Some time ago I wrote about using the wcubed vise for the Pocket NC. While I don’t end up using it very often any more, mostly because I rarely work with rectangular stock, it can be useful from time to time. Unfortunately, it is no longer manufactured. In case anyone is interested in replicating it, I’ve taken at least a minimal stab at modeling it up based on measurements of my unit along with necessary hardware as picked from McMaster. I suspect the model should be good enough to get something that works.
Note, that there are a number of quirks and annoyances that you’d probably want to fix if you did make more of these:
- The main drive screw is an imperial #8-32. Ideally you would use a metric one, as everything else on the PNC is.
- The nut that you use to tension is annoyingly small and easy to strip.
- There is no reason to have holes for only 2 alignment pins, it might as well have 4 at least.
The bigger problem is that as the jaws are aluminum, you can’t actually apply a lot of clamping pressure before stripping out the threads. But, as long as you keep that in mind, it is serviceable.
With those caveats out of the way, here’s the link!
A Modicum of Fun 