Recent content by madpear

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but I had the exact same problem as OP: self-levelling stuff would just seep through the rod. After the first pass, I had your same problem and had to pull up all the "twisted rope" and re-do. On the second pass, I used two layers: one was the twisted rope...

Thanks RTM. That's not unreasonable to infer. Are there more data or photos I could gather to aid in the identification? As an aside, the owner of these tools was a machinist for Control Data by trade and all the tools we've kept of his have been basically solid steel tanks that will outlive...

Many thanks for the reply even when I had no images to go by RTM! I would say it shares traits with both of those, but neither exactly. There seem to be slight differences with the bolt pattern positioning on one and on the other it does NOT have a JET stamping anywhere on it, just the sticker...

I don't know why, but the images are appearing to upload successfully, but then showing as blank.

My dad is giving me his dad's old vise. I don't have it with me at the moment but I do have a couple pictures of it which may or may not be enough to ID it. It is about 9" across in width, and 17" long in the state of extension it is in the image. All it says is 4 on it, and I confirmed the...