Bantou Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Can you wonderful people help me identify this post vise? I’m in the process of restoring it. So far I’ve found two markings. A 17 on the bottom of the mounting plate and a 28 on the back cap (not sure what the technical name is) that the screw goes into. If I find more, I’ll post them. The “cap” looks like one off of a PW vise someone posted earlier but I haven’t found anything that says PW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anachronist58 Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 I can not help with the Identification, but from over here, that looks like a nice, crisp screw! Robert Taylor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 Note that the screw and screwbox are not necessarily original to any vise; Sears Roebuck sold them as repair parts in their catalog; so it could be like trying to identify a car by who made the tires. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bantou Posted May 10, 2021 Author Share Posted May 10, 2021 In doing further research, it seems a bunch of them were never labeled by the manufacturers. There is another mark on the front of the fixed jaw but it is illegible. I think it was another pair of numbers but all I can make out is the 0. Got her all cleaned up and mounted. She got a healthy coat of BLO before I put her back together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 Numbers on the front of the fixed jaw are often the weight as they sold them that way. So weigh it and you can probably guess what the missing number was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bantou Posted May 10, 2021 Author Share Posted May 10, 2021 If it was by weight, it’s probably a 7 then. I estimate the weight at about 70lbs just from handling it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 Good sized one. I have a 45 and a 100 that I can see the weight stamps on and the rest I can't! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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