HFS(R) 5" Cross Slide Vise Drill Press Metal Milling 2 Way X-Y Heavy Duty Clamp Machine Benchtop Drill Presses
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Size: 5in
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- [JAW WIDTH]: 5 Inch
- [HIGH QUALITY]: Made from the highest quality ductile Iron 80000 PSI for minimum bending.
- [FEATURES]: Premium quality swiveling milling vise features perfectly aligned precision gowned jaws.
- [DOUBLE SCREW RODS]: Longitudinal/cross travel and adjustable gibs.
- [APPLICATION]: Designed for woodworking and metalworking.
Description
This 5" cross sliding vise will easily turn your drill press into a milling machine. With the vise and its precise moving slider, wood and metal parts can be easily processed with high precision and high quality. It can also be connected to a lathe or other tools to fix the workpiece in the exact position required. Key Points: Durable cast iron construction Powerful serrated steel jaws Cold rolled steel screws 2 swivel crank handles for adjusting vise front to back and left to right Bolt down slots for securing Hinged vise crank handles drops out of the way Designed for woodworking and metalworking Product Specification: 4-3/4" throat opening, 5" longitudinal and 4.5" cross travel, jaw width: 5" - Maximum, jaw opening: 4 1/2", base size: 9 3/4" x 5 1/2", overall unit size 11 1/2" x 11 1/4" x 6 3/4"Vise and cross slide have adjustable shimsCross slides have removable adjusting crank handles
Material: Stainless Steel
Brand: HFS
Item dimensions L x W x H: 11.42 x 11.3 x 6.42 inches
Color: Blue
Style: Modern
Item Weight: 18 pounds
Tensile Strength: 80000 psi
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Number of Packs: 1
Number of Items: 1
Brand Name: HFS
Model Number: 16044
UPC: 819300016044
Number of Packs: 1
Number of Items: 1
Unit Count: 1 Count
Manufacturer: HFS
Manufacturer Part Number: 16020
Item Dimensions: 11.42 x 11.3 x 6.42 inches
Item Weight: 18 pounds
Material Type: Stainless Steel
Tensile Strength: 80000 psi
Color: Blue
Style Name: Modern
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Size: 3in
Pros: - This heavy solid metal device seems very sturdy and well made. I have no worries about its durability. - The mounting slots looked like they might let the bolts slip, but turned out to work great once I had it set up. - The adjusting cranks and compression screws allow for reasonably precise operation over a surprisingly wide range of motion. Cons: - The piece is a little bit tall, be sure you have enough room beneath your drill press before you buy it. - The lower crank is somewhat sticky. Operating it quickly requires so much force that I wind up lifting and shaking the entire drill press (and the workbench it's attached to) if I don't use a second hand to hold it steady. (Still gets the job done though, this is only a minor annoyance) - There were sizable scrap metal chips stuck in the grease in all the mechanisms. It may jam and/or damage itself if you don't clean it before the first time you use it. (Not a problem so long as you notice before you try to use it) Overall a very nice piece of hardware for the price. I am very satisfied with how well it works.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2015 by Amazon Customer
Size: 5in
I purchased the Hardware Factory Store (HFS) 5” cross-slide drill press vise, #16044. Despite oddities and flaws, this vise provides new capabilities for my drill press at modest cost. When I unpacked it, I was forced to remove the slides and file the sharp edges of the dovetails because they were preventing the dovetail slides and flat ways from making contact. I ground sharper points on the gib screws so the gibs would press snugly against the dovetails. These improvements made slide movements reasonably smooth. I didn’t check all the machining for flatness, parallelism, and perpendicularity, but the flat ways for the lowest slide are out of parallel with the base by about 0.050”, so this will never be a high-precision vise. The cranks and their spinner handles are plastic and felt like they might fail, so I inserted a metal sleeve in the spinners to take up the slack and filled the square mortises for the cranks with epoxy to tighten them up. The lead screws and dials for the hand cranks are unusual, as the dial has 30 increments per revolution. I attached a digital caliper to provide an accurate readout and found that over the full 5” range of travel, this vise advances 0.133 mm/0.0052” for each increment on the dial, which is 3.99 mm/0.156” per revolution of the dial. This non-standard system will make achieving precision drill patterns unnecessarily difficult.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2024 by beryl33
Size: 5in
First like many others, mine was really stiff. The only lube on the threads appears to be the cutting oil from cutting the threads and finishing the sliding surfaces. I took it totally apart cleaned it up and applied proper lubercation to all the moving parts. Other than needing some shims to tighten up the loose spots, it does what it is supposed to. If I had mounted the handles and tried to force it to work as it came out of the box, I would have broken the pot metal handles. It is inexpensive and as such needs a bit of a tune-up. It is useable and I like mine. Number one hint is, lubercate it before you force it.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2019 by Mr. Terry Miller
Size: 4in
Yes, several other lukewarm reviews are fairly spot-on. The very first thing I did to this vise upon receipt was to try it out, and confirm that it was as clunky as other reviews said. (Very much so. It was almost unusably rough, and the movements were difficult--nearly impossible---to turn without backing off the jib screws, and even loosening the screws near the crank) I then disassembled it to try to improve! I pulled every main piece apart. The first thing I noticed was that the ways were very rough, as well as being warped from bad castings, and **several drill holes** were SEVERELY misaligned. This one looked like it was drilled by hand, folks. I proceeded to file flat and gently smooth the ways (dovetails first, then beds--25 min) and took the jibs to a flat grinding stone to flatten and smooth (3 min) . The jibs have a rough, non-centered hole drilled in one end to grab one of the adjustment screws, so it won't slide out of the dovetail. On the largest (we'll call X) axis--the base piece, the Acme screw passes through a block that pins to the movement above it by a 1/2" (appx) cast pin. This block is not square--not a 90 on it-- and the pin had a nasty casting leftover artifact on the end. The pin was round--it'd been ground or lathed clean enough to fit. The whole block, however--did NOT line up with the bore of the Acme screw from one end of the main base casting! This made the action very rough, obviously. I saw three courses of action. 1) fabricate a new block out of delrin, etc. Could not do because I can't tap Acme with my existing tools. 2) Drill a new hole for the pin inline with the Acme screw. It may mess up the overall throw of the way, but I may yet use this option. 3) Leave the screws holding the crank/Acme to the base casting REALLY loose. YEP! It worked. Next, the Y-axis. One of the jibs would not lie flat. I needed an additional 5-minutes of file work to fix what I hadn't really done right earlier. Once completed, the jib would sit in the dovetail with the screw slightly exposed to hold. The drillings that hold the Acme for the Y-axis were also misaligned, but not nearly so badly as the holes on the X. That said, the drillings that held the Acme-to-casting plate were far enough off that if both used, the crank wouldn't turn. So, I could only install one. I could redrill/tap in another spot on the plate, but I have a feeling that it will be fine. The vise itself was actually fine. It's a chrome plated screw, and moved very cleanly. Once I had greased and re-assembled the vise, movement was better, if not "precise." The adjustment screws were set, and the wing-nutted screws provided solid lockup, so there was no worry of wiggle. There are metered markings on the X/Y crank and plate, but using a micrometer to show how much movement each measured didn't prove insightful--they gave no meaningful meter in either metric or english.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2016 by Patrick Grow
Size: 4in
Looking at this vise just out of the box, putting the handles on it, it appears to be a real solid piece of equipment and at $42.50 this is a terrific bargain considering what it can do. You can actually mill a straight cut in a piece of steel or other material with an end mill bit, etc. with this moving vise. What a terrific bargain for what this machine can do! So far so good. Make great slots for bolt action receivers, and can slot an ejection port, etc., make a slot in a flat piece also. Good slotting tool for pen gun makers. No more sloppily cut slots with this machine.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2018 by 00xuser
Size: 4in
It is cheap, so have low expectations. I took it apart to clean all the guides and ways, then I polished them all carefully, the steel slider strips need polishing too. Deburred all edges and corners. I did find that the crank handle stops the slide from moving the full travel, so I did a lot of grinding with a dremel to cut away where the handle hits the vice itself. Now I can move the slide to halfway and beyond on the slides. It is messy to polish or grind cheap cast iron. Don’t try to clamp down on anything too hard, it will crack this vice, it is to hold items needing some work on them. Also don’t rely upon the graduations, I have no idea what they measure….. As a basic simple cross slide vice, with some work, this works well enough. It is not for professional or heavy use, it is an occasional job type tool, which it will perform adequate doing.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2026 by AH
Size: 5in
1. The main screw is not center aligned for the top movement. So when the top moves closer to the center, where the top moves closer to the (casting) nut of the bottom, the main top screw misalignment makes it more angularly away from the center line, and hence the top movement cannot be safely moved any further to the center, even though there is distance available distance. We better stop the top movement at a safe place not too near the center, else there will be permanent damage done on the top's cast nut, due to the misalignment getting more pronounced at closer distances. I had to augment a wooden spacer between the top jaws, in order to hold something to be right below the drill. 2. The bottom alignment is another bad story. the cast nut for the bottom is a peg that is really not having enough metal in its cubic dimension. Dont know why they couldnt have made it a larger cube. The small cube nut is threaded so close to one side of the cube, in an attempt to correct the center alignment here as well. The cube nut is attached to the top platform using just a peg in a socket method, and that peg is so so loose in the socket itself. If you attempt to overhaul and remove all and put back all, then remember the direction of the cube nut in its socket. It is off centered, and if you put the cube nut the wrong way, it will cause more and more mis alignment. 3. There is also a rotation play on the bottom main screw, before the bottom even starts moving this way or that way. The center misalignment problem is there in this screw/cubenut as well. probably thats why that cube nut peg is kept so loose in socket so that it doesnt break when user moves the mis aligned main screws. The object holding jaw is another story. 4. The fixed half of the jaw doesnt come any where near to the center where the drill bit comes down. so, if you really want to drill something small, you are out of luck unless you augment the gap with some additional stuff along with the object, in order to get the object held under the drill bit. 5. The top screw tightening is showing resistance at one side, for every turn of the handle. this means the main screw of the top is bent. It can be very well noticed if we look at the handle holding support plate area, while we turn the handle. the handle and the main screw is rotating eccentrically, indicating that the main screw is bent with respect to the cast nut. 6. The top movement handle will start hitting the bottom's friction setting screws as the top approaches the center. They have used friction screws that are longer than necessary. smaller length screws could have prevented this, but before this, they have to first fix the mis alignment in order to even allow the top to go closer to the center. 7. Packaging is absolutely foolish. Dont know why they are trying to save thermocoal materla. The item was packed diagonally, with the most important main screw almost touching the thin sheet of the packing box itself. there is only about 1/2 mm of thermocaol in the corner. and thats where the handle screw is ending. The one I received has already taken bad hit on the corner, and the main screw end where it becomes the handle screw was already damaged on its handle screw thread. I had to re thread that part of the main screw in order to fit the handle and its nut. They have to revisit their design. they have to re-position the cast nut for correct alignment, do appropriate corrections on the handle holder plate for center alignment, increase the cast nut cube volume for the bottom nut, more quality control on the main screw bends, increase the dimensions of the packing material and box. The castings of the top and bottom was otherwise not sufficient.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2020 by Jose Panakkel
Size: 5in
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