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LES is short for Leipziger Eisen- und Stahlwerke, which was the east german state owned company that took over Meier & Weichelt after the war. Your vise is the "modern" variant, you can see the streamlined casting. It's not a bad thing, they open a bit wider I think and feel like they added some...

You can get a siderophore based solution (these are biological chelating agents) which you dilute (say 1:5) yourself, it costs around as much as evaporust, but with diluting it you get like "buy one gallon, get 5 gallons for free".

Here is a 100 year old cast iron "orange" vise for you ;)

Everyone and their mother made these clampers (and not only small ones), don't bother with them. WABECO "optimized" the vise design over the years for "simpler design, less money" and invented the made-of-bent-and-welded-together-steel-plates vise in 1984 (actually patented the jaw insert and...

The screw that is loose on the first picture is a cosmetic cover screw which allows one to access the real screws that bolt the bottom plate to the workbench. The handle actually goes to the left side. Setting the proper "tightness" happens with a big center bolt only reachable from the bottom...

That looks like a modern style LES HS00 watchmakers vise. The old style from the pre WW2 days had fake ribs where the bigger models have their bolts to hold the steel bars in (only HS000 - HS 1/2 use a dove tail, all models bigger use steel bars and inverted lead screws). The modern style is...

Atorn, Orion etc are all in-house branded versions of the same vise, just a different tool company selling them. Leinen Junior (sold by Hoffmann group) is the same (WODEX is an exact clone of this Leinen Junior). They all come from the same spot, the latest version don't even have cast in logos...

They look 100% like the York Lux models. Probably cast by York. Their swivel bases are very poorly made. The vise itself is ok.

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/the-vises-of-garage-journal.44782/post-9021762

You should have asked the seller to ship it with the swivel base of the messed up one he/she is still offering for a higher price (the jaw shelves on the silver one are broken, the vise isn't really worth anything). Maybe you can ask if they could sell it to you separately and also tell them...

this is actually a patent by Mr. Dohnal of York fame. Why Mr. Vogl applied it using his name instead of in name of Mr. Dohnal is everybodies guess but it doesn't shine the best light onto him. Especially with copying the other York patent, too. In the UK it was applied in the name of Mr. Dohnal...

thanks for the info. Maybe some letters are hiding underneath the paint. Won‘t touch it for quite a while, though. Gotta ship some vises, UPS has some new interesting volume based shippig options over here that I want to exploit to ship some heavy stuff for reasonable prices before they change...

These triangular vises on the 2nd picture are steel vises (like the peddinghaus). They look like blacksmith vises made bench vise and you see them now and then in germany. I have an old Westfalia catalog where they are sold.

it's a Peddinghaus Record first gen with dust wipers.

Hi. I got this vise recently. I wonder who made it. Inside was covered in greasy gunk, so the everything including the swivel jaw is in perfect condition. Cast in jaws inserts are not 100% flat, though.