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Great, thanks.

Does anyone recognize this logo cast on the side of this large vise I just picked up? It says Chicago Heavy Duty and has a lightning bolt in the middle of it but I can’t find anything out about it. It probably weighs between 50-70 lbs. Thanks in advance for any help! -John

That's what I'll do then. What is a fair price do you think that will sell it quickly, any idea? $50 maybe?

Free?? Anyone?

Does anyone one live in the Los Angeles are and want mine for cheap? I just don't have room in my 10'x12' workshop and I don't need another project. Let me know. -John

To answer a previous question, I don't know what your the top box is. How do I know or where do I look? Thanks for the parafin wax suggestion. I'll do that instead I guess. Just need to see if I have any.

Lol, that's funny. It's filthy though and I had to pull all of the camo carpet out of it as the bottom rubber parts were totally deteriorated. Does anyone know if that "carpet" is original? Seemed like it was. I took the handles off last night, soaked them in Evaporust and lightly ScotchBrited...

My neighbor put this rolling Craftsman at the curb a few days ago so I took it. It is filthy but cleanable and usable. It had a rusty but nice old pair of USA made tin snips and a nice USA made torque wrench in it too, which I cleaned up and greased. Any recommendations for greasing the drawer...

Ha ha, small a$$ hammer to the rescue. Little hammer with a rubber and plastic end. Didn’t take much, I just couldn’t yank it hard enought to pop it loose.

I got it out!

i can't for the life of me figure out how to remove the little drill chuck from the tail stock. Does anyone know? Thanks.

I get it, I thought he meant the little table on the front of the machine.... Still a little expensive I think.

That's cool but I'd agree on the kind of spendy bit. It doesn't even come with the table...

Do you guys recommend a good way of cleaning the ways ? Maybe my little granite plate and some 800 - 1000 grit sand paper?

Man I'd love to find a little mill. I'd prefer a vertical one but I wouldn't pass on a horizontal either! That's a beauty.

Dang! Two scores in a row. I paid more than both of those combined, not by a ton though.

Thank you for all that. My destroyed old belt simply says: TRUFLEX 1360 Made In U.S.A. 8 I'll look into the 3L. So they are measured as if you were to cut one, stretch it out and measure end to end? Just want to make sure I understand. Thank you!

I took it apart and there was a solid, dried up chunk of grease keeping the threads from engaging, ha ha. I turns better now than it did two days ago when i got it. Thanks for the tips. Also, I took some denatured alcohol and a rag and the paint is cleaning up a ton. Just years of oil & grease...

Great, I'll keep that in mind when I get to figuring that out at some point. Does anyone know why the cross feed threaded shaft wont go back into the brass cross feed nut at the end under the little chip plate? Do I need to take something apart before it will start to thread back in? Thanks guys.

Thanks, I'll look into the barrel switch. Sounds like a good idea. It's okay to run this motor in reverse I presume? Yeah, the tail stock modification is as smooth as it could be. The gentleman that owned it forever was an engineer/scientist at NASA, JPL, and a few others. That handle has three...