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Has anyone built and does any one use the sliding base for the drill press vise offered by SS? I have had the plan for it for some time (along with a lot of specialty jaw plans) but it is not clear to me the circumstances where it might be useful.

I could imagine it being used for a milling operation, similar to what a cross-slide vise might be used for, with a milling bit and probably a router chuck for lateral stability. I don't have one, though, so that's just what comes to mind.

I don't know what the current plans for a base look like but I have built one and have used it in a lot of different ways. The plans I believe came from the old OPR manual, but I might not be remembering that right.

So anyway here are a few of my posts that might be relevant.

Here is one on using the vice on the old 500 table and had a drawing of the base for reference.

http://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/viewtopic.php?t=11289

Here is one where I used the base while drilling out a trunnion hole. At this point it is do its bit part to protect the table from metal bits from the drilling.

http://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/viewtopic.php?t=4458

Here is one where it is shown with the old OPR:

http://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/viewtopic.php?t=2730

I'm sure in appears in other photos on other projects but I can't recall which ones.

Ed

As we have all come to0 expect - excellent presentation, Ed. Thank you.