Recent content by ScopinBill

Thanks for the info Chris and I’m absolutely floored by your offer. I’ll definitely take you up on that when I start the restoration and will be sure to pay it forward. Bill

Wow! Didn’t expect to hear that given that there’s no brand anywhere on it - at least not that I could find. Thanks so much for the info! I guess this will be my first vise restoration project... and likely the beginning of my transition from vise user to vise collector :) The red paint appears...

Hey folks, I picked up a “free” vise today - it was bolted to the top of an old Vidmar cabinet I’m going to refurbish. I don’t know anything about the vise and I’m not even qualified to call myself a vise novice yet. It appears to be very well built (maybe comparable to my Yost 33C, but...

The portaband stand is really easy to move and yet stays put while cutting. The pedestal is 4” x 1/8” wall round tubing and the disc is 24” x 1/4” thick. That was the first stand I built. After that, I switched to 5” x 3/16” square tubing for the grinder and vise. I prefer the beefier look of...

Thanks! I used harrow discs as bases for stands for my grinder/multitool and portaband. Both work great. The discs are 3 1/2” high at the center and slope down to zero which makes it really easy to get up close - plus it’s basically impossible to stub my toes on them :) If you have any sort of...

After reading this, I ran out to the garage and loosened it a couple turns. Wasn’t very tight, but better to let those jaws breath a bit.

Thanks! The Yost 33C was an Amazon Warehouse deal so the price was definitely right and it arrived with zero damage. It’s really well finished and the jaws line up better than any other vise I’ve seen - which, admittedly isn’t that many. I just finished the stand, so I haven’t used it for any...

This is my first post, so please bear with me. Long time lurker and recent vise addict. Picked up a Yost 33C and built a stand for it. The base is a 24” harrow disc from Agrisupply. Sealed that off on the bottom with some 1/4” plate and added a 5” x 3/16” wall square post and a 3/8” plate on...