Show us your bench vice(s)

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

My Parkinson Vice.

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.Just need to time to restore it

 

[Dieselman 63]

My Parkinson Vice.

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.Just need to time to restore it

Looks the same as mine, square rails, buttress thread, quick release. The screws are seized on mine so I gave up trying and put it back on the shelf. I've got enough to be doing with the grinder and the Fobco to keep me busy over Christmas, and hell of hells... ...a project I said I would do 'before Christmas' has been uncovered and questions are being asked as to why it's not ready - HELP!

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

@Dieselkid 63
Try this.
60% old engine oil.
20% diesel.
20% paraffin.

Mix and soak the vice in a sealed container. If no container soak wrap in rags. Soak the rags. Seal in a plastic bag.

Leave until time allows.

 

[Viceman]

It varied in it's redness over the years, also the colour seems to darken with age. You may find a bit of the original colour hiding in yours when you take it apart.

This one is still in it's original colour if that helps you.

Thanks, I'll work to that shade and also the decal is nice, I will try and replicate something similar.

 

[Dieselman 63]

Thanks, I'll work to that shade and also the decal is nice, I will try and replicate something similar.

@dazza can make repro labels can't you?

 

[dazza]

@dazza can make repro labels can't you?

Not any more i sold the roland printer as it hardly got used.

 

[Viceman]

I can do decals with my printer and decal paper it just takes a lot of time messing about getting the design done with Paint on my computer. I did the ones for the Record 23 I posted pictures of earlier. Not perfect but they soon rub off anyway when the vice is used!!

 

[Phil_D]

That Woden mechanism is very similar to the mechanism in my Wilson Riley bench vice, Massey also produced vices with the same mechanism.

I think I have around 70 vices in total, but if I'm honest I stopped counting a while back.

If you happen to have a surplus record 23 or 24 kicking about I’d be more than happy to get it out from under your feet

 

[winchman]

Parkinson was pretty much the designer of what we commonly accept as standard vice design nowadays.

I have an old Parkinson and from memory I think it was dated at 1880! Just looks like the newer stuff

 

[Robbie260]

Ok guys here is my new Christmas present to myself. A Wilton all terrain vice bought of Ebay and imported from America.

 

[Dieselman 63]

Looks like it belongs in a science lab or maybe an F1 race tech diagnostics shop... far too futuristic for me!

 

[Robbie260]

Looks like it belongs in a science lab or maybe an F1 race tech diagnostics shop... far too futuristic for me!

Limited space unfortunately, want a big proper vice but don’t have the space for one so this one can be easily packed away.

 

[grim_d]

Clever vice, designed to go into a trailer hitch mount.

A bit of box bolted to the underside of your bench means a nice removable solution.

 

[Ry k]

Hi folks
I thought this made as good a first post as any. And i get to show off my vices
My personal favourites are the imp and the 74 although the 112 has pressed a few bearings in its time. And my welding is normally better than what is shown on the cheap chinese vice (honest).

Ps sorry for the photos being messed up

 

[Dieselman 63]

Anyone would struggle to make a good job of welding cast iron, especially that aero chocolate from China

 

[Ry k]

Considering i just put the welder as high as she would go and went at it with 6010 i was quite happy with the result

 

[Charliefarlie]

My bench was built from scrap timber and the very large Record vice was given me for free by a mate. It’s one huge beastie and is quite old ...

 

[winchman]

Welcome R YK.
I too like the imp for years I had no spare money and managed with an Imp bought from a car boot for a couple of quid

 

[SwanseaRoadBikesInstagram]

the very large Record vice was given me for free by a mate. It’s one huge beastie and is quite old ...

Looking at your vice it appears to be post 70's. They changed the end of the screw from bulbous to cylindrical around 1970. The bulbous end can be found at the latest in the 1968 B&H catalogue and the cylindrical end at the earliest in the 1971 version (exception being the ''Engineers' Unbreakable Heavy Duty Vices'' i,e No.110 - 114).

Courtesy of CwazyWabbit, lots of scanned vice pages: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9iwuyy1vzrwvszs/AAApmsWFvTmKRWUj53V7eiwla?dl=0

Btw, what number is yours? Looks like a No.25.

 

[Charliefarlie]

Looking at your vice it appears to be post 70's. They changed the end of the screw from bulbous to cylindrical around 1970. The bulbous end can be found at the latest in the 1968 B&H catalogue and the cylindrical end at the earliest in the 1971 version (exception being the ''Engineers' Unbreakable Heavy Duty Vices'' i,e No.110 - 114).

Courtesy of CwazyWabbit, lots of scanned vice pages: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9iwuyy1vzrwvszs/AAApmsWFvTmKRWUj53V7eiwla?dl=0

Btw, what number is yours? Looks like a No.25.

That’s my firework :::::: on then ......