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Re: Homemade chain vise - In shop hand filing
« Reply #50 on: July 14, 2014, 12:41:47 am »
The Chainmeister clamps are the ones I showed in Post#17 in this thread; they are very well made. My 'home made' versions are in Post#18; fun to make, and they work too. 

TreeMachine intended the clamps to be mounted to a truck or bench, but I mounted them to a small board so that I could clamp them to any surface, including a picnic table, trailer bed, tailgate, etc.  Anywhere where a regular stump vise would not be convenient.  I also attached a small, pivoting, wooden cleat to the bottom of one board, so that the clamp can be held in my woodworking vise, which is flush with the workbench, as opposed to a mechanic's vise, which is mounted on the surface.  That works well, with the powerhead supported by the bench, instead of being up in the air.

I also modified one of the Chainmeister clamps: cutting off the base and having a 3/4" threaded rod welded on.  This one drops through a hole in a trailer bed, work table, etc.: anywhere that the vise might be used periodically, but not permanently.  It is clamped by a large wing nut from below, holds rock solid, and eliminates the use of clamps, which some people did not like.

Philbert

 

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