G-son Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 Picked up a Fabrex 413 drill press vise a while back. 3" wide jaws, opens 2½" with the swivel jaw in place, twist and lift it out and there's 5" between the jaw and the screw. Well worth the ~$4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 1 hour ago, G-son said: Well worth the ~$4. Indeed. Good find. Clean 'er up like new and apply a nice coat of paint............or at least that's what I'd do. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-son Posted August 31, 2019 Author Share Posted August 31, 2019 It's going on a date with a wire brush to take care of the rust. Don't think I'll paint it now, would have to buy paint just for that, but I might get to that when I need to paint something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 Nice vise, good score. If you don't want to paint it you could have it chromed. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-son Posted August 31, 2019 Author Share Posted August 31, 2019 Chrome plating? I think you just took "hard jaws" to a new level! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-son Posted September 2, 2019 Author Share Posted September 2, 2019 A few minutes with the wire brush in a drill and now it looks like this. Good enough for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-son Posted September 11, 2019 Author Share Posted September 11, 2019 Brought these two home yesterday, about $5 for the green one and $10 for the blue. Both are 4" wide, the green opens about 5", the blue 6". The green one has no markings and is made mostly of 5mm thick sheet metal welded together, and judging by the amount of weld spatter etc. it may have been on a welding table or just been someones go to place for welding. Not really impressive in any way, but it seems to do the job a vise is supposed to do. The blue one is marked 3 and Made in Denmark, and appears to be made from cast iron. Descent shape, apart from missing a jaw, a piece of cast iron is broken off under the other jaw, and some weld spatter that has been ground off now. Was suprised to see that the jaws were attached with 1/4" screws, and those don't exactly grow on trees here, at least not if you want a specific head. Anyway, one of the threads for the missing jaw appears rather damaged, so when I've made a new jaw I'll probably helicoil them to M6 instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anachronist58 Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 Beautiful, heavy, Iron. Love the price - vexingly inexpensive. Robert Taylor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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