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Hi all this my working vice would like to know if its an old good record no. 3 or new poor quality newish crap one.just need yo no so i got a excuse to look for a bigger older beast of a vice like a no.8 now thats a vice.p.s. thought this thread was going to be boring but its been very interest with alot of info on alsorts of vices.
One never needs any excuse to get another vice, btw. tinker jim
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Yes i can tell by prolific posting on this thread you have one or two vices tucked about the place i will need a good excuse to sneak a new vice in the garage.she who must be obeyed always notices the new tools in there how i never know cause its a right mess lol
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Tinker Jim, glad to see someone else who actually uses their workshop for work! looks like a good solid vice to me but I know nothing about them other than to use them, would love an old Swindon, to use mind,must be really usefull. Hopefully I will find one sooner rather than later.
So Bank holiday Monday tomorrow eh, hmmm think I will have a relaxing day as its supposed to rain, take the covers of the mig and give it a blow out and clean, clean my tools and put then away and give the old vice a rub over with silicone oil to keep it sweet.nice. Arther
So Bank holiday Monday tomorrow eh, hmmm think I will have a relaxing day as its supposed to rain, take the covers of the mig and give it a blow out and clean, clean my tools and put then away and give the old vice a rub over with silicone oil to keep it sweet.nice. Arther
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Woden 190 7a on gumtree in bramley 40 quid to far for me but may be close for someone on here....
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Thanks mattf and arthur daily for your replies this threads going to get me in trouble before the bank holiday is over already lookin for another bigger brother for my little record lol.arthur you massage some silicone oil in to your vice thats spoiling it mines lucky if it gets a shot wd once in a while. As for the rain dont get me started on that the mig was in and out the garage so often today i thought we were doing the hokey cokey.
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Ha, dont get me wrong, you cant see the bench for tools as been busy and the vice,covered in filings and yuk so its going to get its spring time treat then back to work, only reason I oil it is I sweat excessive acid, so much so that raw steel will be brown with rust after a week where I handle it.
As a nipper went to of the job engineering training for first year, along the way we had to make/machine a small vice, well after handing them in to be measured and marked they were all lined up on a long bench for us to collect and take home, could nt find mine, instructor called me over, yours is that one, totally brown with rust.
Anyways head instructor spoke to me and as soon as I finished making something I was told to take it to the correct instructor who had all been informed to measure and check straight away, as measuring a parralell(?) bar which was meant to be accurate within a thou was a joke otherwise !
Must find that vice out and put a pic on here .Arther
As a nipper went to of the job engineering training for first year, along the way we had to make/machine a small vice, well after handing them in to be measured and marked they were all lined up on a long bench for us to collect and take home, could nt find mine, instructor called me over, yours is that one, totally brown with rust.
Anyways head instructor spoke to me and as soon as I finished making something I was told to take it to the correct instructor who had all been informed to measure and check straight away, as measuring a parralell(?) bar which was meant to be accurate within a thou was a joke otherwise !
Must find that vice out and put a pic on here .Arther
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"What? Oh that? I've had that for years; it was under the bench / box / in that old cupboard / down John's garage for sometime I could get around to it. Not surprised you didn't see it."
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You never worked for British Leyland, did you?
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The affronted, table turning method usually works well too. "Honestly. I pay attention to everything of yours, and you can't even be bothered enough to have noticed half the stuff I have. Good job one of us has the decency to pay attention and care...". They generally know you're likely stretching the truth a bit, but they daren't usually risk pushing it and looking like the inattentive one in the relationship.
Then there's the: "Pee them off so much that they don't mind as long as you keep it out of their way" method. Usually, dumping a large, grubby piece of machinery in a corner of the front room for a few weeks makes sure that they stop giving a damn as long as you take everything straight down to the shed. They only complain so many times before they realise it'll end up dumped in the front room if they do.
Also, (and this is my personal favourite), there's the: "I couldn't give a damn what they say and they're banned from the workshop so can't see what you have in there anyhows" method.
If they do complain about seeing anything going down to the workshop, just nonchalantly rest your hand on the last piece of useless, over-priced tat they bought as you're asking them if they're honestly complaining that you've just bought a useful piece of equipment for the workshop. They usually take the hint.
Our Gert never usually complains about owt I get though. She knows she spends more on tat than I do, and I always make sure I keep the guilt scales balanced in my favour.
I rarely complain about her getting owt, and she returns the favour.
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If its a tool it will earn its keep, thats my reasoning generally. arther
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I had one of those, but it got lost in the mists of house moves.Found this bad boy today
I'm not sure whether it was ever a commercially-made item or made by apprentices as an exercise.
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You may well be right, it was in the bottom of a box of old tools left out to rust, must have been an old boy (or girl) who passed on and the tools got thrown out, nice little thing it is. Typical box of odds, spokeshave, drills, woodworking tools mixed with just about all you'd find in an old tool box.
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They were commercially produced, how much do you think it weighs?
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A similar action to my Wilson Riley bench vice, they are nice. There is another variant of that wood vice in the early B&H catalogues.
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