Recent content by Erikwis

I found the picture from the person I bought mine from (he did nothing but win the auction). It looks pretty sad. I paid him $20 for it. https://hibid.com/lot/72122-70858-16968/8-3-4--babco-tools-390-bench-vise

Wow that had a very hard life

First could be used in a vise to mill small round stock. Gang setup.

I have in my garage a single stage 60 gallon but in having all sorts of trouble with finding a good dessicant air dryer. I have an unlimited supply of dessicant but the ones I see are so small. If I could find one that holds at least two cups I'd be better off

Yes I have zero play

yes it was free to me. was thrown in with a box of scrap it is a bit stiff though. i maybe used the wrong oil. i thought #4 way oil was right. but there is a lot of friction needed to turn the handle

Basement vise

Would you guess as to what decade it was made in? I couldn't find any catalog mentions

i could not find any info on the maker of this but it originally had a swivel base. long gone. made new jaws for it from a2 9" wide jaws