Todays Project - What did you do today?

[f350ca]

Started cleaning up the shaper vice. The bottom of the base was a little rusty, was going to try electrolysis but opted for scraping it and buffing with a scotch bright type disk. Cleaned up nice. Used blueing on a 9x12 surface plate to check for flatness, shows good contact around the bolt holes where it matters so thats good. Checked the surface where the vice goes for parallel, its within 1/2 a thou so its looking good.


Once assembled and bolted to the table I can check the ways for parallel  by moving the table sideways and the ram in and out. I can raise the table up and down to check if the vice jaw is square to the table, BUT how do I know the ways are square. Think I now need to make a cylindrical square to check that. With the square I could also be sure the slide the clapper is on is set square to the table then use it to check the jaw.
The more I do the more work I create.