XY table revisited

I've got a larger and older one of those things. It is the very thing for lining up to drill holes, or even a series of holes. When it comes to milling it just doesn't seem to cut the mustard. I have tried a couple of times, into aluminium, it just seems extremely wobbly, and my drill press (a fairly large one, although of the cheep modern varietey) is really not happy.

I understand from reading about these things, milling in a drill-press is not a grate plan anyway, knackers the bearings, upsets the balance of the world, causes global warming etc.

As the 'mercans say, YMMV.

APTC do these:

BugBear

Interesting...these vices seem to change size at will (same pic used in all 3 pages ;-))

My experience with these vices is that if you treated them as a set of castings for making a cross vice you might end up with something half decent, but in "out of the box" condition they are fairly crap.

Regards, Tony

Should point out that the ones I have used/seen aren't the Axminster ones though...

Regards, Tony

They look a lot like the ones Machine Mart sell:

Tim