Show us your bench vice(s)

[dannysheff]

I couldn’t be doing with all those chips in my Fanta…

That's exactly how Irn Bru was invented -- some machinist left his Tizer next to the cutter - chips dissolved, cutting oil for flavour, bit of CO2 and Bob's yr uncle. Took Glaswegians to buy it in bulk; -- next accident - drops a Mars bar into the hot oil in a quench tank --- and so it goes - chance is the mother of invention - result, the perfect meal after 6 pints of heavy - deep-fried Mars-bar washed down with Irn Bru, what a way to end a nite on the town.

Especially if you're just about to sell a 10" wide jaw monster Pressbrake Lambco bench vice.

Or your Parky is not only 'Perfect' but Parkinson's and Vice.

Or you have a fine collection of Thors.

 

[FR518]

Little & Large

 

[StevieO]

Re the Parkinsons vise model above -- we have previously discussed original colour, and I know that some/many were a bright postbox red, and there were some in the light grey to dark green range, but this is definitely a kind of red/maroon and almost certainly the original colour of this model as it has mostly been kept behind glass. It seems to show that the maroon red examples are not just a weathered bright red, but an original shade - rather fine, I'd say.

It also shows the painted and bright metal areas of a Parky. Just about what I'd say is best - agree?

Seems like Parkinson varied colours over time. The Paragon match of "Dark Crimson" is one option - see my link/post from Feb'22 below.
https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/show-us-your-bench-vice-s.52872/post-2008494

Love the Victorian's and their Vice/Vise change - ANON: "one wouldn't want to besmirch our products with the 'Ladies of horizontal refreshment' label" !

Loved this one... and patented....

 

[dannysheff]

Seems like Parkinson varied colours over time. The Paragon match of "Dark Crimson" is one option - see my link/post from Feb'22 below.
https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/show-us-your-bench-vice-s.52872/post-2008494

Love the Victorian's and their Vice/Vise change - ANON: "one wouldn't want to besmirch our products with the 'Ladies of horizontal refreshment' label" !

Loved this one... and patented....
View attachment 352915

OMG as they say, I'm a broadminded child of the 60s, but wouldn't let him anywhere near my grandaughters' feet, patented screen or no, - I think he's actually salivating.

What's horizontal refreshment? - are you talking about Irn Bru again? - thought we'd finished with that. (Oh and I did mean to say all due respect to Glasgow -- one of my favourite cities.)

Now - back to vices/vises of the bench type. I like those (Swedish?) multi-section types from FR and Cwazy, but I'm trying to see the application that needed this.

 

[CwazyWabbit]

Little & Large View attachment 352892

Snap!

 

[FR518]

Snap!
View attachment 352955

the bigger one looks abit bigger than mine and extra mount tabs

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Stanley 702 Alloy Vice.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

What's horizontal refreshment?

Think about it [might also be called 'horizontal exhaustion' ]

 

[dannysheff]

Think about it [might also be called 'horizontal exhaustion' ]

thanks - I did realise, was just trying to play the innocent (and keep Irn Bru in the frame).
25.4 - careful, if you use some of the vernacular on this thread your fine use of the English language will 'go to pot' (a phrase from before the days of modern use of cannabis - don't know where it comes from).

 

[magnet]

Picked this up off an old lad around the doors. It came out of a railway workshop. It has no name or markings. Any info appreciated

 

[FR518]

All clean

 

[CwazyWabbit]

Damn, that's clean!

 

[25.4_mechanic]

25.4 - careful, if you use some of the vernacular on this thread your fine use of the English language will 'go to pot' (a phrase from before the days of modern use of cannabis - don't know where it comes from).

Pot/Pott in your usage comes from the old Plattdeutsch (Low German), the dialect of the peasants in which I grew up.

There, as still today in Dutch, pot(t) stands for pot, bowl and - after these were invented - also for toilet.

The phrase "Ick mutt nu op'n pot" means "Now I have to go to the toilet" - today equally understandable in southern Denmark, northern Germany and the Netherlands.

So if something goes into the pot, it falls into the chamber pot, which is under the bed, so the "down the tube" before there was a sewer system.

Thanks for your concern, but I'm working my english up rather than down here


Carsten

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[MattF]

but I'm working my english up rather than down here

You hope.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

You hope.

Yes, I hope


Carsten

 

[dannysheff]

Pot/Pott in your usage comes from the old Plattdeutsch (Low German), the dialect of the peasants in which I grew up.

There, as still today in Dutch, pot(t) stands for pot, bowl and - after these were invented - also for toilet.

The phrase "Ick mutt nu op'n pot" means "Now I have to go to the toilet" - today equally understandable in southern Denmark, northern Germany and the Netherlands.

So if something goes into the pot, it falls into the chamber pot, which is under the bed, so the "down the tube" before there was a sewer system.

Thanks for your concern, but I'm working my english up rather than down here


Carsten

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Great - thanks for that - and the chamber pot is/was called the po' in much of England, especially the north (pronounced quite like the River Po)

Excuse me, ick mutt nu op'n pot, - --- ciao,ciao, bis bald.

 

[dannysheff]

Picked this up off an old lad around the doors. It came out of a railway workshop. It has no name or markings. Any info appreciatedView attachment 353007View attachment 353008

View attachment 353003 View attachment 353004

Nice one Cyril. Looks to me like an early Parkinson's non-quick-release - the version before the 'Improved Handy' - but it was copied by other makers. maybe size No2.

and FR - now that's what I call a vice

sent from my Apple op'n pot device

 

[magnet]

Nice one Cyril. Looks to me like an early Parkinson's non-quick-release - the version before the 'Improved Handy' - but it was copied by other makers. maybe size No2.

and FR - now that's what I call a vice

sent from my Apple op'n pot device

Wow! thanks mate

 

[dannysheff]

You hope.

Wow! thanks mate

and I like the stylish stand, cut from a large I-beam - a good vice stand (even shop-made) is rarer than a good vice

 

[magnet]

Aye its a lump of rsj out of Dorman Long on Teeside.I keep it because it has Dorman embossed on the vertical web.Its a bit of history.