Recent content by Alpowa

Yeah, hard to say without more photos or inspection. I'd give half of that for the cabinet, tho, if it was in my driveway. That steadyrest goes for $300 all by itself if it's not broken. You might get that if it is broken.

I wouldn't say 'quite a bit' of tooling, but it is a toolroom model with a taper attachment, etc. -- looks like it's still got the steady rest with it. Three phase is not problem -- You just need to swap the motor to a 1hp 110/220. I just repowered my old 10L and it was a very simple job...

THAT'S a combination vise! I have my pipe vise bolted to a short piece of 4" angle iron so I can clamp it in my Columbian when I need it. That said, I am very fond of gear that requires 'no additional setup' -- like the one pictured. By the way, that's a sweet pedestal. The great thing...

I just realized that I can do this without removing the handle from the screw! I can chuck it up and just let the screw dangle! That is a very handsome vise, the 8" Prentiss Bulldog. You've done a good job setting it up for display - or serious use.

The links are my poor attempt to illustrate with photography; You can see how the jaw is longer on one end, hole bored off center, etc. The angle of the slide in the dyn. jaw is hard to see without sizing it up on the bench. I suppose I could get a rule in there for perspective, but it's...

C2 from a pawnshop just before xmas; Just a moderate cleanup job. I still have to run a wire wheel into the slide tube to remove the loose scale in there. I scraped the paint in a few places out of curiosity. I went back ready to offer $200, it was marked $350. The guy cut me off to give me...

A good topic; I find most benches put a heavy vise much too high. I like a small, portable vise on the bench, and a large vise on a pedestal. Your arms, and teeth, will last longer if the thing in the vise is a little lower, in relation to your body mass. If your bench space is at a...

This vise might be the jewel of your shop. It's an older model of the Peddinghaus 'Matador' sold by Ridgid. I read most of this thread, and I own the modern version of this vise. It joins my 4" Columbian, two 4.5" Craftsmans, a broken Morgan 4.5", and several machine/drill vises to 6". This...