I’m a complete noob here and am on a mission to ask what seems like the dumbest possible question… Please forgive my complete ignorance. I’ve followed the first few tutorials/how-tos for the Nomad 883 with great success and am now facing a very silly problem: I can’t figure out how to move the jaws of my low profile vise. I’ve taken out the vertical set screws but the silver-colored jaw on the far left really won’t budge. It seems like it’s supposed to, right? I want to open it up more for a larger piece. Obviously I can change the positioning of the workholding piece in between the outer two jaws by changing how far in/out the horizontal screw on the left is threaded but I cannot for the life of me (even after a long time of googling and (workholding) forum-reading) figure out how to move the outer jaws. Thanks in advance for your help!
Thanks for responding. Yep, I understand how it’s supposed to work but the left-most part is not sliding. I took the two blue SHCSs out completely in order to try to move it but it won’t budge.
Clever—that worked. I was able to push out the left-most piece slowly and then clean it on all sides and the bottom bracket of the vise. After everything was pretty clean, it started sliding much more easily. I couldn’t even move it with a mallet earlier! I was surprised it was so dirty as I’ve only used it on the one wrench part from the first tutorial but this seems to have solved the issue. Thanks!