The VISES of Garage Journal

[vintage nut]

A happy family of new little immigrants getting used to life in Canada
Chicago Morgan 130
Early 3" Chicago bullet
3" American scale

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[SRU1436]

I might add, since finding this since, i have picked up the above parker and a Wilton C1 a few weeks ago. Ugh this is addicting....I did have 3 vises from before, all give to me. A Rock Island 542bx, Torco and a Columbian D44.

 

[Mark in Indiana]

Mark: great write up and pictures on that thread and i'll take the time to read it more later when i have a bit more time. you sir have skills and of course a love for old vises that need some or a lot of work. WELL DONE!


cheers

Drives,
Thanks for the compliment. The good thing about this restoration is that there were multiple problems with this vise that are individually common.

 

[bagged89s10]

I just picked up this guy today, my first Parker. I think $100 wasn't a bad deal, every thing works, the jaws are still good.

Great purchase!! I am yet to find a good deal on a Parker with the horn.

 

[rossddvm]

I maybe should be ashamed to admit this, but I know next to nothing about my vice. I never knew people were into vises until I joined here a month ago. I found very little on a google search for K-T vise. Nothing came up here in "search this thread". I have had this vice for maybe 30 years. I believe I bought it on a garage sale, but my memory of that is not clear. It has worked fine for what I ask of it.

I am sure someone here will be able to tell me something.

 

[trijeff]

Wilton C3 $400 Los Angeles area, looks legit. No affiliation with seller.

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/tls/6080172620.html

 

[trijeff]

Wilton C2 $350 San Diego area, looks legit and like one of the really recent models. No affiliation with seller.

https://sandiego.craigslist.org/ssd/tls/6075775382.html

 

[trijeff]

Ratchet handle Athol 714 $150, San Diego area. No affiliation with seller.

https://sandiego.craigslist.org/esd/tls/6077304113.html

 

[Shiftless]

Got my Reed 406 back together again. The BLO finally hardened up after a month in a cold damp garage. If you aren't bothered by less than perfect jaws this is a great vise. I don't know what happened to the original handle. I assume this is a replacement. Curious technique of swedging the handle ends. A vise like this deserves some big balls.

 

[dutchgray]

I know its only a hand vise but I found this Bridgeport at the boot sale today for a £
View media item 69790Not common to find a USA one of these here in the UK, its in nice order as well, 1 1/4" jaws.

 

[topop101]

Got my Reed 406 back together again. The BLO finally hardened up after a month in a cold damp garage. If you aren't bothered by less than perfect jaws this is a great vise. I don't know what happened to the original handle. I assume this is a replacement. Curious technique of swedging the handle ends. A vise like this deserves some big balls.

Shiftless Just a table spoon or so of Japan Drier added to a portion of the BLO would greatly speed up the process.

 

[Outlawmws]

I know its only a hand vise but I found this Bridgeport at the boot sale today for a £
View media item 69790Not common to find a USA one of these here in the UK, its in nice order as well, 1 1/4" jaws.

Not common to find one of those here in the USA!

 

[Outlawmws]

It's an Asian made vise. The big numerals and chrome handles are a dead giveaway.

I maybe should be ashamed to admit this, but I know next to nothing about my vice. I never knew people were into vises until I joined here a month ago. I found very little on a google search for K-T vise. Nothing came up here in "search this thread". I have had this vice for maybe 30 years. I believe I bought it on a garage sale, but my memory of that is not clear. It has worked fine for what I ask of it.

I am sure someone here will be able to tell me something.

 

[Outlawmws]

That is Parker's "Big Bear" Service vise. I'm still looking for one. 4" jaws - IIR they made then 4 and 5 inch, That should be about 89 lbs. I'd love to find a 5 incher.

I just picked up this guy today, my first Parker. I think $100 wasn't a bad deal, every thing works, the jaws are still good.


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[eddieK]

I asked on another thread about the best guess age of this Desmod Stephan

Any ideas?

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[SRU1436]

Outlawmws: yeah its a fattie for sure. I have a Rock Island 52bx with 4.5 inch jaws and a Wilton C1 with 4.5 inch jaws. I would like a get a 5 or 6 inch vise, i think i need one more vise....lol I found a Reed 105R near me and a Reed 205. Both look to be about the same condition and very similar in price. For some reason the Wilton C1 is not speaking to me, maybe Ill unload it and fund one of those Reeds.

Matt

 

[SRU1436]

This Rock Island I got from my Grandfather when he passed away, I always remember it in his shop. Ive had it for several years now and she does well, she was made in March 1945.

 

[dutchgray]

Outlawmws Thanks, I have been wanting a good hand vise to use for a while, I have seen a few but none in a decent condition, it was a nice find buried in a large tote of mostly rusty junk.

Vintage nut
Nice trio of 3" vises. I personally would have the Morgan myself, having a 4 1/2" fixed base already. I like the saw horse, a slight variant of the design I build.

 

[dutchgray]

I recently got hold of a Record catalogue No16 Pocket edition.
I don't recall seeing this in any of CW's scans and certainly haven't seen one for real, or even a rumour of one existing.
View media item 69796One for the Canadians to look out for possibly.

 

[Outlawmws]

VISEs is going to be

 

[drivesitfar]

Vintage: looks like the little trio are waiting for a bath and some repairs and spiffing up. saving the big un for a later date?

thanks again for coming down to lighten my load a little bit and can i ask you to bring a trailer or a bigger truck next time?

seriously a fun couple hours and hope dad likes his stuff too.

Ross: probably made in Taiwan and looks like it could be mounted as a swivel or non swivel. not an expensive or rare vise, but sounds like it's doing it's job. just curious how you are using it since you have i mounted on a 2 by? with a little searching i bet in your area you can find some good old USA made vises that won't break your bank account if you might want an upgrade to your old imported one.

Dutch: so you post a picture of a vise that you'd need to have a bridge crane to move and you bought one you can put in your hand. i'm looking forward to the next posts where you post a catalog page of a little one with a lot of pictures of the actual Record with the 12 inch jaws. OMG that looks huge for an English made vise.

anybody wonder why our grand parents and parents hit vises with sledge hammers. take a look at that ad and it wasn't the only one. of course you are not suppose to hit the vise, but then again accidents happen and mis hits were very common hence so many broken vises.

ALL: i drove 4 hours at 3am to avoid traffic to pick up this little Reed 106 on it's stand where it's been sitting for over 30+ years in a custom fab auto shop. finally a Reed 106 without a missing, replacement or bent to **** handle. in pretty decent shape and just need to file the back of the dynamic a bit and clean it to get it apart and clean and grease and put it to work. since i couldn't get the dynamic out of it to move it and i left it on it's stand it wasn't too hard getting it in my Honda with help from the prior owner, but it when i lifted it out by myself without dropping it there was a little effort on my part involved cause i didn't have my lift available.

 

[dutchgray]

Just because its in the catalogue doesn't mean they are out there, if nobody ordered them they wouldn't have made any, beyond a few for testing I suppose, it wouldn't have been a stock item, its not in the price list, that comes with the catalogue either.

 

[va.grouseman]

A really clean Reed there Drive.---Now that is a ready made set-up.---That's a stout looking ****** to.

 

[joe.striper]

That is Parker's "Big Bear" Service vise. I'm still looking for one. 4" jaws - IIR they made then 4 and 5 inch, That should be about 89 lbs. I'd love to find a 5 incher.

Outlaw, it seems so many of these are soooo beat up by the time we get them. I have a through the bench 4" Parker like this sitting on my shop floor. Its got 4 coats of paint on it but otherwise very clean. PM me if you want pics.

 

[joe.striper]

Drivesitfar, great 6" Reed!

 

[rossddvm]

It's an Asian made vise. The big numerals and chrome handles are a dead giveaway.

Thank you

 

[rossddvm]

Ross: probably made in Taiwan and looks like it could be mounted as a swivel or non swivel. not an expensive or rare vise, but sounds like it's doing it's job. just curious how you are using it since you have i mounted on a 2 by? with a little searching i bet in your area you can find some good old USA made vises that won't break your bank account if you might want an upgrade to your old imported one.

Thank you. It is mounted on the 2 by 12 as a temporary thing, turned much longer than intended. I had it bolted to a solid bench before I moved here. The old garage here had a built in bench with a top that did not seem sturdy enough to bolt the vice to so I bolted to the 2 by 12 scrap to give it a wider more solid base then attached that to the bench. Last summer we tore down the old garage and built a new shop. The vise has been temporarily attached with a couple C clamps to a old craftsman tablesaw that the motor burned out on. This summer I plan to build some proper benches and get it in the new shop. So far it has worked fine for me-I probably do not use it as hard or often as many here do though.

 

[Mark in Indiana]

Drives:
Nice Reed. I'm sure that it was a fun road trip also.

 

[Shiftless]

VISEs is going to be

Yes, he probably hasn't posted since that pic appeared because his keyboard shorted out with all the drool!
Or maybe he found one for sale a thousand miles away and is already on the road.

Drives:
Nice find. Your trip to pick it up is certainly consistent with your GJ handle.
You do realize that to lighten your stash of vises it is counter productive to unload a pile to vn in Canada and then the next day to pick that one up...
(just kidding...I would have done exactly the same thing. That Reed is great!)

Dutchgray:
I too saw the irony in buying a hand vise and posting a pic of the floor vise.

 

[Kayakranger76]

Looking for some help here. Just picked this up at a yard sale with a 3 1/2 fuller for the whopping price of $10.00

The makers mark has been ground off. All I can make out is USA and pat

After pat it's either a 387 or an 837. Or 887 or 837. I know that the patent #

Hoping some one recognizes the casting. Any help is appreciated

 

[drivesitfar]

Kyak: not sure why someone would grind off all the cool Parker casting on your vise, but it is a Parker made in USA vise. nice find. how about a measurement of the jaws width with them closed and maybe some of the Parker experts can tell you what model your vise is?

ALL: thanks for the Kudos and even though this REED 106 isn't as nice as my 4c or my Rock Island 597 i think it might become one of my main users.

leaving at that time of day i drove through about 5 major cities here in the PNW and missed almost all of their traffic. on the way home i saw a road sign saying a crash 30 miles ahead so i called my bride who was working at her desk for an alternate route and she found one to get me around the wreck so i didn't have to sit on the freeway for an hour or two while they cleaned it up. GOOGLE said 5.5 hour drive and i did it in 4 hours down and 4.5 hours coming home and in quite a bit of rain too. i don't speed, but i didn't need to stop for gas or food or anything else.

have a great day everybody and best of luck in your searching for another good vise (vice) for your bench shop or shelf.

 

[Shiftless]

What makes you say Fuller?

Looks a bit PARKER to me...

edit: Looks like Drives was hitting the save and post button while I was finishing my typing.
BTW, Kayak you got one heck of a good deal buying a nice Parker for $10. Already cleaned up and everything! Somebody spent a fair amount of time with a wire wheel on that one.

 

[visedog]

Hello vise experts. What is your opinion on this "unbreakable steel body vise" (8", pipe jaws, 57 lb, made in India). Is it any good?

 

[Kayakranger76]

Thanks everyone for the quick feed back. I got these at a moving yard sale. I even confirmed the price like 3 times before paying. 10 for 2 vises.


Here's measurements. If anyone can guess what model

I included a pic of the fuller

 

[Kayakranger76]

What makes you say Fuller?

Looks a bit PARKER to me...

edit: Looks like Drives was hitting the save and post button while I was finishing my typing.
BTW, Kayak you got one heck of a good deal buying a nice Parker for $10. Already cleaned up and everything! Somebody spent a fair amount of time with a wire wheel on that one.

After I bought it this morning I been cleaning it up

 

[Shiftless]

Even so, you got a great deal on that vise. You could sell the Fuller for $10 as-is if you dont need it and then tell people that you got the nice Parker FREE!
Are you planning to paint it or go with simply rubbing it down with Boiled Linseed Oil for a natural finish?

 

[vintage nut]

Drives, that Reed was definitely a nice looking one. Very solid vise.

The three were just out for pictures yesterday, all the work on them will be done at a later date. The big one will be a while before I get to it

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[Kayakranger76]

Even so, you got a great deal on that vise. You could sell the Fuller for $10 as-is if you dont need it and then tell people that you got the nice Parker FREE!
Are you planning to paint it or go with simply rubbing it down with Boiled Linseed Oil for a natural finish?

Exactly what I plan on....off loading the fuller...keeping the Parker......I'm going to keep the Parker natural metal I think....

Only issue I have found with the Parker is the swivel lock bolt is short.

Anyone know if there parts available for Parkers?

 

[Shiftless]

Good call on the final finish. ( I like BLO to retard rusting) That's what I would have done too.
Why don't you check and see if a common hardware store carriage bolt would work for your lockdown?

 

[Kayakranger76]

Good call on the final finish. ( I like BLO to retard rusting) That's what I would have done too.
Why don't you check and see if a common hardware store carriage bolt would work for your lockdown?

That's what I planned on for the lock. Just was wondering if parts existed


For now I soaked it then wiped it down with clp gun cleaner/protectant I've used that on other tools and keeps the rust away