24260 Bench Vice

A very well made, neat little vice. The base is machined out of solid steel with slots for the bolts and a horizontal vee groove in the fixed jaw for holding round stock. The sliding jaw fits very well with no play in any direction and comes complete with the hold down bolts and a in a nice little wooden box. It is quite small but amply suitable for model making projects and designed for use with the Proxxon compound table.

I bought this vice to fit my Proxxon KT70 Micro Compound Table. It fits fine but the supplied bolts are too short. They fit if you don't use the supplied washers. The vice is well made. the quality is good. I'm very happy with it except for the short bolts.

A nicely engineered vice, designed to fit the Proxxon milling/drilling tables, it comes in a nice wooden box together with mountings. The mounting bolts were a little short and couldn't be used with the included washers but it worked just fine without. Somewhat over priced but then again if you want cheap, Proxxon do offer a die cast alternative for less than half the price. Despatch seems slow but in the end it arrived a day earlier than estimated.

I have this to go with the KT70 Compound table (same as the table used in the pictured milling machine above). It is well engineered, with a good clean machined finish, complimenting the table well, it comes with 10mm fitting bolts and a wooden box which it fits snuggly in to store and protect it when not in use. Overall excellent quality, highly recommended.

Well made, up to the standards expected from Proxxon products

Very prompt delivery and a good price. Axminster address always very helpful, answering questions and their customer service is the best. Proxxon gear is always reliable.

As I have now come to expect this is a high quality piece of kit that works well with my MF70

Excellent workmanship 10/10

Mycket bra kvalitet: tung, stål, bra ytfinish, exakt...

Schraubstock geeignet für den Proxxon Koordinatentisch, sichere Befestigung auf dem Tisch, unerlässlich um kleine Teile zu fixieren

Satisfecho

Een zeer mooi afgewerkte machineklem die heel nauwkeurig is. Ik gebruik deze op mijn Proxxon kruistafel.

This solid steel machine vise is one of the best made and can be one of the handiest machine vises for any mini or micro mill, as well as an insert vise for larger vertical mills. I have used one for over 6 years and have been more than satisfied with it for more than 6 years. I just ordered two more. The original one was made in Germany and came in a very nice wooden box. I hope they are still made in Germany. Until recently, I have basically used it for drilling on my drill press, because the hold down slots using M6x1 hex headed screws and using a 10mm open end wrench is very awkward. I recently drilled a couple of 3/16 inch holes right above the screw position trough the bottom jaw surface of the vise and used 10-32 socket headed set screws. The steel is not hardened and any high speed steel drill bit will work. This allows me to use 10-32 square nuts with my Proxxon MF70 mill, standard T-nuts with my Taig Micro-Mill, standard T-nuts with my Sherline mill, any Sherline T-nut supplied with any other mini or micro mill. This vise, with my modification, handily and easily mounts on my Sherline 4 inch rotary table. I have gone through many imported vises of the so called "screwless variety" and still often use the Sherline #3551 model. The precision machined right angle parallel sides allows for easy squaring onto the mill table, just like ant precision screwless machinist vise. While it might not be as good at preventing "movable jaw rise" as the screwless type, with my modification, the Proxxon is a real pleasure to use and it provides faster clamping and unclamping of parts for low volume production. Update: September 9, 2010. Yes, this vise is still made in Germany and comes in a slide top box. With custom "T" slot nuts, a have found this vise to be one of my favorites. I now own three of them. I so small ot production of specialty items and tooling. This has to be one of my favorites. It's worth every cent. You get what you pay for - precision German Made product that is second to none. Update: February 10, 2023 Yesterday, I received my fourth one of these vises that I purchased for my Taig mill. Again, I drilled a hole above the mounting slot so that I can use socket headed cap screws (SHCS) for easy mounting and removal with a Allen type hex wrench. Having forgotten on how I drill the holes, I again developed the technique on how to drill the holes perfectly centered in che correct position in the center of the circular mounting radiused area. A 1/4 inch outer diameter centering drill bit accomplices this easy. Opening the vise to clear the movable jaw away from the place where the hole needs to be drill and mounting on a drill press vise upside down. I slid the bit on the vise against the radius of the slot to drill a centering hole in the web above the slot on each side. A 3/16 inch bit was used to drill each center hole with a trough hole. I used specially made T slot nuts, but M6x1.0x12 button head cap screws would allow this vise to be mounted with the supplied M6x1.0 square nuts to the Proxxon MF70 mill table using a M4 hex wrench through the 3/16 inch hole above each slot. The photos show a heavily used vise and it's mounting on my MF70 mill, as well as the mounting of my fourth vise on my Taig mill. Contrary to one current reviewer, the access holes had no effect on the strength or accuracy of the vise. Thankfully, this vise is still made to a high standard in Germany.