If you have an old screw jack lying unnecessarily, you can use it for the garage and home workshop. For example, to make a very convenient functional vice for a drilling machine.
For this homemade product you will need several pieces of a building corner 40 * 40 mm, a channel width of 120 mm, as well as a metal strip 50 mm wide and a profile pipe of square section 40 * 40 mm.
First of all, you need to cut all the blanks necessary for making a homemade vice. After that, the master proceeds to the most interesting part of the preparation - disassembling the old screw jack.
The main stages of work
At the next stage, with the help of a grinder, it is necessary to make cuts in the corners and channel. From pieces of the corner it will also be necessary to make a couple of clamping jaws for a vice. On the outside, the master makes a notch.
Actually, when all the basic details of the structure are prepared (it will still be necessary to cut two pieces of the profile pipe along the width of the channel), you can proceed directly to assembling the machine vice itself.
At the last stage, they are installed on the desktop of the drilling machine. For more information on how to make a functional machine vise from an old screw jack, we recommend that you look in the video on the site.
