Show us your bench vice(s)

[Asphalt70]

Thats the point you can never have too many
My Son has started buying them cleaning them up and selling at auto jumbles as he is a poor school boy with a fetish for collecting Britool, you can guess the rest he just bought a Record 75 but is keeping it!
So in our tiny workshop we have 4 vices all ready to use! Plus a pile for sale, its an addiction

Could we possible see some pics of the Record 75?

 

[CwazyWabbit]

just had a go, tightening that nut just increases spring tension rather than the positioning of the QR level (which continues to do the same thing whether tighten or loosen that nut).

The flat bar is slipping in its notch on the dog, even ensuring the saddle is tightened down fully. nothing appears to be particularly worn but perhaps the notch has deepened over time allowing excessive rotation.

That 28 is cool - did you find out what that bit bolted onto the back is for?

Show us a picture of the underside of the vice, you may have the doodah upside down.

It's quite common to see part M fitted upside down.

 

[winchman]

Could we possible see some pics of the Record 75?

Yes i will take some tomorrow, remind me if I forget

 

[Phil_D]

Show us a picture of the underside of the vice, you may have the doodah upside down.

It's quite common to see part M fitted upside down.
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That’s exactly what I’ve done

Every days a school day!

 

[bigfellayork]

I just realized it's not a No.28, since No.28 and No.27 (they didn't make No.26) were discontinued LONG before they switched from the bulbous screw end to the cylindrical end on your vice.

Number 25. Nearly forgot his baby brother.

 

[bigfellayork]

This thread makes me feel a little guilty.
Everyone loves their vice. I like mine but he gets the hell beaten out of him on maybe too regular an occasion.

 

[MattF]

That’s exactly what I’ve done

Every days a school day!

Even I've been caught out by that one, and I should know better.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

With all these pics of big record vices, I'm too ashamed to put up a photo of my [relatively] tiny, 'non-record' one.

 

[bigfellayork]

With all these pics of big record vices, I'm too ashamed to put up a photo of my [relatively] tiny, 'non-record' one.

Get a picture up. I’ve seen no discrimination on this site and the wife tells me not to worry size doesn’t matter.

 

[MattF]

With all these pics of big record vices, I'm too ashamed to put up a photo of my [relatively] tiny, 'non-record' one.

It's not the size which matters.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

It's not the size which matters.

Agreed

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Get a picture up. I’ve seen no discrimination on this site and the wife tells me not to worry size doesn’t matter.

If it wasn't so cold, I'd do one of the vice alone but it's Baltic out there. Here's one where you can see the vice lurking on the end of the worktop

 

[SwanseaRoadBikesInstagram]

If it wasn't so cold, I'd do one of the vice alone but it's Baltic out there. Here's one where you can see the vice lurking on the end of the worktop

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slim_boy_fat You're not the guy who posted that vice on singletrackworld forum a few years ago? And people picked the crap out of for having SCREWED the vice to the wood top of his bench rather than through bolt it?

 

[MattF]

slim_boy_fat You're not the guy who posted that vice on singletrackworld forum a few years ago? And people picked the crap out of for having SCREWED the vice to the wood top of his bench rather than through bolt it?

Do they give grief to people who use clamp-on or suction vices too? Can't understand why some folk can't understand that not everyone acts like a gorilla with a vice. They can be, and are, used for finesse work too.

 

[ndg]

The vice I bought new recently (Garant - so decent stuff) acyually came with four very chunky lag screws. I'll probably bolt it down as it will be onto a thinner top with a steel frame rather than a super thick wooden bench, but the manufacturers are obviously okay with screws!

 

[bigfellayork]

slim_boy_fat You're not the guy who posted that vice on singletrackworld forum a few years ago? And people picked the crap out of for having SCREWED the vice to the wood top of his bench rather than through bolt it?

It’s not always possible to through bolt things down.
My 25 is not through bolted. I’m 6ft 4in 17.5 stone. I’ve swung and pulled in all directions using all the power I could and it ain’t moved a mm.
The other valid point as MattF pointed out is that we aren’t all Neanderthals wielding hammers.

 

[Maker]

Nobody complains about benches being screwed rather than bolted together, if screws were so bad then reefing on your bolted down vice would pull your bench apart.

 

[SwanseaRoadBikesInstagram]

I have no problem with screws, it was a few over there. I’ve been thinking I should wind them up by putting some shiny tacks through a piece of thin cardboard or something, just sitting on top of the mouting holes and take a photo, pretend that’s how I use the vice, they’ll have a heart attack!

 

[bigfellayork]

I have no problem with screws, it was a few over there. I’ve been thinking I should wind them up by putting some shiny tacks through a piece of thin cardboard or something, just sitting on top of the mouting holes and take a photo, pretend that’s how I use the vice, they’ll have a heart attack!

I wouldn’t bother. That type of person I have no time for.
Constructive criticism yes.
Sarcasm, bullying NO.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

slim_boy_fat You're not the guy who posted that vice on singletrackworld forum a few years ago? And people picked the crap out of for having SCREWED the vice to the wood top of his bench rather than through bolt it?

Nope, not guilty.

I had to Google 'singletrackworld', that's about bikes.......without engines.......pahhh!