Tilting Angle Vice - 100mm

Great addition to the workshop, solid and smooth, great for the drill press.

This is a cracking bit of kit making angular drilling a little bit easier, though still not without it's issues for the Unaware. The only design change I would recommend is that the pin be replaced by a dogged **** to allow locking at angles other than the "usual" 15, 22.5, 30 & 45 degrees. Compound angles on construction assemblies quickly depart from all "norms". I may well modify mine to permit that

This is a great addition to my bench drill that does not have an angle adjustment on its base. Easy to read numbers, solid casting and heavy construction which allows a stable drilling platform. For the price I am very happy and it does what it says.

Much more substantial and weighty than apparent from the photos. One thing not noted in the description or the photos is a lever to lock the vice at any angle. Recommended.

I've just purchased this vice and feel happy in saying that it is excellent value for money. Its 8kg mass fits perfectly on my pillar drill table. Its tilting mechanism glides smoothly and locks well. Its 90 degree scale could be made clearer to see, but it's not that bad. Its 100mm wide x 40mm deep jaws are fixed in place by Allen cap screws from the back, which pleasingly makes them removable, but I do however see that one of those screws will need to ground shorter because it sticks through into the material holding space, that's a minor detail though. A tiny piece of the cast body will need to be filed away to allow the tilt mechanism to sit at a perfect zero degrees horizontally, but again, an extremely minor thing to take care of. And the fact that its mass is great enough that it doesn't need to be bolted down for most small drilling jobs, is a good thing too.OK, so it's not constructed to the same tolerances as an engineering vice, but it's not that far away, I'm impressed, and, I'll go as far as to say it could be used for many everyday machining jobs if fixed down properly.Finally, what I find cute is that the locking pin for locating the index holes, has obviously been ground by hand by some worker as they have stood in front of a grinding wheel in a far away machine shop. I view this as a bit of personalisation and a great little feature. All things considered, I'll give this deal by Rutlands a 10 out of 10.