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Ok so it's not a bullet or even an engineers vise.. it's a woodwork vise. I have a record 52 1/2E that I fitted to my newly built bench and I'm having problems with it.. It's an old one with very little wear that I've had kicking round the shop for years and have just got round to fitting it...

Ok guys time to flex your Google Fu... Today I went on a rummage through the local sale and bought a few things (they are listed in the garage sale thread.) One item that stood out is a small pair of what I took to be circlip pliers..seen here in the photo at the bottom. They turned out to...

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While googling for something I came across a link that I followed to another and so on for an hour or two.. then found this.. Well worth spending some time flicking through it.. they sold everything... https://archive.org/stream/MontgomeryWard1916/Montgomery%20Ward%201916#page/n951/mode/2up

Ok guys here's a strange looking one.. Any info would be great.. it's up for sale after being found in a barn in the UK and will need a repair but it's strange and cheap..seller not responding to message.. no makers name visible so it's all guess work. sale ends in 1 day.

Ok so I don't know what you guys consider as Vintage.. this clamp was invented and made almost exactly 30 years ago..Hope thats old enough.. A small engineering company called Turton Engineering started making them in 1986 and as a student I was lucky enough to be able to visit the Cabinet...

It is a What is it thread but only sort of.. I know now but I'm not saying yet.. I bought it this morning at a boot sale for £1 and the guy selling said his Dad was a plumber and used it a lot.. then he showed me how it works.. It's pretty cool and before today I'd never seen one.. so what...

I've seen all the show us your Vise (Vice), bench, tv ,sound system type threads.. So it got me thinking today. What do you all listen to..? I'm a big Rock fan but in the garage pretty much anything goes. One day it will be Link'in Park the next it could be Mozart or Madness.. Today I have...

A little History first.. My Great Uncle John passed away many years ago when I was young and my Uncle Pete passed to me a holdall half full of old tools that had belonged to John.. As they were spanners/wrenches and I was training to be a cabinet maker and upholsterer I wasn't in any hurry to...

Hello All.. So I'm building a built in compressor alongside the tool cabinets and want to mount the tank and regulated air pressure dials on the face of the cupboard it's going in.. no problems so far.. I planed to just unscrew the dials and add extended airlines to the back of them, sort of...

Hello All.. Thought I'd start my thread to try and keep myself motivated and moving forward with the Garage refit. It's going to take a while to get going as I have lots of structural stuff to do up top before I can really start inside. Back when we bought the house it had the remains of...

Hello All.. My names Lee and I'm a Tool-a-hollic.. I live in a little village in the Snowdonia national park called Llanberis, North Wales , UK. My hobbies include keeping my Landrover Discovery on the road, fixing my sons Euro box Arosa, messing with the electrickery on the wifes renault...