Show us your bench vice(s)

[Turbo]

Remember the Paramo No 5 I bought that had white paint spilt on it?

Finally got around to painting it last week and got it assembled tonight.

All ready for sale.

 

[Tiggy_dorset]

Went into the local tip again today. Picked up this Record No.2 vice (and chair) for the workshop - £5

A bit of surface rust, but in great condition with absolutely no slop....another winner me thinks

 

[Mick B]

Here are 2 of my vices. The little blue one (30mm wide) lives in my tool box and is very handy on the job for filing or cutting very small pieces especially from door locks etc and clamps onto anything up to 20mm thick.

And here are the other 3 vices I have ! (Sorry about that, but I couldn't help myself !)

 

[MattF]

That's a nice Dawn Mick. Quite like the boxy styling on that one.

Went into the local tip again today. Picked up this Record No.2 vice (and chair) for the workshop - £5

A bit of surface rust, but in great condition with absolutely no slop....another winner me thinks
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Make sure to post a photo or two once it's fettled. Not a bad price either.

 

[Maker]

I can't remember if you've seen this vice before but I've only just got it bolted down.

It's a Record No.6 dad rescued from the back of the boiler room at work where it had sat for about ten years. I'd taken it all apart, got all the weasel snot off it and put it back together before bolting it down. When it's about half open it binds up but I think the slide just needs filing, it's quite beaten up but the rest of it is in good nick.

 

[MattF]

Aye, it's usually either burrs on the slide or a slightly bent leadscrew, (don't ask how people manage to bend them. I've never figured that one ), but must likely are burrs on the slide.

 

[Maker]

@Maker What size bolts you got in that?

M12, biggest I could get that would fit through the base.

 

[MattF]

I'm going to have to ask; Why? Were they the only bolts you had to hand?

 

[Turbo]

My record no 6 had 2 slots either side and a hole in the back. I was able to use M16 bolts for it.

 

[MattF]

I had m12s in it, but they had slack either side and the old man made the point that the bolts should be tight fitting, especially as I'm often putting force on stuff clamped in it... 5/8 bolts were stupidly expensive, but I know someone who "fell" over 3 x m16...and just the right length for my needs..

Makes sense now. Not fun having a vice shift on you, if even only slightly, when you're leaning/pulling on something.

 

[Maker]

I did consider machining some sleeves the bolts were a tight fit but I couldn't be bothered. Other ideas I had were to machine my own 5/8" bolts or to screw a piece of 3x1/2" flat to the bottom of my bench and machine some hot rivets, but that sounded too excessive.

 

[MattF]

vice is iron so a sudden shift might have equalled a nasty crack/split in the iron....

It'd have to be a violent movement to achieve that. Unless you were belting something in the vice with a lump hammer or larger, (that's not likely to end well regardless of movement or not, at some point in time), it'd be unlikely the slight movement would damage the vices mounting points.

 

[MattF]

I'm beginning to wonder if I'm the only person who tends to treat my vices like babies.

 

[MattF]

I bought mine as my record 1 was too small for what i had in mind and research suggested and was correct that old records are good value for money and far better than anything made now for anything like sane money...

Definitely far better than the tat Irwin is churning out under the Record brand. Bar Swindens, do we actually have any manufacturers of vices still here these days? Some of the European manufacturers turn out good kit for relatively little money too, but old British gear is hard to beat.

if its lucky it might get a coat of paint at some point...

Go on, you know you want to.

 

[Maker]

Definitely far better than the tat Irwin is churning out under the Record brand. Bar Swindens, do we actually have any manufacturers of vices still here these days?

I can't be bothered to look back through 36 pages to find out the name but the people who made that rear sliding vice are still going, mostly making machine vices but they did have two or three bench vices in their catalogue.

 

[CwazyWabbit]

There's a couple of rear sliders, the German one or the Polish one? Leinen or FPU/Bison-Bial

 

[Maker]

I don't think it was either of them.

EDIT;
I've had a look through and it was a Gressel.

This is my biggest vice 150mm or 6" in old money you won't see many of these in this countryView attachment 60708

try this with a front sliding jaw 10inch easy and it's above the bench not hanging on the frontView attachment 60712

There's a 550 page PDF catalogue on that page, if you scroll right down to page 534, they have the rear sliding bench vice (All the other pages are really boring CNC machine vices).

GRESSEL PS 125-1

£420 for a new one.

 

[CwazyWabbit]

That's pretty similar to the Leinen, imagine this one with it's swivel base removed.

 

[Turbo]

Anyone wanting a huge machine vice?

http://www.gumtree.com/p/clamps-vices/vice-vise-workshop-clamp-garage/1128376107

If I hadn't already got the other big vice I might buy this. Also the car tax (£190) is due this month so I don't have as much to spend on toys.

It's a lot of vice for £65 but you would need a big milling machine to put it on.

 

[Maker]

Anyone wanting a huge machine vice?

I do want it, but I really have no use for it. Unless I buy a huge milling machine to match.