Vice or Engineering Vice
In general vice means a mechanical tools used for metal working. Actually a vise is a mechanical screw apparatus generally used to hold or clamp workpiece. The purpose of clamping of the workpiece is to allow machining on it with different hand tools and machine tools like saws, files, sandpapers, drills, mills etc. Vices generally consists of two parallel jaws, one is fixed and another moves towards and away with help of a screw.
There are mainly two types of vice, wood working vice and engineer’s vice. In general “Vice” means a Bench Vice. Woodworking vice is integrated with the woodworker’s bench and the engineer’s vice is attached into the top of the bench.
There are wide range of material used for vice making. Wood working vice is generally made if wood, plastic and sometime metal. Whereas the engineer’s vice , also known as metal working vice is made of different types of soft and hard metals depending of the purpose and the operation performed.
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