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I share your agony and intend to never use kits that require only a modicom of timber around the brass for obvious reasons. Drilling lesson mark 1 is to ensure the drill is at right angles to the vice in all directions it took me hours to set up my wonky drill press. The skills needed on these kits have to be developed first when drilling. You will receive advice on drill speed, types of drills etc before you jump into precision the term for accurate drilling and lathe set up accuracy. Everything depends on you. I humbly suggest you lash out and fit another prismatic jaw on the other side of your vice the use of only one is fraught with slip. When I can I will show you my simple set up and I commend also the use of that cross slide vice for increased versatility using two of those prismatic jaws. Using the cross slide features demands setting up each slide movement using the screws provided to take up any slop there they are called gibbs. What I suggest comes before the drilling process and using your best kit and top blank. Incidentally there are many and various prismatic jaws as you will discover.

All the best

Peter.

<blockquote data-quote="Penpal" data-source="post: 216771" data-attributes="member: 122">I share your agony and intend to never use kits that require only a modicom of timber around the brass for obvious reasons. Drilling lesson mark 1 is to ensure the drill is at right angles to the vice in all directions it took me hours to set up my wonky drill press. The skills needed on these kits have to be developed first when drilling. You will receive advice on drill speed, types of drills etc before you jump into precision the term for accurate drilling and lathe set up accuracy. Everything depends on you. I humbly suggest you lash out and fit another prismatic jaw on the other side of your vice the use of only one is fraught with slip. When I can I will show you my simple set up and I commend also the use of that cross slide vice for increased versatility using two of those prismatic jaws. Using the cross slide features demands setting up each slide movement using the screws provided to take up any slop there they are called gibbs. What I suggest comes before the drilling process and using your best kit and top blank. Incidentally there are many and various prismatic jaws as you will discover.All the best Peter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Penpal, post: 216771, member: 122"] I share your agony and intend to never use kits that require only a modicom of timber around the brass for obvious reasons. Drilling lesson mark 1 is to ensure the drill is at right angles to the vice in all directions it took me hours to set up my wonky drill press. The skills needed on these kits have to be developed first when drilling. You will receive advice on drill speed, types of drills etc before you jump into precision the term for accurate drilling and lathe set up accuracy. Everything depends on you. I humbly suggest you lash out and fit another prismatic jaw on the other side of your vice the use of only one is fraught with slip. When I can I will show you my simple set up and I commend also the use of that cross slide vice for increased versatility using two of those prismatic jaws. Using the cross slide features demands setting up each slide movement using the screws provided to take up any slop there they are called gibbs. What I suggest comes before the drilling process and using your best kit and top blank. Incidentally there are many and various prismatic jaws as you will discover. All the best Peter. [/QUOTE]

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