My New Chas. Parker 824!

[JunkYardDawg]

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I met my first GJ member today, Joe.Striper. What a great guy, and what fabulous restoration work he does on vises! I made a deal with him on one of his recent projects, this Parker 824.



I'm giving my workshop a total facelift, and building a new table, and when I saw Joe's work - well I just had to have it. Joe is the man!

Hey Joe! Maybe next time will be the time for a new anvil?

 

[dr_clyde]

Nice vise. What are you going to mount it to?

 

[joe.striper]

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I met my first GJ member today, Joe.Striper. What a great guy, and what fabulous restoration work he does on vises! I made a deal with him on one of his recent projects, this Parker 824.



I'm giving my workshop a total facelift, and building a new table, and when I saw Joe's work - well I just had to have it. Joe is the man!

Hey Joe! Maybe next time will be the time for a new anvil?

Like this #87 lb Hay Budden I just bought?

It was nice meeting you as well. Too bad about your hand

 

[JunkYardDawg]

Nice vise. What are you going to mount it to?

I have a very nice 36"x72" worktable made by me from 2"x2"x1/4" steel square tube. Currently, it has a pretty wood top, but I'm going to put a 1/2" steel plate top on it. It will be my main bench for motorcycle engine teardown/rebuilds. Joe's vise will be the cherry on top.

 

[JunkYardDawg]

Like this #87 lb Hay Budden I just bought?

It was nice meeting you as well. Too bad about your hand

Oooh! Me want. Give me a holler when you get her done, and lets make a deal.

T'was good to meet you too. When I told my wife that you said that your first job was a bike mechanic, she just laughed. I have a theory that those of us who form interests around certain things, tend to share the same paths in life.

The hand is good. Glad I didn't have to help you get that vise out of the truck!

 

[bagged89s10]

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I met my first GJ member today, Joe.Striper. What a great guy, and what fabulous restoration work he does on vises! I made a deal with him on one of his recent projects, this Parker 824.







I'm giving my workshop a total facelift, and building a new table, and when I saw Joe's work - well I just had to have it. Joe is the man!



Hey Joe! Maybe next time will be the time for a new anvil?

Hey that vise looks familiar. It's the best built 4" vise I've seen. I saw it in Joe's shop while he was working on it. Great restore Joe did and it's awesome that another GJ member owns it now. Post picture of your bench with vise when it's done.

 

[JunkYardDawg]

Hey that vise looks familiar. It's the best built 4" vise I've seen. I saw it in Joe's shop while he was working on it. Great restore Joe did and it's awesome that another GJ member owns it now. Post picture of your bench with vise when it's done.

Hey thanks for the kind words, Bagged. I'm still feeling pretty lucky to have finagled this vise away from Joe. This will be the cherry on top of my center worktable project. As soon as I get out of this cast, I'll get on top of that and do a write-up for GJ with pics.

 

[pmat]

Hi,

Can you tell me what the Chas Parker 824 weighs? Thinking about going to look at one I saw on CL. 4 1/2 inch jaws?

It's an 824 1/2 not sure what the 1/2 means....

Anyone have a rough idea of the value?

Thanks,
Paul

 

[Cope]

Hi,

Can you tell me what the Chas Parker 824 weighs? Thinking about going to look at one I saw on CL. 4 1/2 inch jaws?

It's an 824 1/2 not sure what the 1/2 means....

Anyone have a rough idea of the value?

Thanks,
Paul

103# is the weight. 824 1/2 has 4 1/2" wide jaws, 824 has 4".

http://scuttle.dayid.org/wiki/index.php/Charles_Parker_Vise

 

[pmat]

103# is the weight. 824 1/2 has 4 1/2" wide jaws, 824 has 4".



http://scuttle.dayid.org/wiki/index.php/Charles_Parker_Vise

Thanks for the link, very helpful. I went to look the Parker 824 1/2 that was on CL. The vise looked to be in good shape (jaws etc.) except that one of the back corners of the slide was broken off, maybe a 1 1/2 inch corner gone. The picture in CL did not show the missing corner. The seller argued that the vise worked fine and the missing chunk had no effect on the vise. Two questions: what could cause that damage? And what's it worth. Sorry I didn't take a picture.....


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[G-ManBart]

Thanks for the link, very helpful. I went to look the Parker 824 1/2 that was on CL. The vise looked to be in good shape (jaws etc.) except that one of the back corners of the slide was broken off, maybe a 1 1/2 inch corner gone. The picture in CL did not show the missing corner. The seller argued that the vise worked fine and the missing chunk had no effect on the vise. Two questions: what could cause that damage? And what's it worth. Sorry I didn't take a picture.....


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Hard to say what could have caused the damage....maybe it got dropped on the corner of the slide, or something like that.

You could certainly still use it the way it is, or you could shorten the slide and screw to get rid of the damaged section. If you shorten it all you're really losing is that 1.5" of opening capacity, which is pretty generous on a 924 1/2 to start with, so it wouldn't be the end of the world.

I just sold a very clean 824 about two months ago for $125 and I think that was a bit on the low side. I got it for less from a young guy who had no idea what it was...think I paid $75.

I will say that the 824 (and the 824 1/2) is in many ways better than the 900 series they were replaced with....big difference in weight.

 

[pmat]

Hard to say what could have caused the damage....maybe it got dropped on the corner of the slide, or something like that.



You could certainly still use it the way it is, or you could shorten the slide and screw to get rid of the damaged section. If you shorten it all you're really losing is that 1.5" of opening capacity, which is pretty generous on a 924 1/2 to start with, so it wouldn't be the end of the world.



I just sold a very clean 824 about two months ago for $125 and I think that was a bit on the low side. I got it for less from a young guy who had no idea what it was...think I paid $75.



I will say that the 824 (and the 824 1/2) is in many ways better than the 900 series they were replaced with....big difference in weight.

Thanks, I didn't think of shortening the slide and screw. I was getting it to use in my shop and though the missing chunk would not really matter except that I would see it..... I rarely need more than a few inches of capacity. Still he's asking 250 and would only come down to 150 which is too high in a way, but still a far superior vise than anything you could buy new for 150. I may have another run at it if it's still hanging around on cl in January.


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