Vise Pedestal Ideas?

[coolreed]

Anyone have some good/clever/brilliant pedestal ideas for a Vise?

Pictures would be nice.

 

[plinker]

Here's a couple I made. The one is a pair of cast iron wood lathe leg's salvaged from the local junkyard with a piece of 3/8 plate bolted to the top.

The other is a log trailer stake cut down with a 1/2" plate welded to it. It's sunk in a cut off 55gal. barrel filled w/ 240lbs. of concrete (w/ rebar). total weight is around about 300lbs.

I intend to make another, but it'll be more of a bench then a pedestal.


Here's a thread in the Fab. section......

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=140965

 

[Cyclotronguy]

In my shop the Wilton C2 lives on an stout engine stand with wheel brakes....very handy for fab work.

Wilton C0 is on a 2" stake that fits receiver hitch sockets pretty much every where I might wish a vise...... and a coupe of spots I might never need one.

Little 3" Morgan swivel jaw hangs off the left side of the milling machine, for deburing parts.

Cyclotronguy

 

[Harvey Melvin Richards]

My Taiwanese vise lives on a drive shaft flywheel stand. The price was right, I found it (flywheel and drive shaft) sitting by a dumpster. I have a Wilton C1 that I need to put on the stand. I like a semi mobile stand that I can take it outside when welding so I don't set the shop on fire.

 

[onelochevy]

Heres mine.

 

[dkroth]

Pick up the one on the left. It seems like a sturdy mount:

http://rochester.craigslist.org/tls/3870753895.html

Pics attached for posterity.

 

[Packard V8]

Life is tradeoffs. Most low, wide, heavy bases which will not move when holding large, long workpieces become effectively immobile.

The best one I've ever seen had two wheels on the back which were just off the floor when it was sitting flat. Tilt the vise back and the wheels allowed it to be rolled in, out, around.

jack vines

 

[btrnuthatch]

As Packard V8 noted, I made a stand with wheels. I meant to add some removable pipe handles for leverage to help tilt but haven't gotten around to it. The column can be rotated so I tapped a bolt at the bottom in order to tighten it into position. It sits outside so I wheel it into the shop when it rains. Crude but it works.

 

[rick carpenter]

How do cement-filled buckets or barrels hold up to pounding and the stresses of moving (rolling) them around? Seems like they might get a little wobbly after some period of time. I wonder if making the hole in the cement just a little bigger and then filling gaps with epoxy would help?

 

[bluebolt]

The auto collision repair course at the local votech has some neat ones I would like to copy. Flat square base with a piece of angle welded to back with casters on it for easy moving. Piece of pipe for the upright and another flat piece for the vice base. Simple and handy, can step on base for more weight to keep it from tipping

 

[larry_g]

Mine, I like a bit of a table under the vise. The base is a truck brake drum.

lg
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[alex71]

larry, what is that, 8" pipe? I dig it.

why bother with the swivel on a mount like that, where you can easily get to any side of it. or just rotate the base?

 

[2mJps]

Mine, I like a bit of a table under the vise. The base is a truck brake drum.

lg
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If you hate your sell put a table on the side of your vise. I did this and every time you use it things fall of and i am to dumb to cut it off.

 

[cclfn]

Here's one I am going to try on my post vise.

 

[Outlawmws]

Here is one I bought a while back (I since sold it) that used a truck drum and hub. Not going anywhere:

 

[larry_g]

larry, what is that, 8" pipe? I dig it.

why bother with the swivel on a mount like that, where you can easily get to any side of it. or just rotate the base?

The swivel came with the vise, no reason to remove it. That thing weights better than 300 lb and I have another vise on a similar stand that has jaws at the same height so if I need to use them both to hang on to a long piece having the swivel allows things to align better with out having to horse all that weight. I don't remember the pipe size but 8-9" seems about right.

lg
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[H2ohound]

Yea, I've got an idea. I saw this at my buddies shop. He used and old heavy duty drill press stand for his vise stand. He tossed the old broken press, cut the stand post down to a comfortable working height and attached vice on top. He even left the old press table attached. Every time I visit his shop and see it makes me want to go out and make one for myself.

 

[HTGTS350]

A quick one from the scrap pile