Vises

Sorry for the cruddy picture, but here is a vice stand i fabbed up. The base is 2 peices of 15 inch long by 8 inch wide 1/4 thick flat plate, welded in a T. Upright is 2 inch square 1/4 thick wall tubing left over from the treadle hammer:D(I love recycling). The vice can be removed, but the fit is very tight so it takes a little smack with a hammer. It is a slightly light base, but it works well because as you stand on it it makes the stand instantly as much as you weight(in my case 208 pounds). The little spur on the bottom of the vice sits in a hole drilled in the plates, VERY STURDY.

Hi ...I have stated to make jaws for some vices i am rebuilding... making them from some old files I have Annealed in lime then cut drilled and fitted to the Vice.... I need to know what the best way and or Temperature to temper them at ??? Also some one said that this can be done in some type of mud dos any one know about this technique? Thanks for any info

Today I bought a vise that free stands with four legs. The Pat. date is 1896. It works by pressing the pedal and the jaws close, release and they open. It looks very handy for hook production where you are twisting alot of pieces. I paid too much for it I know....but I have never saw another one for sale. Let me know if you have one and what you use it for

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This is one of my get a round tuit jobs. I've had theses two vises around for more than a year and they are now being repaired. The hardest job was making a mounting bracket for the larger vice. I started with 1 1/2 sq. stock 7 in. long. Cut an almost square tenon in one end with a zip cut blade on my grinder. Then carefully cleaned things up. (its hidden anyways) NOT NOW! ....dough! Cut a long sq. hole. Then the two man job. pounding flat on flat forever. Thats as far as I got so far. I'm hoping to do a little shaping next. Fullering down the ramp and squeezing it out on both sides into something like two leaves with a point between them. I have a top fuller that should…

Well, I finally got a post vise. It seems to be a 5" vise, that weighs maybe 40-50 lbs. I made sure the screw was in excellent condition. It really is. I doubt it will need much work for a long time. all it needs right now is a bit of filing to remove a burr. It was $75, because the nut is missing and the screw is exposed at the end. I am going to make a cap for that.

I have a post vise that I need to mount. I don't have a work bench or anything yet. I have a concrete floor in the barn, but I need to move the tractor and various vehicles in and out so my "shop" is all portable for the time being. Anyone have any ideas or drawings? rvb