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Normal Carver clamps are also worth picking up whenever you find them tbh.
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I've known for sure I'm going to buy a milling machine for about 8 years
Came very close about 18 months ago, switched lanes and decided to upgrade the lathe first, but life went crazy and I walked away from the workshop for a year.
Back now and back looking at machines. Hopefully by summer I'll have a mill.
Unless a bigger lathe I can't say no to comes my way!
I generally keep an eye out for anything that I see as quality and a good price, but I will need to learn about milling machine accessories as I'm clueless at the moment!
Still, that's a seperate topic entirely!
Came very close about 18 months ago, switched lanes and decided to upgrade the lathe first, but life went crazy and I walked away from the workshop for a year.
Back now and back looking at machines. Hopefully by summer I'll have a mill.
Unless a bigger lathe I can't say no to comes my way!
I generally keep an eye out for anything that I see as quality and a good price, but I will need to learn about milling machine accessories as I'm clueless at the moment!
Still, that's a seperate topic entirely!
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Behold the lambco heavy ten!
Crazy Mexican customer specified the hand cracker tee bar ends . Really not a good idea but customer is always right
Crazy Mexican customer specified the hand cracker tee bar ends . Really not a good idea but customer is always right
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There at last -- "Lambco Heavy Ten" ---- one for the books.
Are those the first two off the line?
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Great for for repetitive work.
I'm retired, so not sure why I bought one; oh yeah, it was green.
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Despite the words about "being sold in large numbers by Willcox" - (if so where are they now?) - I think it's easy to see from the drawing that if you want to clear the nut by lifting, it has to be a long vertical slot - the one in the drawing doesn't look as if it couldn't safely be used at full opening (in fact even the drawn 'ghost line' doesn't clear the nut, so wouldn't work). btw looks like a buttress thread like the 1920/30s patented Rededa bench vice - a successful model produced in modest numbers but that was notable for not having a very wide max opening and being only available in a rather small size.
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Two of ten
A case where creativity interrupts income!
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Jesus Mqz?
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Perhaps this explains why they weren't seen for long? I wonder if they limited the opening somehow so it didn't go as far as interfering with the nut? It's possible that despite being sold in 'large numbers' they were all thrown away because they didn't work as well as promised? A bit like all the gadgets you used to see advertised in the back of newspapers
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If the rear end of the screw os allowed to loft a little too, jist a couple of mm, ot would alow greater jaw opening. Shouldnt effect anything badly as the butress thread mist actively be trying to pull the screw down of the front end wpuld pop up on tightening anyway.
It says it's an "easy fit", depends how easy they mean.
It says it's an "easy fit", depends how easy they mean.
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I’m sure it’s some of the fun for you pressbrake but it’s like looking at an iceberg in national geographic. They are so big I can’t really visualise the proportions! I take it that’s a full size pallet right?
Martin
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If the rear was as you say and it is a well-machined undercut buttress then I guess you could slide the screw and nut over each other (click, click, click - not great practice) when sliding to close down, but this would work against you if trying to slide the vice wider open QR-mode. I think maybe the QR only really worked on the first small section of opening, then it was back to winding the tommy bar (nowt wrong wi thet, lad).
We'll have to find a living example of the big size (advertised jaw width 7in, opens 11in (!?)) and try it out in practice - unless anyone (one of our Mexican colleagues?) wants to ask Lambco Heavy to make one? (£20K?).
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May be hard to track down as unless the seller knows what it is, you couldn't tell from photos. Just looks like a normal vice. And considering ive bought vices with movable jaws the seller didn't even know moved, I'd guess the chances of a seller not knowing what their 'old vice' does is pretty high.
I'll try and lift the handle of every old vice I see from now on!
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Wouldn't be surprised if someone chucked it out because the bar had 'worn loose' ..... that won't be worth anything .... why would someone want a knackered old vice?....
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would it be worth another £X,000 if painted all over metallic blue, like the Woden next to it?
(but seriously, forget the price, that's a heavyweight beaut)
(but seriously, forget the price, that's a heavyweight beaut)
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Did he say how much it sold for?
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No. It was over 2 hours away but listing is over a week old. I asked him how much for the parkinson, he just replied sold.
If it had been under £50, I'd have done the 4.5 hour round trip!
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I'm assuming, though I may be wrong, that it's a scrap man selling what he things is too good to melt. They are probably just how he got then.
Hope the new owner of the parkinson knows what he has!
