making vise clamps on the milling machine

Step 6 Slotting setup

For the slotting, I set it up like this.

It's nice to have the workpiece roughly centered in the jaws, because it gives even clamping pressure, not so much twisting force on the movable jaw.

I want the slot in the middle of the clamp, so I measured the final, actual width of the clamp, located the edge, and positioned the spindle at the X axis center of the clamp.

Lock the X gibs here, we'll just be moving in Y and Z for a while.