Show us your bench vice(s)

[SwanseaRoadBikesInstagram]

I get your point
OT, Britt and danish humor are very similar...ie. Monty python was a hygge hit over here
The art is to make something good with less then a full machine park. Back in the days working as a toolmaker, I would have been able to surface grind it to +/- 0.01 or less, with one arm om the back. Making something usefull today without the fine machines are much more difficult
Btw. my 75 are not a restoration project, its mymonly vice that I use all the time. I have to many projects - to little time and spacere to collect and restore, at Leasy for now.

Imperial are not my native "language", but I believe its 5/16" bsw threaded jaws.

Do you have a home machine shop? I would love to be a machinist, have learned a lot from the internet, reading forums, watching videos. Starting from knowing zero about machining, I now know every part of a lathe, completely comfortable with all the operations, set up, tool geometry etc. I wish I could apprentice at a shop, I would sweep the floors for food just to be around a machine shop and get experience. Sadly nothing around any more.

 

[Asphalt70]

I have a small shop with mostly handtools and alot of creativity
I used to work in a large fine shop with all kind og machines from manuel to cnc for +10y. It was a golden time. Now working as design engineer Im greatfull for all the knowledge I was so fortunate to get. Invaluable, really!
I cant imagine being an engineer with no clue how things are made.

 

[SwanseaRoadBikesInstagram]

I have a small shop with mostly handtools and alot of creativity
I used to work in a large fine shop with all kind og machines from manuel to cnc for +10y. It was a golden time. Now working as design engineer Im greatfull for all the knowledge I was so fortunate to get. Invaluable, really!

Engineers that have machining knowledge are the best

 

[CwazyWabbit]

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This Ajax is one sexy vise! (is this the only place I can comfortably say that without being put into the wired category for the rest of my life?) I REALLY like the design, along the lines of a 112, but a lot more refined and the jaws are really well braced.
(good job viceman!)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ajax-No-...484255&hash=item41d9a83679:g:-G4AAOSwhzRabFOv

Oh, and WTF is this guy thinking?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rolex-10...971195&hash=item41da95ebf1:g:9rcAAOSw-Rhabv64

Do you reckon the Ajax has increased value due to the casting error? The Ajax vices always look like the Fortis ones, I wonder if they were made by Fortis?

Perhaps he thinks the Rolex name makes it worth a lot? A bit like Lamborghini vices.

 

[Asphalt70]

Engineers that have machining knowledge are the best

Ya, machining or smith work (Smithing?). Anything where you need to use BOTH your head and hands and not ONLY your head

 

[SwanseaRoadBikesInstagram]

Do you reckon the Ajax has increased value due to the casting error? The Ajax vices always look like the Fortis ones, I wonder if they were made by Fortis?

Perhaps he thinks the Rolex name makes it worth a lot? A bit like Lamborghini vices.

Or the Bugatti vises, a machine shop in England makes copies I think.

http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/antique-machinery-and-history/bugatti-vice-327026/

 

[CwazyWabbit]

Oops, I probably meant the Bugatti vice didn't I?

The No 3 on the Ajax amused me

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Or the Bugatti vises, a machine shop in England makes copies I think.

http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/antique-machinery-and-history/bugatti-vice-327026/

A thing of beauty - wonder what the thing that looks like a switch on the top is for?

 

[SwanseaRoadBikesInstagram]

I think it's some sort of pin if I remember correctly, kind of looks like a grease nipple but pretty sure it's wasn't. Not my cup of tea to be honest, just Impractical. All the design features seem pointless, which doesn't appeal to me, I'm all for function.
A google search for ''bugatti vise'' brings up lots of photos.

 

[MattF]

A thing of beauty - wonder what the thing that looks like a switch on the top is for?

Oil hole plug, most likely.

 

[SwanseaRoadBikesInstagram]

Oil hole plug, most likely.

This photo shows a Knurled cap. Maybe a threaded plug for oil? I still remember seeing that hole used for something,maybe I was dreaming? I do have vise dreams sometimes, where I have to stop someone swinging a sledge at my best vise but I can't shout or run

http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/bugatti-vice.18223/

 

[Viceman]

This Ajax is one sexy vise! (is this the only place I can comfortably say that without being put into the wired category for the rest of my life?) I REALLY like the design, along the lines of a 112, but a lot more refined and the jaws are really well braced.
(good job viceman!)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ajax-No-...484255&hash=item41d9a83679:g:-G4AAOSwhzRabFOv

Thanks, it is a great vice and in my opinion even better than a Record 112, the price is just to keep the tyre kickers away with silly offers. I wasn't sure about the colour though and am in two minds as to whether I should repaint a different colour?

 

[SwanseaRoadBikesInstagram]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ajax-No-...484255&hash=item41d9a83679:g:-G4AAOSwhzRabFOv

Thanks, it is a great vice and in my opinion even better than a Record 112, the price is just to keep the tyre kickers away with silly offers. I wasn't sure about the colour though and am in two minds as to whether I should repaint a different colour?

Colour’s perfect!

 

[Dieselman 63]

Sorry but there's no way on God's earth I'd part with £195 for that. To put things into context I've bought an entire Colchester Bantam lathe for £250.

There are better bargains to be had... https://goo.gl/Ws2U7e

 

[CwazyWabbit]

I just looked in the Alfred Herbert catalogue, the picture in there is a No 3 and it also has the No3 written backwards. So I guess they all were.

 

[SwanseaRoadBikesInstagram]

Sorry but there's no way on God's earth I'd part with £195 for that. To put things into context I've bought an entire Colchester Bantam lathe for £250.

There are better bargains to be had... https://goo.gl/Ws2U7e

A friend has a Bantam 2000. He had an old Harrison (L4 I think?), quite rusty, and the a corner of the base was snapped off. He lives up a 40% grade (no joke!) and got it delivered in a Toyota van. Whenever I get my own house I will make damn sure it’s somewhere with easy access so I can buy a BIG lathe without worry! At least it’s nice and flat around his house, once you get up the wall.

 

[SwanseaRoadBikesInstagram]

Has anyone ever seen a Record N0.7? I see it in the Buck&Hickman catalogue but never seen one. A couple of old auction ads show up when I search for one but they don't actually show the number. They are really rare for some reason?

 

[CwazyWabbit]

Has anyone ever seen a Record N0.7? I see it in the Buck&Hickman catalogue but never seen one. A couple of old auction ads show up when I search for one but they don't actually show the number. They are really rare for some reason?

Not seen one in person but here's a picture http://board.trekkingthai.com/board/upload/photo/2014-07/c18266b8e70ad0a532577e684c14d416.JPG

 

[Asphalt70]

Not seen one in person but here's a picture http://board.trekkingthai.com/board/upload/photo/2014-07/c18266b8e70ad0a532577e684c14d416.JPG

I was wondering; which Record had heen the most sold, maybe even in the different centories?

 

[dieselsamurai]

This is my main vice I was lucky enough to be given it as my friend needed something bigger!

I have a bit of thing for vices i think at last count I had over 10



This one was lying in someones back garden rusty and unloved they very happy for me to take as he didnt want to lift it into the boot of his car to take to the tip!!