findmall 3" x 2.95" Accuracy Mill Vise Without Base for Milling Shaping and Drilling Machines

It's a pretty good vise for the money. I purchased the 4" variety which works well with my smaller mill. The slot keys are accurate enough to fit well with the bottom of the vise. They were a bit too big for the slots in my Grizzly mill, but it was easy enough to machine those portions of the edges to fit. I think the excess was a bit of a plus as I could closely fit the keys to my mill table slots. The surfaces that count appear to be true and well made: the vise works quite well. Only thing odd is that the nuts for the table clamp T-bolts were either poorly made or they were going for a self retaining nut that wouldn't loosen. I'm guessing the later but I'm not as much a fan of that approach when lock washers are readily available. Overall, a great buy.

I got this for my Bridgeport milling machine. I was unsure of the quality but I ordered it anyway. It's heavy, the casting was ok. The moveable jaw mine had a ding in the top that doesn't affect function. I disassembled it and mapped on my surface plate, it was only out about . 001 at one corner, otherwise the top and bottom are parallel. I scraped the bottom perfectly flat and then scraped one top corner down and all is good. I did tap the fixed jaw holes deeper and replaced the Chinese bolts with longer American ones, the removable jaws are very hard, I milled little steps in the top region of the jaws with a carbide dovetail cutter and now I can clamp stuff up there without parallels. I use the steps more than anything. It's a good vise for the money, but it's no Kurt. Oh yeah I milled the 45 degree v that pulls the jaw down so it was flatter and that helped too. I look at stuff like this as more of a vise kit than a finished ready to use vise. If your a home shop guy and have time to blueprint and finish this vise, then it's a good deal for you. It can be made into a very accurate, very decent vise. Better than most of the Chinese milling vises that come with rotary base. If you don't want to fine tune it and expect it to be perfect out of the box then you need to buy a Kurt vise, not this. It's a good vise kit, replace some bolts with better longer ones, fine tune it for your usage and it's a pretty good bargain. Especially if you don't have the money for a new Kurt and live in an area where used Kurt's are rare to non-existent like me.

Bought one, scraped it in, and was so happy with it, I bought another one to scrape in as a matched pair. I don't think I'll find a matched pair of milling vises for under $100.00 anywhere on earth. Having said that, it's a good starting place for someone who knows enough to make it righteous.

Good value, works very well. Used in my home shop to hold work for drilling and milling.

This a great vise for the money. The only problem I had was the hold down bolts for the angle base were a little too long and would not allow the vise to rotate on the base. I just ground the length of the bolts down. Works great.

Tried it once and It performed nicely

i just got the mill about a week b4 i got the vise. i started to get a 3inch vise but wanted to get something i could use on as much as possible so i went with the 4 inch vise cause the width of the bed on my mill was 4 3/4 wide so i thought it would get the most out of it. again this was my first mill so im figuring it all out as i go an after getting the vise it is a bit big for the mill but this could be normal i dont know for sure. i do know the vise is attach to the bed an has made holding parts easier an so much easier for me to get the parts square to the head so ive been able to make square parts. everything im doing may be the wrong way but its working for me an i dont really have anyone i can question on this stuff so im more or less jumping into it head first without know anything about it so please correct me if im wrong but at this point i would suggest anyone who has the wen 33013 4.5amp the 4inch vise works great for it unless you know better, coming from a complete novice on machining it works for me.

This vice is decent for the money. It needed the cam adjusted to actually hold the workpiece down on the parallels. You must be careful as the jaws aren't hardened adequately. They can dent extremely easily if anything is dropped on them. Also, the material is unsatisfactory as it started to develop some mild surface rust even with oil still on the pivoting face.