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Mini Mill Tooling

1 Introduction
2 Tool Holding
3 Drill Chucks
4 Holding End Mills
5 Drawbars
6 End Mills
7 Work Holding
8 Vises
9 Clamping Kits and Accessories
10 Setup Tools
11 Special Operations
12 Surfacing
13 Boring
14 Cutting Curves
15 Indexing
16 Tooling Packages
17 Spare Parts Kits
Mini Mill Tooling

Vises

There are a range of different types of vises that you can use on a mini mill. See our vise comparison page for a good description of the different kinds of vises.

Precision milling vise

Choose a vise that will handle the work you do. You don't need a 3" vise if the parts you make are a half inch long. While you can usually put small parts in a large vise, it is more convenient to use an appropriate-size vise.

Vise jaws are often too deep for the work. In general, you want the top of the work piece to extend above the top of the vise jaws. To fill the gap from the bottom of the work piece to the "ways" of the vise, you use parallels. Parallels are strips of metal that have been carefully ground so that the top and bottom edges are parallel with very tight tolerances. They usually come in matched pairs. Place one parallel adjacent to each jaw in the vise and place the work piece so it rests on the parallels.

Vise Options

Part
Number
Product

1591

Vise, 2" Screwless

1647

Vise, 3" Milling

2500

Vise, 3" Precision Milling

2024

Vise, 3" Precision Milling, Heavy, No Swivel Base

1699

Vise, 3" Precision Milling, Heavy, with Swivel Base

4740

Vise, 3" Precision Milling, Professional Grade

1590

Vise, 3" Screwless

1756

Vise, 3" Screwless Sine

1757

Space Block Set

1893

Thin Parallels, 3" Long, 10 Pairs

1232

Thin Parallels, 6" Long, 10 Pairs

 

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