I have an older 9X16 Wilton Band Saw/Cut Off saw for metal. The saw portion works great, but the vice that holds the metal in place is slipping away from the stock. The jaws seem to tighten down on the stock, then when I am cutting, they release and this makes a mess of the job.
I dropped the vice down off the screw shaft and removed the acme nut from under the table. This acme nut is what grabs the acme screw shaft when the vice is screwed against the stock. The nut rotates a few degrees on the shaft and has a button that engages the acme nut against the threads on the acme screw shaft. This nut is what keeps slipping and allowing the vice jaws to release tension against the stock. I cleaned all the parts and reinstalled the assembly. It still slips.
The manufacture no longer has any replacement parts for this acme nut and the only source for that nut in the past was Grangers, and they do not have the nut anymore either.
Do you know what my problem is?
Do you have any suggestions of how to work around this problem.
Thanks in advance,
Dean
I dropped the vice down off the screw shaft and removed the acme nut from under the table. This acme nut is what grabs the acme screw shaft when the vice is screwed against the stock. The nut rotates a few degrees on the shaft and has a button that engages the acme nut against the threads on the acme screw shaft. This nut is what keeps slipping and allowing the vice jaws to release tension against the stock. I cleaned all the parts and reinstalled the assembly. It still slips.
The manufacture no longer has any replacement parts for this acme nut and the only source for that nut in the past was Grangers, and they do not have the nut anymore either.
Do you know what my problem is?
Do you have any suggestions of how to work around this problem.
Thanks in advance,
Dean
