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    grinder

    Tig braze the missing teeth and then file to shape :)
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    The VISES of Garage Journal

    Hi Dutch, Now that's a nice piece, where did you find that hiding?
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    The VISES of Garage Journal

    Here's a Fortis offset
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    The VISES of Garage Journal

    Haven't bought a vise in a few years, then my white whale turned up :) Won't get a chance to look at it properly till this evening. (The swivel base is back to front )
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    Any Advice on a Good Cheater Pipe?

    Vice handles (at least on Record vices) are designed to bend before the vice explodes, they are described as a fusible link in some of the older adverts. They bend very easily with a cheater bar on them.
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    The VISES of Garage Journal

    You can also find the whole 1957 Woden catalogue that includes your vice on archive.org https://archive.org/details/WodenToolsCatalogueNo.571957
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    Tools that rarely get used anymore

    Don't know what you are on about ..... I use mine as a bench all the time [emoji14] Sent from my SM-G925F using Tapatalk
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    The VISES of Garage Journal

    I too have one of those ... yours is much cleaner than mine and I'm ashamed to say I have yet to clean it up even though I have had it quite a few months. I believe someone on this forum (perhaps VA Grouseman) did come up with a name for the manufacturer but I have embarrassingly forgotten it...
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    The VISES of Garage Journal

    From 1913 catalogue (also in the 1923 and 1930 catalogue). Peter Wright was one of the firms that made them.
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    The VISES of Garage Journal

    Turns out that Record floor vice is a lightweight.
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    The VISES of Garage Journal

    It's a wear thing, bronze is often used as a bearing material.
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    The VISES of Garage Journal

    It looks similar to the big Woden .....
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    The BROKEN imported vises of Garage Journal

    DIF: If you want to heat and beat on a vise then use a Blacksmiths vise, that's what they were built for. They will bend and not break, when they bend chuck 'em on the forge till they are red and bend 'em back again and everyone is happy. There is a vise for every job out there ;)
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    Vise Info Thread

    The Handy and Perfect Vises are ranges that were designed and made by Parkinson as opposed to being part of a buy out. Samsonia was the brand name that Parkinson sold their cast steel (as opposed to cast iron) vises under, I don't believe it was part of a buy out just a sub brand. The Parkinson...
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    Vise Info Thread

    They look to be my handy work :) If you go to the link in my signature you will find PDF's with better quality versions of those pages as well as them throughout the different years. Those are from a Buck and Hickman catalogue, there are also Record and Parkinson catalogues on that link...
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