Show us your bench vice(s)

[Robotstar5]

So who was the unfortunate maintained engineer who relocated the old vice,,,,, please don't tell us it actually made it to the scrap man...

I did try, but there is no "scrap note" system and I wouldn't risk my job trying to smuggle it past site security so unfortunately it's gone to scrap

 

[Rocketman]

Out with the old, in with the new...

We recently had a new manager who wants to see the maintenance workshops so clean and tidy that it is almost impossible to do any work in them

Our perfectly serviceable vice has been consigned to the scrapheap because it had been painted in the past

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To be replaced at great cost (£600+) with a shiny new one

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What a waste of money from an engineering point of view.

Paint the new one and see what he says.

 

[zzr1200]

so unfortunately it's gone to scrap

Manager wants shooting, no mercy......imho

 

[balmerchris]

He done well getting a new 112 for under a grand.

 

[Asphalt70]

Going from a English made to Chinese Irwin, what a waste

 

[Ruffian]

I'll happily write a scrap note for it!!!

I took this for scrap purpose,
Many thanks, (ker-ching!)

Maybe it's worth a message to the manager that it could be disposed of for a couple of packets of his favorate biscuit.

 

[rosinante]

That was how I aquired my 125 mm Facom forged steel vice , just not shiny and therefore not required, seen prices around 450 quid, !
Chris

 

[Robotstar5]

He done well getting a new 112 for under a grand.

Due to being a large company we do get discount from a lot of suppliers, I've noticed the difference if I look the up price of something on RS as an "outsider" then check the same item when logged onto the company stores ordering system, also probably got to add VAT onto the price I quoted?.

 

[R-D-R]

I acquired a TENG Socket set (large sizes) from a friend of a friend who was a Fitter for a large firm. They were renewing the service van fleet and scrapping socket sets and other tools simply because they didn't fit the new storage rack solution the new vans had. Thousands of pounds of perfectly good kit being thrown out - absolutely mental.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Our perfectly serviceable vice has been consigned to the scrapheap because it had been painted in the past

That's criminal!

 

[Memmeddu]

I hope to buy soon an Ariex ruby vise 150mm
But i have also a project of an homemade bench vise, it's a hard chose

 

[zzr1200]

When I worked for a national access company they decided to closed the small satellite depots and open super depots. They sent 3 small depots equipment to our depot, benches. compressors, presses, welders, you name we ended up with.

Then the top HQ management wanted a depot inspection, our depot manager wanted a clean n tidy depot, so everything went one Friday afternoon/Saturday morning, thousands and thousands of pounds worth of tools and spares.

And never a question was asked as to where it had all gone....

 

[slim_boy_fat]

^ ^ . Don't suppose any followed you home?

 

[zzr1200]

^ ^ . Don't suppose any followed you home?

Noooo never, 2 compressors, 2 steam cleaners, and 3 tons of scrap batteries which was shall we say were, cost effectively relocated....and divvied between the boys in the workshop


I missed out on a 50 ton Hydraulic Workshop Press by 5 mins......
The other presses a 20 ton and 30 ton disappeared before I found out about the top brasses visit.

There was a welding table 8ft x 4ft the top with a 40mm plate, legs and under frame was 6" box. It when out on a 7.5 ton wagon with a hiab it was a tad heavy to say the least.

 

[Rocketman]

Wouldn't surprise me if it was a case of making sure they spent all the budget for the department. Seen it loads of times, if you don't spend it the money doesn't get carried over to the next year and your departments budget if anything gets reduced the following year because you didn't need what you did for that year.

 

[Wallace]

I did try, but there is no "scrap note" system and I wouldn't risk my job trying to smuggle it past site security so unfortunately it's gone to scrap

If I could amend my previous post I would. Manager is a complete and utter sea nut and a moron of inexplicably mind mind boggling ineptitue.

 

[SwanseaRoadBikesInstagram]

I did try, but there is no "scrap note" system and I wouldn't risk my job trying to smuggle it past site security so unfortunately it's gone to scrap

This really grinds my gears What the heck was he thinking? How did this guy even get to ''manager''? Unless that's what wasting resources and disturbing the work environment is called these days? Couldn't you ask if you could have the old one? Or is he the type to make sure you didn't get it out of spite?
As slick as that shiny 112 looks, despite being an Irwin, my day would be spoiled every time I looked at it, knowing how it got there (unless I got the old one, then I would really enjoy BOTH)

So how DOES the ''scrap'' system work? Do they put it in a pile and somebody takes it away?

 

[Wallace]

Had to go in the skip as it was made in England?

 

[Robotstar5]

..So how DOES the ''scrap'' system work? Do they put it in a pile and somebody takes it away?

Being a large company we have our own waste/scrap yard where everything is sorted into various "waste streams" before being disposed of. Everything is weighed in & out and recorded for traceability which is checked at various audits.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Oh, how we all long for the Halcyon days before audits were conceived. [well.....I do ]