Recent content by Chris03

This might actually be why the nut mechanism was only threaded on one side and not the other, interesting... Still doesn't really solve my problem, but I at least i know that's probably not it.

Thanks for the help! Yeah, I'm not sure either. Even though I don't know much about vises, the mechanisms seem basic and I'm not sure how that locking nut would stay stationary.

Ah, my bad! Here ya go!

Here's where it sits inside the body. I can't tell if that screw in the bottom is just to hold the swivel plate on, or if it's supposed to go through and hold that nut assembly some how?

Alright, so I got it all apart and took a few more pictures. This thing has way more moving parts than I thought it would. But it looks like there's some threads that are stripped (last picture), unless it's supposed to be like that for some reason? One side of the, not sure what you call it...

Thanks, I thought I remembered looking at that and didn't really see a thread hole for that bolt to go, but I'll look again later. Any idea what decade this vise is from?

Thanks for the quick reply. Are you talking about the screw that is shown in the last picture coming up from the bottom? I looked around at everything before I bolted it down last night and was wondering why the piece that the actual screwing mechanism was going into was moving around, seems...

Hey guys, picked this bench vise up off craigslist, got it home and it will close and tighten when you rotate the rod clockwise, but when you rotate it counter-clockwise the jaws don't move at all. After a rotation or two counter-clockwise something does "release" and I can manually drag the...