Not accurate, I wish the quality was better

This is the right tool

tanks

So after reading all the reviews and sitting on the fence for a while about weather I should get because of the negative reviews! I went ahead and rolled the dice! lol. Jackpot I got maybe one of the good ones!! I’m a jack of all trades and have my own woodworking shop and work on all my machines. I’m not a machinist by trade but do know how to do pretty much everything well. After unboxing yes you have to dial everything in as mentioned in a lot of the reviews!! That said to be fair for the price I’m giving it 5 stars! You get what you pay for. I put 30 minutes in to it and it’s pretty true. Not perfect or spot on but pretty dam good!!! If you are a machinist and need one you’re probably not going to want this or I would not be getting you to do work for me. Lol So all you beginners this is worth every penny!!!

another cheap vice I got off amazon came frozen together and had to be disassembled, cleaned and still barely works. pain in the ass. I think I got lucky with this one, works smooth like butter fresh out of the box.

I wasted too much time reading reviews on these budget cross slides and finally landed on this one. I didn't want to wait over a week for a $60 one to ship to me (and potential 3rd party return issues) and a $150 one was not in the budget for my needs, so this one seemed like the best of the worst according to the reviews (lol).Based on the reviews, I was prepared to completely disassemble to file & lube to make it run smooth but upon receiving I was pleasantly surprised and thought I would give it a go without doing all that. Once bolted to my drill press, I sprayed the contact points and threads with lube & tightened the slide shims a bit and it was good to go and worked smooth enough for my needs to complete an 80% lower. It did a good job.My only gripe is there is about a 1/8th of a turn slack in the crank which doesn't make it overly precise and has some take-up before it turns the other direction. *Think of it like a little bit of slop/play in a car's steering wheel. However, this is to be expected from a budget Chinese made vise.I have a label maker that I plan to label the turn directions (left-right, forward-back). I also purchased a set of orange plastic vise jaws to protect projects. Overall, a 4.5 star product; I am pleased.

As others have mentioned, this vice needs some work to get it to where it should have been coming out of the factory. The finish on the sliding rails is rough, with lots of metal shavings having been left loose and then powder coated over. Had to spend an hour filing all the contact surfaces on the rail, but once that was done and I greased the thing up, it works like a charm. If you are willing to put some effort into it, for this kind of money, it’s a good buy.

OK first I was scared to death after reading many of the reviews. But I received mine today so with great trepidation I opened the box. WOW it worked just fine, no issues. Opening and closing of vice jaws no issues. Movement in X and Y direction was fine. The lands or flat surface the slides move on were flat and pretty smooth. On the downside there was paint on the lands and grit on the threaded rods for moving the base for and aft but nothing a wire brush couldn't cure. And even the paint on the lands presented no real problem. All in all I am well pleased.

Yes, several other lukewarm reviews are fairly spot-on. The very first thing I did to this vise upon receipt was to try it out, and confirm that it was as clunky as other reviews said. (Very much so. It was almost unusably rough, and the movements were difficult--nearly impossible---to turn without backing off the jib screws, and even loosening the screws near the crank) I then disassembled it to try to improve! I pulled every main piece apart. The first thing I noticed was that the ways were very rough, as well as being warped from bad castings, and **several drill holes** were SEVERELY misaligned. This one looked like it was drilled by hand, folks. I proceeded to file flat and gently smooth the ways (dovetails first, then beds--25 min) and took the jibs to a flat grinding stone to flatten and smooth (3 min) . The jibs have a rough, non-centered hole drilled in one end to grab one of the adjustment screws, so it won't slide out of the dovetail. On the largest (we'll call X) axis--the base piece, the Acme screw passes through a block that pins to the movement above it by a 1/2" (appx) cast pin. This block is not square--not a 90 on it-- and the pin had a nasty casting leftover artifact on the end. The pin was round--it'd been ground or lathed clean enough to fit. The whole block, however--did NOT line up with the bore of the Acme screw from one end of the main base casting! This made the action very rough, obviously. I saw three courses of action. 1) fabricate a new block out of delrin, etc. Could not do because I can't tap Acme with my existing tools. 2) Drill a new hole for the pin inline with the Acme screw. It may mess up the overall throw of the way, but I may yet use this option. 3) Leave the screws holding the crank/Acme to the base casting REALLY loose. YEP! It worked. Next, the Y-axis. One of the jibs would not lie flat. I needed an additional 5-minutes of file work to fix what I hadn't really done right earlier. Once completed, the jib would sit in the dovetail with the screw slightly exposed to hold. The drillings that hold the Acme for the Y-axis were also misaligned, but not nearly so badly as the holes on the X. That said, the drillings that held the Acme-to-casting plate were far enough off that if both used, the crank wouldn't turn. So, I could only install one. I could redrill/tap in another spot on the plate, but I have a feeling that it will be fine. The vise itself was actually fine. It's a chrome plated screw, and moved very cleanly. Once I had greased and re-assembled the vise, movement was better, if not "precise." The adjustment screws were set, and the wing-nutted screws provided solid lockup, so there was no worry of wiggle. There are metered markings on the X/Y crank and plate, but using a micrometer to show how much movement each measured didn't prove insightful--they gave no meaningful meter in either metric or english.

Pros:- This heavy solid metal device seems very sturdy and well made. I have no worries about its durability.- The mounting slots looked like they might let the bolts slip, but turned out to work great once I had it set up.- The adjusting cranks and compression screws allow for reasonably precise operation over a surprisingly wide range of motion.Cons:- The piece is a little bit tall, be sure you have enough room beneath your drill press before you buy it.- The lower crank is somewhat sticky. Operating it quickly requires so much force that I wind up lifting and shaking the entire drill press (and the workbench it's attached to) if I don't use a second hand to hold it steady. (Still gets the job done though, this is only a minor annoyance)- There were sizable scrap metal chips stuck in the grease in all the mechanisms. It may jam and/or damage itself if you don't clean it before the first time you use it. (Not a problem so long as you notice before you try to use it)Overall a very nice piece of hardware for the price. I am very satisfied with how well it works.