Show us your bench vice(s)

[brewdexta]

I just bought a weird vice off of flea bay. I shall post pictures when it arrives.

 

[zx9]

I just bought a weird vice off of flea bay. I shall post pictures when it arrives.

"The antici pation....."

 

[brewdexta]

Maybe I shall just post a picture of a bit of it each week

 

[CRB]

Maybe I shall just post a picture of a bit of it each week

Tease.

 

[MattF]

out of interest matt and being as you are a vice aficionado where would one get some new pins? I have replaced the missing one with a split pin at the mo but would like a proper pin.

Personally, I'd just leave the split pin in there. That'll do the job fine. If you want something more original, just a piece of suitable diameter rod, cut the shank off a knacked drill bit, use part of an old round nail cut to size, roll pin etc. You can buy pins from various places, (places like Tracy tools probably do them), but in all honesty, they'll not do any better a job than the split pin is already doing. The beauty of split pins is that they're easy to hook/pull out if you ever need to remove it, and cost but a few pence to replace if ever needs be.

I just bought a weird vice off of flea bay. I shall post pictures when it arrives.

Was this a "that looks cute/weird, I'm having that" moment? If so, that's how the collecting starts. Any taster hints as to type?

"The antici pation....."

Sarcastic git.

 

[mr migwire]

cheers matt

 

[brewdexta]

Was this a "that looks cute/weird, I'm having that" moment? If so, that's how the collecting starts. Any taster hints as to type?

It's more of an engineers vice, not something to hold a victim of a BFH. I've never seen one like it and instantly thought I could use it. However, once I show a picture I'm sure I'll find they are as common as piercings at a Goth gathering

 

[MattF]

Engineer as in bench or machine mounted?

However, once I show a picture I'm sure I'll find they are as common as piercings at a Goth gathering

I'm curious about how many will know, (and more specifically how they know), how common Goth piercings are now.

 

[brewdexta]

Engineer as in bench or machine mounted?

Definitely a bench vice Matt. Here's little piece of it

I thought this might tickle your fancy, not far from Roofman either

 

[Maker]

That isn't the one with the split rear jaw is it?


Edit: I just found the one I'm talking about and it's still for sale so it can't be that.

 

[roofman]

Definitely a bench vice Matt. Here's little piece of it

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I thought this might tickle your fancy, not far from Roofman either

Widnes is like another world and just as far too...having said that i do a lot of work around the bridge area but like to check my tools as i leave

 

[brewdexta]

Here's another piece

 

[MattF]

Is that a Dohm perchance?

 

[MattF]

I thought this might tickle your fancy, not far from Roofman either

I'm really trying to resist getting one of those types. It'd drive me to distraction trying to mount one with all those bolts through the base. There was one at Hebden Bridge which still hasn't sold yet. That one truly does have me tempted to contact the seller.

 

[brewdexta]

Is that a Dohm perchance?

You do know your vices!!

What where they used for?

This is the description

"Unusual vice with no makers mark but has a sticker with Dohm 167 Victoria Street London, it weighs 8kg has a 7" base is 10" long and 5" high with 4 bolt holes.Very sturdy with 2 x 3/4" dia. support rods, the moving vice jaw is 3" long and 1" deep with a strong gripping surface and a curved central vee groove. It has a brass protective plate that can be swung into place across the jaw to get a softer clamping action. The fixed half of the vice has a 6 position rotary action and has 1 fixed position facing the moving jaw, the other 5 contoured positions are designed to allow vertical clamping of tubular materials from 1/2" to 1 1/4" diameter , the one fixed position has a centralised horizontal and vertical vee slot and has a smooth clamping face"

and a few pics

 

[brewdexta]

I have a tracking number and the vice is on its way, interestingly it seems to be just about the same age as me give or take a month if I have the later one.

Posted in 6th May 1962 edition of Commercial Motor

"AN improved version of their turret jaw vice has been introduced by Dohm, Ltd., 167 Victoria Street, London, S.W.1. The new model—the Dohm-CoIt —has one rotatable jaw with four sizes of half-round and two vee slots, one vertical, one horizontal, to facilitate the holding of angles, tubes and irregularly shaped bars. Such things as long tubes can be held in the horizontal groove which prevents "end droop" as well as "riding-up" when the vice is tightened.

Retail price of the Dohm-Colt is £4 19s. 6d. The jaw width is 3.25 in. and maximum jaw opening is 4.375 in. The vice weighs 25 lb."

Interestingly £4 19s 6d in 1962 is about £96 in today's money.

I found some more pictures from I think the US and some more here from NZ so there's at least three knocking about evidently this guy thought the Dohm company consisted of two engineers and a secretary however this link to the 1957 British Industries fair mentions the Dohm group of companies several times so could be bigger if they are one and the same unless the subsidiary is two blokes and a secretary.

Just found that a version was around in 1959 in the Commercial motor mag

"Gripping Tubes having a pivoted turret jaw containing a series of vertical half-round and V-slots, the Dohm-Wilson turret jaw vice has been designed to facilitate holding angles, tubes and bars. Produced by Dohm, Ltd., 167 Victoria Street, London, S.W.1, the vice is made of malleable cast steel with a tensile strength of 20 tons per sq. in. Horizontal workpieces, for example tubes, are held in a long V-groove across the face of the jaw without end droop, and irregularly shaped work can be 'securely held without clamps or jigs as the jaw provides' multi-point contact."

 

[CRB]

I have a tracking number and the vice is on its way, interestingly it seems to be just about the same age as me give or take a month if I have the later one.

Posted in 6th May 1962 edition of Commercial Motor

"AN improved version of their turret jaw vice has been introduced by Dohm, Ltd., 167 Victoria Street, London, S.W.1. The new model—the Dohm-CoIt —has one rotatable jaw with four sizes of half-round and two vee slots, one vertical, one horizontal, to facilitate the holding of angles, tubes and irregularly shaped bars. Such things as long tubes can be held in the horizontal groove which prevents "end droop" as well as "riding-up" when the vice is tightened.

Retail price of the Dohm-Colt is £4 19s. 6d. The jaw width is 3.25 in. and maximum jaw opening is 4.375 in. The vice weighs 25 lb."

Interestingly £4 19s 6d in 1962 is about £96 in today's money.

I found some more pictures from I think the US and some more here from NZ so there's at least three knocking about evidently this guy thought the Dohm company consisted of two engineers and a secretary however this link to the 1957 British Industries fair mentions the Dohm group of companies several times so could be bigger if they are one and the same unless the subsidiary is two blokes and a secretary.

Just found that a version was around in 1959 in the Commercial motor mag

"Gripping Tubes having a pivoted turret jaw containing a series of vertical half-round and V-slots, the Dohm-Wilson turret jaw vice has been designed to facilitate holding angles, tubes and bars. Produced by Dohm, Ltd., 167 Victoria Street, London, S.W.1, the vice is made of malleable cast steel with a tensile strength of 20 tons per sq. in. Horizontal workpieces, for example tubes, are held in a long V-groove across the face of the jaw without end droop, and irregularly shaped work can be 'securely held without clamps or jigs as the jaw provides' multi-point contact."

Haway then June62 for me.

 

[Gareth0123]

I was born on the 8th of May 1962

 

[brewdexta]

1962 must have been a good vintage

 

[Turbo]

That Dohm is very unusual and cool piece of kit.