The VISES of Garage Journal

[Loydski29]

New to garage journal. Fantastic sight and I love some of the things I have read. The pictures of the vises are cool. Should be posting mine shortly.

Welcome to GJ!

 

[jreb10]

Very nice! I completely forgot I had that at one time. Is it eBay bound? That happened to the Parker 823 (or whatever model that one was)?

Yeah, it is eBay-bound after the paint hardens up a little bit more. Actually I may wait until Joe S. sells his blinged-up Craftsman as it makes my vise look a bit dowdy .

The Parker ( I forgot the number too ) is still awaiting its turn. If the condition is as good as I hope it may be a candidate for my first attempt at "polishing" certain pieces. We will see....

 

[joe.striper]

New to garage journal. Fantastic sight and I love some of the things I have read. The pictures of the vises are cool. Should be posting mine shortly.

Welcome! I love GJ. I am especially happy you are in NJ and not MA or CT. I have enough guys stealing MY vises!!!

 

[CrotalusAtrox]

EG: REED has a simple numbering system. 100 series are non swivel and the last # is the jaw size. 200 series like yours is should have a swivel base, but it's big enough to make a stand for and mount it with the 3 bolts and get a better 360 degree access.

funny you say you stopped at a garage sale at the end of the day and found those. I just stopped in to a garage sale that was at the end of a cul de sac I couldn't see from where I turned into it and they had a sale there a few months ago that looked like just clothes in the garage. dang it if I didn't just walk up there today and saw that they didn't have any tools so as I was paying the $2 for a nice little metal container I said didn't the person have any tools. she walks me out back to the 500 foot shop that had tools and the BIG vise and better tools went earlier today. I could have at least seen them if I would have walked up to the garage and asked a few months ago. live and learn.

have a great weekend all.

Chilang: it's too hot and too much gas to drive back to return the little baby so how about just putting it in a USPS flat rate box and i'll pay shipping and double your investment. WELL DONE and for a new guy on the vise thread a few months ago I have to ask have you seen GMan and Loydski and a few others on your way down that RABBIT HOLE to find a few of us. JOE thinks he's the king so if you get there don't be surprised if he want's half your vises for taxes.

cheers

Drives I just want to get to the bottom of this hole but it keeps going. LOL

 

[bulletpruf]

Anyone recognize this?

Here's the link: http://www.subito.it/giardino-fai-da-te/morsa-avellino-163956185.htm

Way overpriced (about $250), regardless of whatever it is, but wondering if it's worth trying to talk the owner down a bit.

"Large vise (made in U.S.) 60 kg [140 lbs] underused been stationary for about 40 years so not Chinese junk."

Just rare to see a U.S. made vise here. There's also a Rock Island 542 BX on the same site, but it's overpriced, too.

Thanks,

Scott

 

[Kotterkey_Fabrication]

So, first, thanks to Meatsis who saw the ad for this vise and texted me. It is 4 miles from my house. I ran over at 8 AM to get it. The vise is almost perfect. I saw it last year for $450 which is way too much for my taste, but this time the guy dropped his price to 200 and I snapped it up.

It is height adjustable, swivels around and the entire body rotates like a Parker 472 or 439! 4" jaws I believe. The owner put 3' of cement under it and floated the vise on top of it. Ive got to break the cement away without damaging the base. It is too heavy to pull out of the hole.

Anyway pretty cool right?

Is this a restorable vise for eBay? Or is this one for your collection?
Texas Vise Guy

 

[Kotterkey_Fabrication]

Hey ViceMan...is this a vice for restoration and eventually sell on eBay? Or is thei for your own collection?
TexasViceGuy

 

[bl00]

Here's another vocational school vise:
https://baltimore.craigslist.org/tls/5587316780.html

 

[Watsondog]

Finally finished my 615 Athol resto, before and after pics.. soaked in parts cleaner, wheeled, gave her the BLO treatment , polished up ready for service again. She could use a new set of jaws anyone have a fav GJ member who makes them?



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[Watsondog]

Removed my Northern Tool Wilton, selling to a friend and mounted my Columbian in its place

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[jakemac]

I scored a 4" Craftman/Reed (underlined-C) #5181 for $55 at the FM this morning.
Patent number 2127008 (???)
The tolerances on the slide are so tight that I had to scotchbrite the rust to get it to come fully out. But it bound up on the last 1/2", so I'll need to use a wooden dowel to beat it out.

I was hoping to find a larger one, but this is the first one of this style that I've seen in the wild, so there was no way I was going to let it get away if I could swing it.

 

[jakemac]

The teeth on the jaws are still crisp. I'm looking forward to giving this a new coat of Craftsman Blue once I get it cleaned up.
(the split-ring collar won't be fun to get out)

 

[454ragtop]

A few recent acquisitions, a cute little clamp on Craftsman, probably wouldn't have bought it, except it is minty and the seller only wanted $2.00. Then an exposed screw Craftsman that has had kind of a hard life, but thought it was interesting how much more meat there is around where the steel bar enters the dynamic, where it is common on exposed screw vises to crack. This one is really rugged.
Then an Erie Tool works exposed screw vise, probably would have passed, except it still has the often missing cut off tool. and lastly a multi axis tilt/swivel drill press vise, maker unknown, tag is missing.

 

[G-ManBart]

I scored a 4" Craftman/Reed (underlined-C) #5181 for $55 at the FM this morning.
Patent number 2127008 (???)
The tolerances on the slide are so tight that I had to scotchbrite the rust to get it to come fully out. But it bound up on the last 1/2", so I'll need to use a wooden dowel to beat it out.

I was hoping to find a larger one, but this is the first one of this style that I've seen on the wild, so there was no way I was going to let it get away if I could swing it.

Nice find!

 

[G-ManBart]

Temptation has been high this weekend! This just popped up nearby....says 4 1/4" jaws. First I stumble into the unusual Cardinal and now this L.M. & V!

 

[Z3K3Y]

Picked up 2 vises this morning.. a record No. 3 and a unknown.. it says 22a and 22b on the side.. i thought maybe it was an american scale co vise? any help is appreciated.. i plan on getting a new set of jaws made for it . The owner thought it may be a parker?

 

[jakemac]

Free at last, free at last. Vise Almighty, it's free at last !
(now I just need to figure out how to get the split-ring and the stop pin out)

 

[1NRO]

Ah, so it's cropped up before with no answer, I'll try to watch ebay.de for others that might mention brand.

I had a trawl through ebay.de and there is one the same though my efforts to translate to see if the seller mentions the manufacturer fell short

No one recognized the same logo on this either. The HSB is Hibbard-Spencer-Bartlett, the
True Value Hardware chain. I'm guessing it was imported in the 50,s or 60,s

Here's another I've not seen before, at least there's a brand on it this time. Good condition with some original black finish still showing. I'd be interested to hear any info on Vono.

 

[CwazyWabbit]

Nice find. Didn't even realise they'd ever made a No.4. That design, from what CW and I can figure, is the model which came inbetween the later style with bolt through jaws, and the old style Victorian two part body vice. Not too many of that style seem to be about, and it being a No.4 to boot makes it even more of a find.

Having been inspired by Dutch paying more attention to my catalogues than I had I took a more attentive browse and it looks like the bolt through jaw design started between 1913 and 1923.

 

[CwazyWabbit]

Ah, so it's cropped up before with no answer, I'll try to watch ebay.de for others that might mention brand.

Here's another I've not seen before, at least there's a brand on it this time. Good condition with some original black finish still showing. I'd be interested to hear any info on Vono.

Having a Registered Design number would that make it British? That design number was given out between 1910 and 1950

Edit:Seems it was 1922 that the design was registered http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C441439

 

[scooternut]

I scored a 4" Craftman/Reed (underlined-C) #5181 for $55 at the FM this morning.
Patent number 2127008 (???)
The tolerances on the slide are so tight that I had to scotchbrite the rust to get it to come fully out. But it bound up on the last 1/2", so I'll need to use a wooden dowel to beat it out.

I was hoping to find a larger one, but this is the first one of this style that I've seen in the wild, so there was no way I was going to let it get away if I could swing it.

Nice grab Jake. I have the 3 1/2 Craftsman/Reed and it is an outstanding and stout little vise. I keep it on a grinder stand to be carried outside.

 

[dutchgray]

Having been inspired by Dutch paying more attention to my catalogues than I had I took a more attentive browse and it looks like the bolt through jaw design started between 1913 and 1923.

Which makes the No 4 right around 100 years or so.
I saw a nice bigger screwed jaw plate Parkinson on eBay yesterday, on some kind of old stand, it looked nice.

 

[CwazyWabbit]

Have you got a link Dutch?

 

[Fretters]

It's that one in Oxfordshire which first appeared a few months ago, CW. The one on that single column stand with a spout protruding from around the top of the column.


Edit: The link to the listing:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/152096502353

 

[dutchgray]

Yep that's the one, some how I didn't spot that one until yesterday, if I was near I probably would buy it.

 

[Fretters]

Having been inspired by Dutch paying more attention to my catalogues than I had I took a more attentive browse and it looks like the bolt through jaw design started between 1913 and 1923.

The single piece body, screwed jaw one is an old one then.

 

[Fretters]

Yep that's the one, some how I didn't spot that one until yesterday, if I was near I probably would buy it.

Seems to be in a spot where it's awkward for any of us to get through for it. It was listed a few months ago too, but I know I wouldn't be feasibly able to collect it, and CW had the same problem, as I recall. It's there to tempt us all whilst remaining just out of reach.

 

[joe.striper]

Picked up 2 vises this morning.. a record No. 3 and a unknown.. it says 22a and 22b on the side.. i thought maybe it was an american scale co vise? any help is appreciated.. i plan on getting a new set of jaws made for it . The owner thought it may be a parker?

the only other maker that I can think of that uses that spindle screw on front is Simplex. So thats my guess. if it were Parker here are how the jaws would look from the sides...see how the jaw insert sweeps back over the top of the tower?

 

[CwazyWabbit]

Fretters and Dutch at risk of being chastised once more for vice abuse here's a picture of the history of Parkinsons



Bottom is the oldest, then the top one, then second from top, then the second from bottom is the newest style.

Also interesting to note they changed which side the logo was cast on.

That stack from the top is :-

Model F No 7
Model J No 38
Model F No 7
Model F No 8

I would quite like to get a Model F in the 2nd newest design.

 

[Fretters]

Love those vice totems.

 

[jakemac]

CW - Your signpost isn't labeled. Which one points to Narnia ?

 

[CwazyWabbit]

Narnia would definitely be pointed at by the bottom one, something magical about that style

 

[CwazyWabbit]

It seems strange to think the 'Modern' design started between 1913 and 1923 and ran for at least 40 years, but they had 3 other designs prior to that. Company started in 1867 so it took them nearly 50 years to get it right

 

[CwazyWabbit]

yeah sure. heres a couple pictures... i actually broke 3 driver bits in my impact trying to get the other jaw plate off.. its still on there.. i think im going to soak it in something before i ruin the screws and need to extract them.

Another thing I never knew was this doesnt have a floating nut inside.. its one solid cast piece. thats the only vise ive owned like that. is that one way to tell a parkinson? or is there other companies who did that as well.

I checked my Record 00 and Woden 00 and they both have removable nuts.

I had a look at the grip on my Parkinsons Handy jaws and it looks the same as yours. I've never removed them though so I don't know if the say Falcon on the back.

 

[CwazyWabbit]

Love those vice totems.

Just for you I built another totem




And a slightly saner view, I really must get around to sorting that blue one out, the jaws are embarrassing

 

[Outlawmws]

CW - Your signpost isn't labeled. Which one points to Narnia ?

Wouldn't that be a Monarch vise? Or would that one point to the Wonderful Land of Oz?

 

[jakemac]

Ooooooooo, I want this one !!!!
Sadly, it's already past my limit.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Reed-Mfg-1908-Bench-Vise-No-202-/112004788381?hash=item1a1401709d:g:0i4AAOSwq5pXQZ~n

 

[tedsters]

the only other maker that I can think of that uses that spindle screw on front is Simplex. So thats my guess. if it were Parker here are how the jaws would look from the sides...see how the jaw insert sweeps back over the top of the tower?

Joe

Looking at the nice buff work on those jaws is encouraging me to get a buffer together, you sure do good work on all your vises and grinders you have posted

 

[Z3K3Y]

the only other maker that I can think of that uses that spindle screw on front is Simplex. So thats my guess. if it were Parker here are how the jaws would look from the sides...see how the jaw insert sweeps back over the top of the tower?

ah yes i see that.. definetly not like those! maybe later this week ill get a chance to tear it down . maybe ill find some markings somewhere. ill be sure to upload pics if i do

 

[Apache3057]

Here is my recently acquired Craftsman. Not sure of year.