Recent content by kwoswalt99

I’m pretty sure you press the report post button.

I’ve never him do a braze repair more involved than a slide crack. I’m sure I haven’t seen every vise he’s done and if he has then he can post some pics. I’m not trying to insult him he makes some good vise jaws, but I will say you guys are very easily impressed.

Yes... obviously there are exceptions... probably why I mentioned one! As a general rule people won’t buy broken ****. Even Kevin has limits of what he will try to repair. I’ve only seen him do slide repairs maybe once or twice, and nothing more advanced than that from what I’ve seen.

Yeah, that’s kinda my point too no one here buys broken vises, except for joestriper.;)

I’ve never seen a broken Columbian machinist vise. I’ve seen them with the slides spread out from being hammered on, and slides bent from having a pipe wrench put on the screw, but never broken. Plus they are one of the most common vises out there, next to parker, and I think that says a lot...

I can’t upload them much bigger the file size is limited. I don’t have time to resize and upload them individually. If you wanted them I’d probably have to email you them. I just save them whenever I see one, been doing it for a year maybe.

I’m not trying to do a scientific study. I don’t really care how they broke, that wasn’t the point in saving the pictures. The point was to have justification for why I like columbians. Everybody likes to hate on them because they’re lightweight, even though they’re probably the strongest vise...

Here u go. VA don’t cry. If anyone has anymore pictures to add to the collection I’ll take em, all brands are welcome.

Hopefully it was one of the steel ones, they are good vises.

Ok let me rephrase that, all models of parker have that problem. You may have only seen one, but I’ve literally seen hundreds, and that’s just parker.

All Parkers have this problem, but most don’t have the steel bar.

Yeah the slide was split in half.

Why are you restating my point...

I know, why are you so resistant to new ideas?!

I can think of two common brands that could withstand being dropped on their slide: Desmond/Simplex and Columbian. Simplex because they used solid steel slides, and Columbian because the whole vises are malleable/ductile iron depending on the year. I’m not sure what makes you think steel is...