06-12-2015, 11:39 AM
Most of the time I just put about 8 inches of something straight in the vice and eyeball it to the tee slots. I try not to always bolt things down in the middle of the table, so that vice gets moved a lot.
I have an old planer and like to read about them. They occasionally need the table surfaced to get rid of the hump in the middle. "Sag" on a mill. But a planer table is fully supported; it's not sagging. It was readily accepted that this effect is caused by repeatedly bolting things to the middle of the table. The tee-nuts compress and deform the iron table and cause it to warp. So don't do that to your mill either.
I have an old planer and like to read about them. They occasionally need the table surfaced to get rid of the hump in the middle. "Sag" on a mill. But a planer table is fully supported; it's not sagging. It was readily accepted that this effect is caused by repeatedly bolting things to the middle of the table. The tee-nuts compress and deform the iron table and cause it to warp. So don't do that to your mill either.