The VISES of Garage Journal

[bigcaddy]

Calling Brother Scott...Calling Brother Scott...

Another orphan needs your help...

I thought only the red headed orphans were beaten that hard. What was the previous owner clamping in those jaws.....m-80s?

 

[drivesitfar]

funny thing is the screws are still in the cast and a new pair of jaws and a paint job and we'd be singing a different tune.

KM: Wrench has no global boundaries as do others with the vise vice. i bet you might have even looked in another state for some or do you still have the great Colorado vise purchase in your other garage?

Balane that is an awesome looking vise, but i might use the avacodo as a good primer coat and grab another can to use as the color before it goes to the auction. my 2 cents and glad you got the swivel free.

 

[Outlawmws]

What are you guys snooping around our CL for, don't you have enough area in Indiana and Alabama to find stuff. CO. is a small state. The dozen or so GJ members here have slim pickings.

The question is Dr. Scott, is the patient in your hospital?

 

[zkling]

I buy gobs of unused paint at garage sales for pennies on the dollar. I start grabbing cans from the many full crates of it I have and shake each one. If it feels full then I use it. I looked at this particular can and wondered what Summer Avocado would look like on a vise. There it is.

I personally would have preferred a nice Fall or even Winter Avocado.

 

[drivesitfar]

Oldie: now that you know they make a Dodge vise how about buying one of those and painting it "arrest me red"?

i for one didn't know that Dodge was even a brand of vise and thanks guys for posting them because they look great.

 

[Filson]

I personally would have preferred a nice Fall or even Winter Avocado.

Agreed. Summer Avocado isn't in. :supergay:

 

[balane]

Now if I had made up some color name to tell you, like;

KRYLON INDUSTRIALIZED FOUNDRY WARTIME SNOT GREEN,

you guys would love it.

 

[oldldh]

Now if I had made up some color name to tell you, like;

KRYLON INDUSTRIALIZED FOUNDRY WARTIME SNOT GREEN,

you guys would love it.

Absatively, posilutely....

Wartime Snot Green is one of my all time favorites...

Drivesit---There probably is a 6 or 8 inch Dodge swivel base/jaw vise out there in someone's trashpile... I like the was that beastie looks... Sort of rounded 51XXish looking... Substantial looking thing, it is... It would look good in "Arrest-Me-Red", too!!!

Something else to keep looking for...

 

[Filson]

Now if I had made up some color name to tell you, like;

KRYLON INDUSTRIALIZED FOUNDRY WARTIME SNOT GREEN,

you guys would love it.

Yeah... but you didn't.

It's all good bud.

 

[GETRIDAONE]

va.grouseman, I am a Pontiac man but will make an exception for the Dodge also

PghJKB, What a bunch of lawyer BS on that patent. I'm gonna take it apart and see how it works. A little lube will get the pawl rocking maybe it will actuate the nut.

balane, That old drill press would be perfect for a two tone paint

Looks like the only Dodge vises that have turned up are all the same 4" size. I haven't weighed it but I think about 55 - 60 lbs

 

[wrenchguy]

What are you guys snooping around our CL for, don't you have enough area in Indiana and Alabama to find stuff. CO. is a small state. The dozen or so GJ members here have slim pickings.

i got connections.... i actually search wyoming as i got a daughter and soninlaw up there. hope u got it.

 

[EOC_Jason]

Get some darker green and brown and make it a CAMO vise...

"Duck Dynasty Special"

I bet you will get triple the money on eBay for it... lol

 

[KMScott]

i got connections.... i actually search wyoming as i got a daughter and soninlaw up there. hope u got it.

No, I missed it, $10 vise of that shape lasted only a hour. Look what I picked up in Casper for $175 last year. Just finished the handles and swivel clamps, jaws are done too. Now it goes in the strip and clean pile which is growing.

 

[wrenchguy]

No, I missed it, $10 vise of that shape lasted only a hour. Look what I picked up in Casper for $175 last year. Just finished the handles and swivel clamps, jaws are done too. Now it goes in the strip and clean pile which is growing.

nice, i only been into vices 10 months and probably searching c-list 6. casper is where they reside. good luck.

 

[EOC_Jason]

Darn you people... I don't know who suggested RED as the color for this Reed, but I was looking on the shelf of spray paints and found a couple cans of "Sunrise Red"...

Here's a couple pics after the first coat... God it looks ****!

 

[jakemac]

^^^^^^ Jessica Rabbit, in vise form.

 

[KMScott]

Darn you people... I don't know who suggested RED as the color for this Reed, but I was looking on the shelf of spray paints and found a couple cans of "Sunrise Red"...

Here's a couple pics after the first coat... God it looks ****!

OK Oldie are you happy now, got everybody thinking red. I do admit it looks pretty good Jason.

 

[Rom'S]

 

[oldldh]

Darn you people... I don't know who suggested RED as the color for this Reed, but I was looking on the shelf of spray paints and found a couple cans of "Sunrise Red"...

Here's a couple pics after the first coat... God it looks ****!

"Sunrise Red" is "Arrest-Me-Red's" first cousin...

Sunrise is from the "Good" side of the family...

Arrest-me, well, let's say, not so much...

 

[oldldh]

Rom'S----

A vise from the USSR---

Speaking of RED!!!

That vise NEEDS to be RED!!!!

 

[jakemac]

Be careful where you mount it, that vise might try to annex your other benches.

 

[Outlawmws]

Awesome Rom; That vise has all the subtlety of an old WWII Stalin tank!

Needs to be stripped bare and just a red star painted on the side, like many of the tanks that rolled onto the battle field straight from the factory sans paint...

 

[va.grouseman]

Yep---Rom---Need's to be RED, and setting on a square stand.
Wonder when it defected?

Red works on American to.

 

[Rom'S]

As soon as I decide to repaint it, it will be red, sure !!

 

[wrenchguy]

nice.

 

[454ragtop]

Am I the only one that finds it strange that a vise made in the USSR would say "Made in USSR" in English on the side of it? Why not Russian?

 

[Filson]

So I stopped by the tool treasure trove and asked if they'd take $250 for the Rock Island 577. They said "No, I've had a lot of guys ask about it but nobody wants to pay the $350 I'm asking and it's worth a lot more than that. I'll do $300 but that's it." If nobody in the area is willing to pay $300-350 I'd have a hard time getting my money back if I ever decided to sell it. Gonna pass on it. I can't get myself to pay $300 for a 6" vise when I paid $40 bucks for my 6" Parker.

 

[skorpio]

Am I the only one that finds it strange that a vise made in the USSR would say "Made in USSR" in English on the side of it? Why not Russian?

Especially considering "USSR" in Russian is "CCCP".

 

[balane]

A product intended for export is my best guess.

 

[Outlawmws]

A product intended for export is my best guess.

This: It's an export model and I've seen that marking before on other tools.

 

[RLaCasse1]

Hey, first post on this site.

American Scale Co 30. Borderline useless outside of small things. I need a bigger vice badly.

 

[oldldh]

I know some of you are Reed aficionados...

Would any of you like a Reed 404 1/2A???

gulfport.craigslist.org/tls/4361759304.html

He wants $ 499.00 for it, but he's also got a Sheffield model 22 1/2 from England for $ 75.00...

Buy both for ???...

 

[Outlawmws]

RLaCasse1, that poor little AS must be living in terror with that hammer sitting next to it...

Welcome to GJ!

 

[Fretters]

The Record is a 4", I believe.

 

[Craptain]

I know some of you are Reed aficionados...

Would any of you like a Reed 404 1/2A???

gulfport.craigslist.org/tls/4361759304.html

He wants $ 499.00 for it, but he's also got a Sheffield model 22 1/2 from England for $ 75.00...

Buy both for ???...

Looks like an anvil as well in 3rd pic. Hmmm.

 

[autopts]

Yep---Rom---Need's to be RED, and setting on a square stand.
Wonder when it defected?

Red works on American to.

Bet that one isn't in chains..I bet its home in your bedroom. Next time I call you, me and your wife are going to have a little chat....

 

[autopts]

Well..... I guess it is Pea Green.

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Wow!!! That's one of the nicest Columbian swivels I have ever seen.

 

[autopts]

Here's a 1946 1st generation Wilton 4 1/2" Bullet. This vise is a small bullet coming in at only 38 lbs. Its a low boy being only 6 5/8" high. Today's 450S is almost twice that in weight but the quality was still there. One big difference Wilton quit making these in around 1954.

 

[va.grouseman]

I just happened to remember that the Dodge vise was mentioned in a list in EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT VISES.

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Posts: 28 Default American vise manufacturers - 1958

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Attached is a scan of the listing of American bench vise manufacturers from the 1958 MacRae's Blue Book.

There were almost 40 companies making bench vises then - and that's just bench vises, not machinists vises or other types:
Abernathy Vise
Acme Tool
Birtman
Brink & Cotton
Champion Blower
Chicago Tool
Columbian
Dodge
Emmert
Erie
Flexivise
Franklin
Hollands
Jordan
Littlestown
Majestic
Millers Falls
Milwaukee Hay Tool Co.
Mohn Machine Co.
Morgan
Odin
Parker
Phoenix Hardware
Prentiss
Production Devices
Reed
Richards-Wilcox
Ridge Tool
Stanley
Studebaker
Tesco
Twistite
US Lock and Hardware
Universal
Van Products
Will-Burt
Yost
Wilton

These old MacRae's Blue Books are great - the 1958 one is about 3,500 pages listing all the industrial manufacturers back then.

On the attachment you can see the addresses.
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[Provincial]

A product intended for export is my best guess.

It is ironic that the Soviets had to label their export merchandise in English. English became the language of world trade soon after WWII and it must have twisted the Russian's knickers to have to use it for labeling their products!

Nice vise, Rom'S! Enjoy it and don't be in too much of a rush to paint it - once you paint it up nice, you will feel guilty every time you come near it with a hammer!