Recent content by chippuller

Hey Drivesit, Well I managed to make my first post several weeks ago, about my Erie Tool Works "Empire25" vise, and actually responded a couple of times with some additional pics. Unfortunately, I have spent the last two weeks trying to find my original posts!?!? How in the world do you...

CRS I started cleaning up my #25 and the more i saw, the more I am convinced that someone working at the Eire Tool Works pulled this puppy out of the scrap bin. In addition to the casting defects I showed in my original post, there are just so many areas of excess surface porosity to have...

CRS Sounds like another vote for green as the original color. Thanks for sending that ad, but now I know I didn't get as good a deal as I thought.... I paid twice as much as it cost new!?!? ;-)

CRS, That sure is nice! Good inspiration for me... I'll have to get out the grinder and files. A couple of questons... - is the surface that sits on the bench machined flat on yours, or is it a cast surface with the parting line flash ground off? - were there any parting line flash on...

VA, Sounds like good advice whether or not I plan on making 'senior member'..... :)

Drivesit, Well, I am one of the world's best procrastinators!?!? LOL. I thought it was welding splatter at first, but when I looked closer, it looks just like some of the crappy castings I have made in my backyard foundry! That's my plan... grind off the ugly stuff. I don't want to...

I just picked up this vise at a garage sale the other day...guess I have the disease too... more vices than benches to put them on, but this was unique and only $10!?!? I've seen a few posts on similar vises (Erie Tool Works, Empire #25) and also found a history if Erie Tool Works...