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The tradesman 1750 vise was the first product to roll off their line in Chicago when they opened their doors in April 1940. The tradesman vise, with the exception of WWII production halting and retooling to aid the Allied effort, has been continuously in production. I came by this information...

It is rare for me to find an object like this ratchet about which there seems to be very little information online. This is one of these cases. This Thread is the only place on the internet where I have seen one of these or something close enough to it you know it's from the same manufacturing...

I believe I may have blown the warranty date theory or the production run startup/company inception slap out of the pool, because I have just opened up a 5" 1750 by way of hours of heat, pressure, and sweat... and a few weeks of PB Blaster to the joints daily to warm her up. Got her down to just...