Chas parker no. 105 vise

[I can fix anything]

Just got this in a large lot of tools. One of the balls on the handle is gone. Whats the best way to replace it? What color would it have been originally?





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[autopts]

Its just a steel handle. I got these and had them drilled and tapped to 9/16". Get two, get the end of that handle down to 9/16" coarse and screw them on.
http://www.reidsupply.com/detail.aspx?itm=SB-24

 

[I can fix anything]

I would like to try to be more original looking. Its going on a shelf not in the shop. If nothing else comes up i will use your method. Thanks

 

[davework]

I just picked up a Parker 105 on CL. Cool vise. But it is missing the lead screw collar. These pics of yours looks like it might be missing from yours also? Did you end up doing anything to replace it?

Any suggestions on making one?

 

[davework]

Bump this up to see of anyone who has a Parker might be able to help with a replacement for the collar?

 

[dieselmike]

bump for this deadbeat seller, i want my money back

 

[Catamount]

bump for this deadbeat seller, i want my money back

I must've missed something... who is the deadbeat, so we can avoid him?

 

[G_P]

bump for this deadbeat seller, i want my money back

Yeah I'm really confused. I see nothing for sale in this thread.

 

[autopts]

I just picked up a Parker 105 on CL. Cool vise. But it is missing the lead screw collar. These pics of yours looks like it might be missing from yours also? Did you end up doing anything to replace it?

Any suggestions on making one?

I responded in a post to someone that I was parting out a 3 1/2" No. 87 Parker. They also were looking for a collar. I'll take mine off and measure the ID of the bottom.

 

[Jack Olsen]

I recently bought a Wilton which was missing one cap piece.

On autopts (very helpful) advice, I welded a steel nut on it and used a bench grinder to shape it to an approximate version of what was on the other end.

I don't have much skill for this sort of thing. But for what I need, this will work fine. If you need yours to look more correct, then King Metals will sell you a 3/4" steel sphere for less than a buck. If you drill it, you could weld it on there pretty easily and have it look the same as the other one.

 

[davework]

I responded in a post to someone that I was parting out a 3 1/2" No. 87 Parker. They also were looking for a collar. I'll take mine off and measure the ID of the bottom.

Thanks. And I think I am calling it the right thing, but I need the part that holds the screw and handle from coming out of the vise. On the nice ones, it has Parker in raised lettering.

On mine, just the remnants of the single screw is broken off where it supposed to be attached.

My lead screw just turns until it pops out of the jaws with no collar there to hold it to the dynamic jaw.

 

[davework]

Here is a close up of the missing collar. Does anyone have a big parker that can show me what this piece looks like? I am going to try and get it apart and cleaned up this weekend. Might just need to fab something up that would work?

 

[autopts]

Thanks. And I think I am calling it the right thing, but I need the part that holds the screw and handle from coming out of the vise. On the nice ones, it has Parker in raised lettering.


Dave,
I have a 87 Parker, 3 1/2" combo that I'am parting out including the collar.
Nick

 

[davework]

Can you take some measurements of the collar?

The shaft on the 105 is 0.88". The outside of the collar would be around 2.72"

Does it have two screws that hold it on the dynamic jaw, or one? Mine only has one, but some of the others I've seen have 2.

 

[davework]

It is in the same style as the one in this thread: one top screw, and the top would be thinner than the "legs" due to the offset in the vise...

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=134751

Not sure if the size would be the same though, as that is a 3-1/2, and the 105 is a 4-1/2

 

[oilslick]

How much is a 105 parker worth,anyway?