CwazyWabbit
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The handle on mine has also been beaten flat.
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It would appear as though a swivel base would be missing, or is there a threaded hole in the base of the vice for attaching the rod, washer, and wingnut shown in your previous post ?
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threaded hole in base in mine - I don't think anything missing from ranger's but they might work best with some sort of plate fitted to bench top
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Interesting, so two options for attaching to a bench.
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The underside looks like this.
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Nothing fancy, just an Irwin Record 36. Picked it up last year and it had some nasty paint job under a load of grime on it and a bent handle (handle straightened and grime removed in the pictures)
Say what you will about Record vices after Irwin bought them out but it is better machined and feels more solid than the other old Record 36 I have. Anyway strip down, clean and wire wheel the horrible paint job off, repainting, assembled and oiled up ready to be moved on to give it's new owner many years of abuse.
Say what you will about Record vices after Irwin bought them out but it is better machined and feels more solid than the other old Record 36 I have. Anyway strip down, clean and wire wheel the horrible paint job off, repainting, assembled and oiled up ready to be moved on to give it's new owner many years of abuse.
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I wonder why they curved the ends of the jaw plates?
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I can only assume it was to avoid leaving marks in whatever they were clamping but soft jaws would have been better. Luckily I had a spare set of jaws from the other Record 36.
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From big to tiny, but also Quick Release, and well-made:
sitting on a 60mm swivel York 'bullet' just over 1in wide jaws and 9oz, Lincoln and QEII pennies for scale
lift-off rack plus tommy-bar and screw
I thought my well-made mini was a one-off until I saw a 1912 Manufrance catalogue (a big sales op that sold items from all over, so doesn't mean the vice was French) showing 3 models from 2 1/4 - 4 in
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Worthy to be called a Jewellers Vice.
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I haven't had time to visit the vice/vise thread for a while, as I've been pretty much swamped with work on our 'old house' project, but I recently picked up another vice and did a little rejuvenation work on it, so here I am again.
This is an old No. 0 hinged pipe vice by Armstrong of Bridgeport, Connecticut. I looked at several catalogues online and couldn't find the 'exact' version (there were minor changes over the years), but here's link to a 1911 catalogue showing "Armstrong's Hinged Vise," which is very similar: https://archive.org/details/armstrong-mfg-catalog-13/page/36/mode/2up
This is what it looked like when I found it in the mud outside of an antique store:
At first glance, I thought it might be too far gone, but a closer look showed that the threads and jaw teeth were still in good shape. To rejuvenate it, I blasted off the mud/rust/grime, replaced the hook pivot pin and hinge bolt with new bolts, painted the vice body, and blued and oiled the handle/threads/jaws. One of the old catalogs mentioned it being finished in black, but under the rust I found some odd remnants of what appeared to me like some kind of plating...not sure what kind...so I opted to finish it in a metallic "stainless steel" colour. Note: The hex-head bolts are temporary. I'm going to rummage through my stash of old bolts to see if I can find some square-head bolts of the proper size. Square-head bolts would provide a little more clearance for the sliding jaw.
It grips like new. I plan to use this vice, rather than leave it on a shelf like some of my other vices.
Since I don't have much available bench space, I bolted a piece of steel angle under the vice so that I can simply clamp it in my large vice when I want to use it.
This is an old No. 0 hinged pipe vice by Armstrong of Bridgeport, Connecticut. I looked at several catalogues online and couldn't find the 'exact' version (there were minor changes over the years), but here's link to a 1911 catalogue showing "Armstrong's Hinged Vise," which is very similar: https://archive.org/details/armstrong-mfg-catalog-13/page/36/mode/2up
This is what it looked like when I found it in the mud outside of an antique store:
At first glance, I thought it might be too far gone, but a closer look showed that the threads and jaw teeth were still in good shape. To rejuvenate it, I blasted off the mud/rust/grime, replaced the hook pivot pin and hinge bolt with new bolts, painted the vice body, and blued and oiled the handle/threads/jaws. One of the old catalogs mentioned it being finished in black, but under the rust I found some odd remnants of what appeared to me like some kind of plating...not sure what kind...so I opted to finish it in a metallic "stainless steel" colour. Note: The hex-head bolts are temporary. I'm going to rummage through my stash of old bolts to see if I can find some square-head bolts of the proper size. Square-head bolts would provide a little more clearance for the sliding jaw.
It grips like new. I plan to use this vice, rather than leave it on a shelf like some of my other vices.
Since I don't have much available bench space, I bolted a piece of steel angle under the vice so that I can simply clamp it in my large vice when I want to use it.
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Not one single part of this moved, not even 1mm. Even the handle ja d to be gotten hot with a blowtorch and heated full force with a copper mallet for a few hours before it moved. Took weeks of soaking, heating and hammering to get it all apart.
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The only other heavily rusted vice I've had to deal with was this Sevo, which needed some persuasion to separate and a good soaking and wire wheel treatment.
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Vices I have pulled out of the scrap this year, there’s a few others not pictured
I’m really not into vices and I find vice perverts weird but chucking good usable things away that aren’t being made properly anymore is wrong
I’m really not into vices and I find vice perverts weird but chucking good usable things away that aren’t being made properly anymore is wrong
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Looks like a Record 112 under the pile, throwing away what was a £1000 vice really is criminal.
