{"product_id":"cross-slide-worktable-vise","title":"Cross-slide worktable with vise","description":"\u003cp\u003eA drill press holds the bit still and lets you move nothing. This is the part that moves the work. An aluminium table on two screws, a steel vise bolted on top, and a handwheel for each axis, so you wind the part to where the next hole goes instead of nudging it and hoping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat it does\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTurn the front handwheel and the table travels toward you. Turn the side one and it travels across. Each wheel has a graduated collar, so a hole 12 mm from the last one is twelve marks, not a guess and a ruler.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe green base swivels. Loosen it, turn the whole assembly to an angle, lock it, and the two axes now run at that angle instead of square to the bench. That is how you drill a row of holes along a line that is not parallel to anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe vise on top is steel with flat jaws, and it comes already fitted. It is not a separate purchase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThis one is not for our machine\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe need to be blunt about this, because it is the first thing you will want to know. It does \u003cstrong\u003enot\u003c\/strong\u003e go on the Mikrabench drill press. It weighs 2.6 kg and it is built for a full-size bench drill press or a small mill - the base has slots so you clamp it to that machine's table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf your machine is the little 12 volt one, the tool you want is the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/xy-stage-60\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eXY stage, 60 mm\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, which bolts straight to its base. This page is for the bigger press you already own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eShipping\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the second thing on the site that does not come from overseas. The supplier holds it in a warehouse in the United States, and quotes about a week to ten days. That is their figure. We have not timed a shipment yet, and when we have, the real number goes here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the maker publishes, and what it does not\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModel BG-6369. Aluminium alloy table and base, steel vise. It ships in a 25 by 25 by 17 cm box at 2.62 kg.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat the maker does \u003cstrong\u003enot\u003c\/strong\u003e publish anywhere we can find is how far each axis actually travels, or how wide the vise opens. We are not going to invent those numbers or borrow them from a similar-looking table. When we have one on the bench we will measure it and print what we measured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHonest limits\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOwners report a little play in the leadscrews. That is what an aluminium table at this price is: it will put a hole where you wound it to within a fraction of a millimetre, and it is not a machine-tool slide. Wind up to a position from one direction rather than backing into it and the play stops mattering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a positioning table, not a mill. Side load from an end mill is more than this is built for, and more than a drill press spindle is built for either.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mikrabench","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46212225007807,"sku":null,"price":79.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0760\/5826\/3743\/files\/S3649b8674e02427c864161a56784b395k.webp?v=1789571838","url":"https:\/\/arvonelle.com\/products\/cross-slide-worktable-vise","provider":"ARVONELLE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}