Fretters
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Or the "Ever Elusive"----5198!!!
I always have visions of a Blofeld type character sitting and stroking a 5198 off to the side of them, whilst they read your posts about 5198's.
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I always have visions of a Blofeld type character sitting and stroking a 5198 off to the side of them, whilst they read your posts about 5198's.
AndrewH
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Hahaha! Anyone remember this from a month or so ago?
http://fortwayne.craigslist.org/tls/4617745079.html
If not.. Here's a refresher..
And after mediocre restoration...
And I'm guessing the rear swivel still doesn't work, if he even knows it's supposed swivel as it wasn't mentioned! Pretty sure this guy bought it, slapped some paint on it and more than doubled what it sold for lol
Edit: and why anyone would paint the slide, a constantly moving part is beyond me.
http://fortwayne.craigslist.org/tls/4617745079.html
If not.. Here's a refresher..
And after mediocre restoration...
And I'm guessing the rear swivel still doesn't work, if he even knows it's supposed swivel as it wasn't mentioned! Pretty sure this guy bought it, slapped some paint on it and more than doubled what it sold for lol
Edit: and why anyone would paint the slide, a constantly moving part is beyond me.
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oldldh
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I always have visions of a Blofeld type character sitting and stroking a 5198 off to the side of them, whilst they read your posts about 5198's.
You're probably more right, than you know...
EOC_Jason
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Don't kid yourself, you would take the first one you found, and would do things that you would swear you would kill a person if they spoke about what they saw...
va.grouseman
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EOC--EOC.----I got my pride. I would only go so far for a 109 or 209. But if you were a witness to it, yea I'd have to kill you.
drivesitfar
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All: My Reed 2C might not be as big as some of the Reeds that some of us might do deadly harm to others for, but i think it's maybe the most functional vise Reed made. Here's my favorite Reed vise to use on a daily basis. It's too bad Reed didn't make more of these. My Reed 2C in it's natural state before it finds a permanent home on one of my benches.
One picture showing it holding half of a 50 pound dumbbell handle while i get out the bolt to take the plates off and the vise isn't bolted to or attached to anything.
One picture showing it holding half of a 50 pound dumbbell handle while i get out the bolt to take the plates off and the vise isn't bolted to or attached to anything.
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bl00
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I'm both happy & sad when I see that... Happy that late-model 108S has a good home... Sad that it's not mine....That is the holy grail right there... Unless they make a 109S just like it...
It might go up on ebay sometime in the next year. I go through a never ending cycle of: like it, don't need it, like it, don't need it....
Mark in Indiana
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Hahaha! Anyone remember this from a month or so ago?
http://fortwayne.craigslist.org/tls/4617745079.html
If not.. Here's a refresher..
And after mediocre restoration...
And I'm guessing the rear swivel still doesn't work, if he even knows it's supposed swivel as it wasn't mentioned! Pretty sure this guy bought it, slapped some paint on it and more than doubled what it sold for lol
Edit: and why anyone would paint the slide, a constantly moving part is beyond me.
Hey Andrew,
As far as painting goes, the seller doesn't read this forum to follow the expertise.
Concerning his asking price, he is asking twice as much as the market value would go for. The problem with selling one that big is that there is a limited market for it. Along with an economy that keeps the average guy from buying toys. I had 3, six inch vises with the asking price of $250.00, and I was damn glad not only to sell them, but to see that they went back into shop action.
Happy Trails.
oldldh
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It might go up on ebay sometime in the next year. I go through a never ending cycle of: like it, don't need it, like it, don't need it....
Watch him...
He's such a tease!!!
rmalkow2
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I got these vises today at a local farm auction. There were at least 8 different vises in the listings but I only ended up with 4 of them. And I think I got the best of the big vises that were available.
Here's the line up.
The little clamp-on vise was a bonus as it turned up in the mix of a table full of tools. It was actually buried under the table in the grass with other boxes on top. I almost missed it in the mess.
The small pipe vise does not yet have a maker name. At least one I can find until the grime is cleaned off. Just No. 1 cast into the base.
Vise number 3 is another pipe vise, this time a Reed No.70.
The big guy in the bunch is a Samson 5256. A big heavy brute that was in the basement and is pretty dirty but seems in overall good shape. The other big vises that were used in various barns were much more banged up. So I'm glad I snagged this one.
Here's the line up.
The little clamp-on vise was a bonus as it turned up in the mix of a table full of tools. It was actually buried under the table in the grass with other boxes on top. I almost missed it in the mess.
The small pipe vise does not yet have a maker name. At least one I can find until the grime is cleaned off. Just No. 1 cast into the base.
Vise number 3 is another pipe vise, this time a Reed No.70.
The big guy in the bunch is a Samson 5256. A big heavy brute that was in the basement and is pretty dirty but seems in overall good shape. The other big vises that were used in various barns were much more banged up. So I'm glad I snagged this one.
EOC_Jason
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It might go up on ebay sometime in the next year. I go through a never ending cycle of: like it, don't need it, like it, don't need it....
FMC1959
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......The big guy in the bunch is a Samson 5256. A big heavy brute that was in the basement and is pretty dirty but seems in overall good shape. The other big vises that were used in various barns were much more banged up. So I'm glad I snagged this one.
There's VA's Samson with the scalloped jaws.
FMC1959
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It might go up on ebay sometime in the next year. I go through a never ending cycle of: like it, don't need it, like it, don't need it....
B100, do you still have your Prentiss 58 chipping vise? (Another of the "Vise Wonders of the World")
va.grouseman
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Previously posted by b100.
It might go up on ebay sometime in the next year. I go through a never ending cycle of: like it, don't need it, like it, don't need it....
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b100----Where-abouts are you in the cycle. Could you pencil me in right at the end of like it.
It might go up on ebay sometime in the next year. I go through a never ending cycle of: like it, don't need it, like it, don't need it....
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b100----Where-abouts are you in the cycle. Could you pencil me in right at the end of like it.
bl00
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Jason:
FMC1959: no, it's gone
va.grouseman: I will do that.
FMC1959: no, it's gone
va.grouseman: I will do that.
wrenchguy
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b100 "FMC1959: no, it's gone"
WHY?
WHY?
va.grouseman
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Pretty good price on Reed 406 parts in San Diego CL. Base and swivel static jaw, $99.00.
If that's all you needed to complete a 406, not bad. Swivel base might be universal to another reed. Probably negotiate.
http://sandiego.craigslist.org/ssd/tld/4618039809.html
If that's all you needed to complete a 406, not bad. Swivel base might be universal to another reed. Probably negotiate.
http://sandiego.craigslist.org/ssd/tld/4618039809.html
bl00
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I have way too much stuff that I don't really need. I'd like to get down to where I have only slightly too much stuff that I don't really need.
The buyer sent me a message at the right time. It wasn't up for sale, but I had been thinking about selling some time in the future. It just wasn't used enough to justify the space in my 2 car garage. It went to a metal shop where it will sit on a big steel table and get used as it was meant to. I haven't seen a 58 in better condition than this one. It was a beautiful and enormous vise.
Here a rare pairing that you might never see again together. They are 2 consecutive sizes in Morgan's swivel backs, both from about the same era. The reddish 340B I showed a week ago. Strange as often things are, I ran across the next size larger, the 345B. Morgan made one hell of a vise and all you guys have made this heck of a vise thread.
MORGAN 340B MORGAN 345B
LENGTH 16” ....... 19”
HEIGHT 9”....... 11”
OPENS 4 ½”...... 6”
THROAT 3 ¾”...... 4 ½’
JAWS 4”......... 4 ½”
WEIGHT 65 LBS ..... 80 LBS
MORGAN 340B MORGAN 345B
LENGTH 16” ....... 19”
HEIGHT 9”....... 11”
OPENS 4 ½”...... 6”
THROAT 3 ¾”...... 4 ½’
JAWS 4”......... 4 ½”
WEIGHT 65 LBS ..... 80 LBS
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EOC_Jason
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I called dibs first!
LOLSeriously though, you know you need a bigger vise when you max out the capacity of a Reed 4C (which I've done a few times).
GETRIDAONE
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Autopts, Is that lime green the only color thet had on the sale shelf ? 
They both look great !!
They both look great !!
Autopts, Is that lime green the only color thet had on the sale shelf ?
They both look great !!
Thanks...Both are Painter's Touch. The Red is Paprika Satin and the Green is Satin Eden
GETRIDAONE
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I thought I had the perfect red with the paprika (don't remember what brand ?) and it turned out to be orange crush and it is not the camera.
va.grouseman
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Autopts-----Beautiful job on two great vises. Yep, Morgan made top tier vises. I got one of those 345Bs, and I wouldn't take a gold monkey for it. Real collectors, those are.
EOC------Sounds like you need the 209 far worse than I do. That's just going to kill me to have to show you a near mint 209 just setting in chains doing nothing, knowing you need a really big vise so bad. At least that's how I hope it works out.
EOC------Sounds like you need the 209 far worse than I do. That's just going to kill me to have to show you a near mint 209 just setting in chains doing nothing, knowing you need a really big vise so bad. At least that's how I hope it works out.
jakemac
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I thought I had the perfect red with the paprika (don't remember what brand ?) and it turned out to be orange crush and it is not the camera.
Well, at least you'll always know where it is.
EOC_Jason
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bigcaddy
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Man, everybody has been finding some real treasures in the past few weeks
Today was a 2 sale day and I think I did good at the second. The yard was full of junk so you really had to dig.
I discovered a small area of tools in the back and walked by this beauty at least twice before I bent down and saw it sitting on a lower shelf.
Craftsman mady by Columbian, never mounted or clamped anything in its life. 4.5" jaws and original paint with some light surface rust
Today was a 2 sale day and I think I did good at the second. The yard was full of junk so you really had to dig.
I discovered a small area of tools in the back and walked by this beauty at least twice before I bent down and saw it sitting on a lower shelf.
Craftsman mady by Columbian, never mounted or clamped anything in its life. 4.5" jaws and original paint with some light surface rust
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bigcaddy
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EOC_Jason
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Holy cow, that is a nice gem and rare gem...
va.grouseman
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Previously posted by EOC Jason.
I got bolt cutters....
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Yea, that's my biggest fear. I can be in a hardware store and just see somebody checking the price of a set of bolt cutters and I break out in a cold sweat.
By the way, is that you with the fuzzy hands and the orange hair and the Ping-Pong eyes in post 19305. Man you better get back on them meds. You're going to hurt yourself.
I got bolt cutters....
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Yea, that's my biggest fear. I can be in a hardware store and just see somebody checking the price of a set of bolt cutters and I break out in a cold sweat.
By the way, is that you with the fuzzy hands and the orange hair and the Ping-Pong eyes in post 19305. Man you better get back on them meds. You're going to hurt yourself.
oldldh
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BC---
At first glance...
I thought you'd found a 5197...
Me thinks your "new jewel" was a decendent of the 51XX series...
New!!!---Never Bolted Down!!!
Yeah---That *****!!!---and so do YOU
At first glance...
I thought you'd found a 5197...
Me thinks your "new jewel" was a decendent of the 51XX series...
New!!!---Never Bolted Down!!!
Yeah---That *****!!!---and so do YOU
bigcaddy
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BC---
At first glance...
I thought you'd found a 5197...
Me thinks your "new jewel" was a decendent of the 51XX series...
New!!!---Never Bolted Down!!!
Yeah---That *****!!!---and so do YOU
I don't doubt for a second it's not and it's another notation in the vise DNA genome I have at the "museum"
I don't doubt for a second it's not and it's another notation in the vise DNA genome I have at the "museum"
looks a lot like the 5184 i found
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nickelTwin
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bigcaddy
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Yours is an earlier version of mine. I would venture a guess and say mine was made in the late 70s or early 80s.
FMC1959
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Jason:
FMC1959: no, it's gone
Wow, that's a shocker! Just to throw a little sand in the wound, would you mind telling us how much that lucky shop paid to have the privilege of owning your 58?
yours is super nice shape great find, especially the shape its in
jakemac
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That was made by Columbian.
I'm only guessing at the date, but I'm thinking late-70's to mid-80's ??????
I have a 5-1/2" that I bought in '89 and while it is similar in style, the markings are slightly different. So, I'm guessing yours is only slightly older.
GarrettWeidman
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For anyone in the Wichita Ks area looking for a vise, the Yard store has two stationary Reeds, either 4" or 5" jaws for $100 a piece, on one the handle has a pretty good bend but they both were in pretty good shape aside from the six layers of boeing blue that they were painted.