need the vice set at 90 degrees to
the milling machine's X axis. I do not recommend that you use a swivel base
if your vice has one. This raises the vice off the table, it reduces headroom
height and it makes the setup a lot less rigid.
If you have two vices the same, set them up on the milling machine side by
side. You will find this very useful. Firstly you can hold long workpieces in both
vices at the same time. Secondly you can hold a parallel tightly in one vice so
it cannot move in the second vice. Thirdly, you can use the left-hand vice to
hold a work-stop and the right-hand vice to clamp the work. If the bases of the
vices are at slightly different heights, just machine a pair of parallels to suit so
the height over the top of the two parallels is matching.
