This adv. points to it being in the 761 line of Stanley vises, if not user modified.
Can be clamped, screwed or bolted to a bench.
akasrick
You have my curiosity here, Fierljeppen. The only explicit Wilton 5-Year Guarantee production era that I am aware of is ~1954 through ~1961, when keys were explicitly stamped with a date 5 years in advance, but always accompanied by "GUAR. EXP.", identifying the date without any doubt or interpretation required as a guarantee expiration date postdated 5 years in advance of its production, i.e., vises stamped "GUAR EXP. 4-59" through GUAR. EXP. 7-66" made between April 1954 and July 1966.
You have my curiosity here, Fierljeppen. The only explicit Wilton 5-Year Guarantee production era that I am aware of is ~1954 through ~1961, when keys were explicitly stamped with a date 5 years in advance, but always accompanied by "GUAR. EXP.", identifying the date without any doubt or interpretation required as a guarantee expiration date postdated 5 years in advance of its production, i.e., vises stamped "GUAR EXP. 4-59" through GUAR. EXP. 7-66" made between April 1954 and July 1966.
bluebolt's database doesn't have a large sample of vises made in the 70's, but of the dozen or so it includes, the date stamp is not accompanied by the "GUAR. EXP." mark. So, knowing my respect for your research, I know you won't take this as a challenge, but I am curious about the backup on your theory. Ads? Catalog? Inquiring minds want to know!
Makes perfect sense to me! Thanks. I knew there had to be a story there!
Makes perfect sense to me! Thanks. I knew there had to be a story there!
Note, though, that this doesn't negate or change the research and information on the guarantees and the stamps on keys prior to that (i.e., the 40's through the 60's) and how to interpret those. That empirical data (98% of bluebolt's database) is also backed up by ads and other documents that Outlaw and I found.
Makes perfect sense to me! Thanks. I knew there had to be a story there!
Note, though, that this doesn't negate or change the research and information on the guarantees and the stamps on keys prior to that (i.e., the 40's through the 60's) and how to interpret those. That empirical data (98% of bluebolt's database) is also backed up by ads and other documents that Outlaw and I found.
My 2¢:
A case were both of you are correct and DO NOT contradict.
Just wanted to throw this in:
From https://www.wiltontools.com/us/en/company/history/
In 1970’s Wilton had discovered the retail market needed a quality vise line and opened an additional manufacturing facility in Winchester, TN for production of smaller less expensive vise to meet the needs of the hobbist and DIYer. Simultaneously in the Winchester facility, Wilton began manufacturing a metalworking machinery line. The first products in this category were drill presses and bandsaws.
Looks like Wilton got busier in the 1970's. Makes sense to eliminate the GAUR EXP - tooling costs go down, labor costs go down (no more need for the stampings or and time consumed by the stampings goes down). After all, something has to pay the merger costs.
Spelling errors within the quoted text are the responsibility of the website.
PghJKB
Just for the record, we weren't arguing. Fierljeppen stated an interesting and novel theory about 70's key stamps being heretofore unrecognized 5-year postdated guarantee markings, a theory that I had never seen before, including the Wilton Dating thread. As I pointed out, and as Fierljeppen recognizes here...
...his findings don't contradict the conclusions we have made about the 40's and 50's stamps being production dates and the -59 to -66 'EX. GUAR' stamps being '54 to '61 vises. His observations and theory extend our knowledge base about the 70's vises and stamps. The "gap" you are probably thinking of, Old Radar, is no Wilton vises with "-54" to "-61" stampings. That's because vises in that period were postdated with 5-year guarantee dates.
It sort of ran out of steam after it reached 'statistical mass', if I could coin a phrase, allowing a fairly large sample size to draw conclusions. You could reach out to bluebolt. I'm not sure my copy is current. Maybe he'll agree to add your vises. Or maybe, if there's enough interest, someone else could take over duties filling it out with more 70's vises.
No offense taken. I just get in enough scrapes where I want to make sure a non-scrape doesn't count against me!
