Recent content by MendoRob

Apparently there are a number of YouTube videos on how to make one yourself, but I feel blessed to have this classic one!

Wow that’s a beautiful piece of kit. Any idea how old that one is? It shows three petals, I guess that’s fast, slow, and release?

From your naked picture, it appears that the piston rod is fixed to the back part with four pins, while the hydraulic cylinder is the traveler built into the slider part of the vice…

Can you show detail of the model number?

I have never pulled mine apart, although it does leak some hydraulic fluid, and I was thinking to take it apart and bring it to hydraulic place to replace seals, but I think this is the same construction as mine. I know there’s a long spring in there, I can hear it make a twangy sound sometimes...

Well that looks a lot like my cool old hydraulic bench vice, thanks to dear old dad, but I can’t be sure from the scale here, yours might be bigger than mine. Do you have a length nose to tail? I remembered one time dad made tightening handles from wood and put them on with magnets as a joke...

Sorry it’s model 604, or maybe 1604

My father picked up this bench vice sometime in the early 70s. It’s a Colombian model 104, but what’s unusual about it is that it is hydraulically operated. When we got it it was just the vice with a little pipe stub sticking out the bottom. My father and I fabricated a hydraulic unit for it...