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Your cart is empty.Wilton's cross-slide drill press vises allow repeat drills or taps in a workpiece by sliding along two axs. This vise boasts hardened v-grooved jaws for clamping round objects vertically and horizontally. Backed by Wilton's lifetime warranty.
Sophia
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2025
I bought this to use with my bench top drill press. I am very surprised at the quality of this vice. Highly recommend.
Marc Marcus
Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2024
Needed some basic adjustments upon arrival but it’s a nice vise, particularly for the price. Will probably pull out apart, smooth out the ways, oil and reassemble. Easy to align. The weight is heavy enough and there are five hold-down spots.
Jerry
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2023
Appears way to cheap for a product with a $259 list price, paid $107.49 on black Friday sale, not sure if it was even worth that, spent hours working on improving it's performance to a maybe 3 star item. Having invested so much time on it, not sure if I will return it or not.A bit disappointing!Update:The cranking handles finally excepted oil and are working way better, I was able to re-engineer the V-Track rail system so it no longer constantly jambs up, and the clamping shim plate no longer slides out as well, I can now tighten them to very close tolerances and have very little play, and they no longer ever jamb up, the cross slide drill press vise tool is now usable and worth keeping.More updates:Decided it was still a bit to sloppy and spent a couple more hours filling out one of the uneven v-groves and added a copper shim washer to the other axis, finally some accuracy, product I'm drilling into isn't moving around anymore,I would have been happy to pay another $100 or maybe even $200 more to not have had to go thorough all that, unfortunately I don't even see a good option at that price point,
kirk_grem
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2023
I have owned this vise for about a year now. The cross slide works ok, I guess, although the ways are far from flat, making the travel across each direction alternately too loose and then too tight. I tried every adjustment. Oh, and the adjustments are almost impossible to reach in some cases. But my main complaint is the opening of the jaws. The jaw runs on 3 slides that are so poor that the jaw gets jammed. And if you are not really careful, the single hex set screw holding the jaw to the acme screw end, just cuts itself a way out. Less trouble with closing the jaw, but you still have to open it to get your work out. Oh, and the "verniers" on the x and y axes are useless, because the acme screws have so much slack in their nuts, that if you change directions you completely lose your zero point. Extremely poor purchase for me.
Dave Gallays
Reviewed in Canada on December 11, 2023
Was exactly what I wanted. Fast delivery and service. Very sturdy product. I new addition to my little shop. Thank you very much. Looking forward to more of your products come my way or test or whatever I do both.
Jim E.
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2020
I spent a lot of time reviewing cross slide vises and reading a lot of reviews. They all said the vise needed to be disassembled and cleaned. Several talked about quality control issues. Poor castings, bent or missing parts and machining marks left on the ways. NONE of the reviewers on this vise, mentioned quality control issues. That along with the brand name led me to purchase this vise. When I received the vise I looked the shipping box over closely. I found no damage. I opened the container and removed the vise looking for any imperfections. I found NO Casting Imperfections. I disassembled and cleaned the vise reassembled with small amounts of grease. It did take a few minutes to adjust the tension on the ways/tables. This I believe is a personal thing. I have used the vise and is works very smoothly and made drilling duplicate holes in 1/4" steel very easy. Another quality product by WILTON and AMAZON.
Tradesman
Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2019
First off, I do appreciate this product for it's quality at the given price point. There were a few issues I had right away before ever using it. If you are willing to spend some time working out the kinks and refining this vise, it's pretty good. First I didn't approve of the deep tooling marks on the sliding surfaces. They took some stone work and UHMWPE tape to slick them up and tighten the gib on the base and upper base for smooth and tight operation. One lead screw bracket shattered when trying to lubricate the assembly, however this was my own fault. After building a new one and accepting the wobble and approximate machining of the lead screws, I could not keep the handle from coming off the upper base adjustment. Expanding the ring inside the handle fixed this, and now the vise operates smoothly and remains solid.
Jeff Jacobs
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2017
I'm giving this 5 stars because it's far better than I expected. It had some manufacturing schmoo in the ways/rails. I disassembled mine (more out of interest than anything else), which allowed me to easily clean it up with some WD-40. I lubed it with dry lube to hopefully avoid shavings building up and getting trapped like it might with a heavy grease.I had a little bit of slop in one of the lead screws -- I just added a nylon washer behind the handle on that screw and it took care of the problem. I cut wood, so I don't place a lot of load on it. Overall, the thing is accurate enough. The problem with this tool isn't the vise, it's that drill presses just aren't stout enough to handle machining. They will vibrate/chatter a lot and a self-holding tapered chuck isn't the right setup for applying horizontal forces. I wear a full face shield and squint extra hard as a mitigation strategy...
Gary
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2017
I thought I would save some money and bought the slightly larger HFT cross slide vise. That was terrible. I returned it and bought this Wilton.For one, this 4-inch size is reasonable for your typical garage size drill press. A larger size makes it unreasonable if you have anything smaller than an 18-inch table.The quality of the Wilton is so much better than any import vise. The knob design, finish, smoothness, and everything is better.You will need to adjust the gibs until this slides nicely with no play. It arrived a bit tight for me (too tight to rotate the handle with ease). After spraying some lithium grease on the dovetails and loosening up the gib screws a bit, it's like a dream. Smooth as butter.
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