Drilling V-block
I got to do some unplanned welding today (the good kind). Needed to drill holes into some tie rod studs for cotter pins so I fabbed up a quick v-block to use on the drill press. A short piece of angle iron and some 1/4" flat bar came out of the scrap barrel. I cut the flat bar into two short pieces and tigged them to the back outer sides of the angle.
The legs are pretty short and I did not have a good way to hold them square so heat distortion did its thing. The welds are also 10x longer than necessary for this, but I couldn't pass up a good practice opportunity. I flipped it over and squared the feet up with a quick mill pass.
This is the bottom side after taking about 0.100" off. It sits dead-flat on the table now.
I can't believe I didn't do this long ago. 30min and $0 later, there's a new tool in the drawer. Works great but I think I'll come up with hold-down clamp and add that later.
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