Look at what I won - Cast Iron Tooling Cubes! :rolleyes:

I saw these a few days ago in eBay, and threw a bid at it!
Not sure what I'm going to do with them, but they are nice!

I've used them in other shops to prop up large parts on a mill table, to get them into position for machining! But these are much smaller, only 4"x4"x6"
Perfect size for my little machine shop! (chair)

I've been looking for one of these for a long time, it was listed in Woodworking Vises, so not too many bids!

These UniVises are really usefull for grinding tool bit angles on a surface grinder! This is an old "Rockwell" brand, made from heavy cast iron!

My shop is filling up!
Eric

nice find on the Rockwell. The local used machinery idiot wanted $900 bucks for one, yeah right, so i made my own. very handy, and you could make a head for it like i did to hold drill bits and get perfect faceted sharped drills. here's a pic of the drill head and the sharped drills. it would easy to do the 6 facet routine for even more accurate work, but i find these cut within a thou or two. v block was case hardened then ground, the rest is brass and mild steel.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b201/michael0100/universal%20swivel/pt2trvbloc.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b201/michael0100/universal%20swivel/pt2readytogrind.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b201/michael0100/universal%20swivel/pt2sharpeneddrills.jpg

McGiver, That's a nice gizmo!
I had followed you posts on another forum, where you made your own "Universal Vise", needless to say it was very impressive! That is also where I got the bug to get one of my own! :)

Eric

No Doubt Mcgyver, that is sweet!! I want one now. Ya know whats funny is I always used to toss out dull drill bits and buy new ones, never even realized you can get 'em back to new with a grinder until I joined this forum...Hey I,m a glass guy what did ya expect...