A vise (American) or vice (British) is a mechanical apparatus used to secure an object to allow work to be performed on it. Vises have two parallel jaws, one fixed and the other movable, threaded in and out by a screw and lever.Types
can vice made of cast steel or malleable cast iron.
Others[edit]
Other kinds of vise include:
- Hand vises
- Machine vises - drill vises (lie flat on a drill press bed). Vises of the same general form are used also on milling machines and grinding machines.
- compound slide vises are more complex machine vises. They allow speed and precision in the placement of the work.
- Cross vises, which can be adjusted using leadscrews in the X and Y axes; these are useful if many holes need to be drilled in the same workpiece using a drill press. Compare router table.
- Off-center vises
- Angle vises
- Sine vises, which use gauge blocks to set up a highly accurate angle
- Rotary vises
- Diemakers' vise
- Saw vices - These are used for sharpening hand saws.
- Pin vises (for holding thin, long cylindrical objects by one end, or used as a drill(scale modeler's pin vise))
- Jewellers' vises and by contrast
- Leg vises, which are attached to a bench but also supported from the ground so as to be stable under the very heavy use imposed by a blacksmith's work.
