Show us your bench vice(s)

[dannysheff]

And for something different - I seem to accumulate clamp-on vices, even tho I really prefer fixed - this one is big for a clamp-on - 3in jaws and that's a regular No2 Sheffield bench vice it's on (Ward and Payne Anvil).
Casting quality seems top notch and it has those square 'cheeks' characteristic of many good ol' US vises like Athol, Prentiss or Reed and nicely detailed radiuses etc, but no name - any help in the ID?

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Got a scraper out to start work on the stands and was thinking about a far smaller Stanley bench-clamp vise I used to have --- so I scraped the machined top of the slide of this one - and there it was - a very feint but clear stamp "Stanley SW No 766" - looked at one Stanley UK cata - not there, only smaller sizes, but in Uk Stanley Cata No 34 (1925) it's there - the largest in the series - 766 with steel jaws and 746 iron jaws, 776 rotating, not clamp. Each approx 9lbs.

Solved. (and cost under £10 if I remember).

That's what happened when I got the v small Stanley vise - no obvious id until cleaned it up (752, I think).

 

[SteveB58]

Well, get over here I have many. You could help us members who are eyebrow deep in projects.

Found this old bench drill, it will probably end up as a lamp. But at least it's a good reason to be in the workshop rather than decorating.

Steve

 

[MattF]

That's a nice un.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

To this.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Bit of cofffee and time.

 

[Arc Tourist]

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To this.


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You reversed the jaws.

 

[SteveB58]

That's a nice un.

Thanks Matt. On stripping the drill to clean it I found it to be a bit of a marriage of parts. Think it was manufactured by Maninashed from bits and pieces, but obviously it fulfilled a function and was built through necessity. Just have to work out how to best wire and fit a bulb to it.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

You reversed the jaws.

Yes.

Because when i was researching the vice the images i found showed that way.

 

[Arc Tourist]

Yes.

Because when i was researching the vice the images i found showed that way.

Good. ( but you know I just had to find some excuse for a wind up. )

 

[Gragson]

Yes.

Because when i was researching the vice the images i found showed that way.

Appears to be the standard wee thing Hobbymat supplied along with lathe/mill
Jaws on mine are per 1st pic, in fact mine cannot be reversed as there is just one screw hole in the static jaw.

Mine also has a retaining clasp/ring for the crew, yours is either missing or different models..

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Appears to be the standard wee thing Hobbymat supplied along with lathe/mill
Jaws on mine are per 1st pic, in fact mine cannot be reversed as there is just one screw hole in the static jaw.

Mine also has a retaining clasp/ring for the crew, yours is either missing or different models..

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Mine had some stamps on it, the research I did told me the markings were Cival defence markings.

 

[CwazyWabbit]

I think it would be better to have the V groove in the fixed jaw. It would hold a round part more securely. With it in the dynamic jaw downward pressure on the end of a rod held in the vice may allow the rod to move by an amount due to any play in the dynamic jaw to slide mount, with the V in the static this would not happen.
Anyway, it's just my opinion.... what's it they say about opinions and ar$es?

 

[Arc Tourist]

I think it would be better to have the V groove in the fixed jaw. It would hold a round part more securely. With it in the dynamic jaw downward pressure on the end of a rod held in the vice may allow the rod to move by an amount due to any play in the dynamic jaw to slide mount, with the V in the static this would not happen.
Anyway, it's just my opinion.... what's it they say about opinions and ar$es?

The two drill press vices I have were set up this way.

 

[dannysheff]

What is the vice just to the right of the one marked Snap-On ?
The cam-lock next to the little Swinden's looks interesting also.

I believe it's a Warsop missing most of its 'bits' and its swivel.

Warsop Petrol and Tool of Leics UK - I imagined tooling for oil exploration, but apparently they were pretty well known for their jack-hammers and Benjos - with self-contained petrol engines - the vice was 1945 or earlier and sold with a host of attachments not on this one.

tend to think of almost all UK vices as from Yorks, W Mids and London, but a few from Leics - this, also Baugh and Moss, another similar near Leics city and especially Fabrex - who made several types but mostly sold the 2 simple table clamp models 424 and 420 (my first, as a teen) - musta bin a lot of these made in the 60s/70s. Fabrex also made the weirdest vice like a leg vice but thin jaws about 20ins wide (prob for the leather or Fab(rics) trade, which was their main business.)

Yes re the tiny cam-lock - only ever seen pix of much bigger (and they're rare).

 

[ranger08]

a recent project which i pulled out from under the stairs as i was inside 4 days due to heavy rain and flooding and totally bored
almost all paint removed then clear coated with zinc to give sort of a "Rat" finish

 

[ranger08]

And restored two tool boxes with left over hammered grey paint

 

[Arc Tourist]

Was warmer & sunny in my neck of the woods today, so I finished up the Sevo vice. I decided for the time being I wasn't going to paint it. Other than a degreasing and clean up of some minor rust, there was no damage or other issues. I had some brass bar, so turned a temporary handle on the lathe for snugging the movable jaws. Best part of all, the vice tiedown slots work with the T-bolt spacing on my mill.

 

[dannysheff]

now restored and taking its place alongside other curiosities, i call it "the parrot", i think it looks like one

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came across another 'parrot', as you call em, range.

just can't make out that name ?PRICE or -PRILL - poss with other letters before or after - there is a recent Birmingham shop with similar name - but a power tool retailer, so unlikely

Anyone know??

and here's my parrot ROLLO of Scotland

any more parrots??

as I was posting this - arc's latest post appeared - shames me for not giving a good strip and refurb but I have just straightened one tommy bar

 

[Arc Tourist]

HEADS UP !

There is a Dohm Wilson milling / drilling vice for odd shapes on the bay of evil. Item # 234 882 766 970 . Worth a look, and has a reasonable buy it now price.
Usual disclaimer, nothing to do with me; I need a another vice like a hole in the head.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

HEADS UP !

There is a Dohm Wilson milling / drilling vice for odd shapes on the bay of evil. Item # 234 882 766 970 . Worth a look, and has a reasonable buy it now price.
Usual disclaimer, nothing to do with me; I need a another vice like a hole in the head.

Yay,

I immediately went to look at the wonder thing and what do I discover .... I already own exactly this model ...

... it is the first time this happends here ... feels good ....

Carsten

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