With the set screw on the "front" I hold the hook in the right hand at the eye end and set the bend in the jaws bracing my middle finger against the back of the jaw tip. The left hand easily turns the set screw and is well back and out of the way.
I just brought this minor issue up to see if it was just me or if others felt the same.
Last edited by ducksterman; 12-03-2012 at 05:00 PM. Reason: original description was wrong.
What you are describing is essentially a machinist clamp. I had to take some industrial art shop class in college and had to make one from 3/4" bar stock with a manual hacksaw, file & die set. I still have it and it still works when I can find it.
machinist clamp.jpg
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Huh? On Renzetti's, you either buy the left or right handed version, and the screw is on the side facing the tyer. Might be a problem for other vises, but if this is an issue, then don't buy those vises...Originally Posted by ducksterman
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This is my vise of his. Note the adjustment screw on tier's side........vise in the foreground. However, now we have the opening and closing lever on the opposite side.........
Last edited by Byron haugh; 12-03-2012 at 07:30 PM.
Bryon, it doesn't have to be that way. The cam lever can be very accessible.
Witness a Griffin Montana Mongoose ....the Renzetti as mentioned ..and there are many others..I know I'm preaching to the choir
http://www.npplinc.com/FF/wp-content...IFFIN-VISE.jpg
These have a cam lever that I will call "horizontal throw"...I mostly used a Danvise in the past...it comes with the set screws on the "back" of the jaws but because the cam lever is thrown horizontally I could rearrange the jaws and end up with the set screw in front...which I did.
Now to my real issue...I now have a Jvice... as you know ....and it has the set screw on the back....and it has what I would call a vertical throw on the cam lever.....a direction I find superior to the horizontal BTW.....but because of it I can't rearrange the jaws. I don't understand why Jay did it that way???
Thought I would ask here first before asking him.
Whatfly, I never thought of the issue when I purchased but actually the vise is so great it is not a deal breaker.
"I happily tie on a Jvice"...now.....but would change the set screw in a heartbeat.
I never found that problematic - for me anyway. I just looked at Pettijean's vise and I believe it is the same as Jay's in that regard.
My Renzetti Traveler has it on the front - and it is most convenient
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