I just setup a turnkey for a customer using 4" chick vises on a chick sub plate...it's a high production turnkey, so repeatable workholding was a necessity...we were able to fit 4 of them on the sub plate right next to each other inside a minimills travel...very very slick setup...very repeatable, and we were able to setup the jaws to be sorta foolproof in that the parts that are similar but not identical can only really be loaded in the correct locations.
If you don't do a lot of production, but rather you do a lot of small volume stuff...I'd rather see Kurt or similar vices in the machine...more flexibility. If it were my own machine, I'd probably start out with Kurt's and if I got a high volume order, or a recurring order...I'd add some Chick workholding to my setup. They work great, and they're very repeatable... |