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With the vise base swivelled to the correct angle - and the tool holder tilted - a tapered dovetail can be cut for a fraction of the cost of using a form cutter in a vertical miller.

With the Clapper Head tilted to give clearance on the back stroke a vertical surface is machined without changing the setting used on the top surface.

A jig, held in the standard vise, is given a finishing cut to its top surface.

The bosses on the bare casting for a gas engine cylinder are "cleaned up".

Undercutting the edge of a lathe saddle casting.

Machining an angle plate bolted directly to the top of the table with the power cross feed engaged.

A job nominally too tall to fit on top of the table is clamped to the side instead.

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Atlas, Craftsman, Acorn & Astolite Shaper
The Shaper in Use - page 2 of 3
Home Page   Detailed Components   Shaper in Use: Page 1   Shaper in Use Page 3   
Close-up Pictures

OTHER SHAPERS
Atlas     Adept    Boxford   Cowells    Delta    Drummond   Elliott    Graves  Hendey  Lewis 
Logan   Perfecto  Robblak  South Bend   Milnes