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[JOEPRO]

Hand made

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Is that a curtain pole or a lead screw

Great work interested to follow your mega vice build.

 

[dannysheff]

Hand made

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looking good

so-o-o -- you're making 2 -- is the other for yourself?

 

[pressbrake1]

looking good

so-o-o -- you're making 2 -- is the other for yourself?

Might make three so each daughter has one to sell

 

[dannysheff]

Might make three so each daughter has one to sell

do you think they might alternatively take up railway repair work if you also made them suitable vice stands?

 

[pressbrake1]

do you think they might alternatively take up railway repair work if you also made them suitable vice stands?

80 years too late

 

[CwazyWabbit]

Are you scaling up from one of the smaller ones that have been found? or working from the advert?

 

[pressbrake1]

Are you scaling up from one of the smaller ones that have been found? or working from the advert?

From advert
I don’t think was ever made as there’s no way it would be that heavy , though the yanks are prone to exaggeration

 

[SteveB58]

Hand made

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Beautiful piece of turning sir. Turning large, heavy pieces between centres is a tricky thing, and cutting bespoke threads too can be challenging. Great job. Always loved it when something like this landed in my job tray, much more fun than the run of the mill studs, bushes and dowels.

 

[CwazyWabbit]

From advert
I don’t think was ever made as there’s no way it would be that heavy , though the yanks are prone to exaggeration

There are smaller versions of that style kicking around, much smaller.
Yank vises do seem to have a lot of weight to them, at least according to their catalogues anyway.

 

[CwazyWabbit]

This is the only picture I can find at the moment, unfortunately it's of the swivel jaw variant.
Like you I doubt the massive one was ever made, probably got no orders for it. If it had been made surely it wouldn't have been scrapped, or at least a picture would survive.

 

[iNf]

Hand made

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Stunning work, is that done on cnc lathe or manual lathe with a ball cutter/form tooling type thing?

 

[CwazyWabbit]

From advert
I don’t think was ever made as there’s no way it would be that heavy , though the yanks are prone to exaggeration

This is interesting and supports your doubts on the weight.

1906 article on the vise, 2nd page shows the usual advert but states 385 lb
https://archive.org/download/PittsburghAutomaticViseToolCo1906/Pittsburgh Automatic Vise Tool Co 1906.pdf

1907 article on the pittsburgh vise and on the 6th page the advert with the more usual 695 lb weight
https://archive.org/download/PittsburghAutomaticViseToolCo1907/Pittsburgh Automatic Vise Tool Co 1907.pdf

 

[dannysheff]

This is interesting and supports your doubts on the weight.

1906 article on the vise, 2nd page shows the usual advert but states 385 lb
https://archive.org/download/PittsburghAutomaticViseToolCo1906/Pittsburgh Automatic Vise Tool Co 1906.pdf

1907 article on the pittsburgh vise and on the 6th page the advert with the more usual 695 lb weight
https://archive.org/download/PittsburghAutomaticViseToolCo1907/Pittsburgh Automatic Vise Tool Co 1907.pdf

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great research, cwazy, as always ---

15ins g'teed, weight not so

looks like they're hammer-swaging the end of a railroad axle -- the vise is just positioning the workpiece
surely the blocks of wood should be under the other end , the men stood on the floor, and the vise block somewhat lower - and why do that without the wheel on? (but what do I know?) --- ah well artistic license, I suppose (as with the weight?) -- don't show this to Lamb's clients - they might cancel.

 

[Martin Hocking]

Put my name on it instead of the old mans , he’s now been five years so time to change over

I used to wonder if the reason George foreman named all his kids George foreman was to avoid this problem on his electric grills!

Stupid jokes aside my son was born exactly a year later than my dads funeral and he turned four this week. Those letters must feel like quite a hefty change.
I hope I live long enough to see my kids put their name on something for the next generation…
Well done sir.

 

[JOEPRO]

I just bought this vice on ebay should be here next week



The patent is from 1928



Does anyone know the production years for these when they stopped? Curious how old it could be or if there is any definite way to date it when it gets here next week

I will likely restore it and use the record blue paint and pick out the letters with gold.

 

[Seadog]

Blue?

Red is the correct colour

 

[JOEPRO]

Blue?

Red is the correct colour

Yes seen them in red but I'd rather have it in blue I think. Record blue and gold letters would look great I think. And just keep the metal original, wire brushed and tool wax.

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

What about Japanese varnish and gold leaf?

 

[CwazyWabbit]

Blue?

Red is the correct colour

--snip--

Does anyone know the production years for these when they stopped? Curious how old it could be or if there is any definite way to date it when it gets here next week

I will likely restore it and use the record blue paint and pick out the letters with gold.

The later ones were blue, didn't say auto vice on the side, and didn't have the valve holes.

Somewhere in this thread is a post or two showing all the variants of the Record 75, its likely the 74 went through the same changes.

 

[dannysheff]

What about Japanese varnish and gold leaf?

agree -- and then a display pedestal of rosewood - but it does take some patience waiting for each coat of the lacquerwork to dry and rubbing most of it away, worth it though - after that the gold leaf seems easy