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carpenters flush mount bench vise recommendation

scale

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Hear me out.

I have a bench that is outside as i like to work outdoors in the summer months while it is nice. I am wanting to attach a carpenters flush style mount to it and then make wooden T bases for thing like my bench grinder, buffer/polisher etc so i can just set them down into the vise, clamp them down and start using the tool and then quickly be able to remove it all and put it away when done.

I am after a carpenters style vise that mounts under the bench and one that can have the whole sliding piece removed. That way i can unscrew and pull out the business end of the vice and store it indoors when not in use and the whole thing wont rust up or get weathered all to hell right away. I am curious to know if they make a quick release version that would work so i can just pull the quick release ....slide the whole thing out and done. My guess is no since the quick release mech/handles etc seem to be built into the moving part of the jaw.

Right now i picked up up Pony Jorgenson non quick release 9 inch model that just has a small roll pin in the end of the main drive screw that i can remove to accomplish this and then just manually unscrew the whole thing and that might have to be good enough.

I see most vises seem to have a plate on the back across both guide rods and the screw itself. That all would need to be removed.
Id be nice if the release mechanisum was built into the fixed side of the vise so you reach under, pull the lever and pull the whole thing out or put it where you want it to set it up for your work piece. Seems like most have that quick release on the working part of the vice which im sure will add complexity and prevent the removal of of the working side of the jaws.

I wish i had a bunch of models to compare to see if such a thing was possible. I guess, in the end i can just "suffer" by taking the extra minute to screw in manually if there is no option here.
 
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There are vises like the “Toles” style vise, that use a screw with a groove cut parallel along the screw, so the “dynamic” (ie. Moving), jaw can slide freely in and out, until the handle is turned, which then engages the vise screw with a partial vise nut, causing the vise jaw to tighten.
There is a maximum tightening distance of about an inch, (I think).
The partial nut is mounted in a lower cast iron static jaw, which would be mounted to the bench.
These partial nuts might be mounted loosely, requiring modification to keep the nut in place.
The design has been modified over time, with Morgan taking over production decades ago.
These Morgan “Toles” vises, are the 100 and 200 series vises as far as I can tell.
Most places that carry Morgan vises seem to carry a different quick action vise Morgan makes that uses a Sliding bronze nut that fits loosely in place that likely would not work for your use. (I believe these are the 18 and 28 series vises).
There would still be the cast iron bench mounted jaw that could rust.
You might be better off just nickel plating all the rust probe parts, and then costing those nickel plated parts with Boeshield T9 with a top coat of Renaissance wax.

The term used for the Toles pattern vise screw is an “interrupted thread”, or “interrupted screw”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupted_screw


Lee Valley also manufactures “Pipe Vise” hardware, modeled after, and using a mechanism similar to a pipe clamp.
The complete Pipe Vise is $109 and $70 for an extra mounting base “static jaw” .
 

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