Maui
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How big is your Columbian, and what is the model number?
Biggest bench vise ever made?
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HydeEmpire
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it is a C.A.T. 108 same as pictured i posted a link to mine is the vises of garage journal thread i **** at up loading pics here if some one can point me as into how i even made a photo bucket and just a little stupid box with a ? in it appears so i just put a link in. the dimensions are as follow and are within a 1/4"
8.75" jaw width
14" tall (not including the inch or so lip that hangs off the bench)
31.5" full length closed
28" length closed with out the handle assembly (the bar and what it goes into)
Jarhead0408
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Good lord have mercy! Almost 3 feet long CLOSED?!?!?!?!?
Sucker is a back breaker isn't it?
Sucker is a back breaker isn't it?
HydeEmpire
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HAHAHAHAHA GOT IT!!! YAY
hopefully this works
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HydeEmpire
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i don't know i can't nudge it, let alone pick it up. now i would imagine if i were to lay down and let someone lower it on my back with a hoist..... yes it would be a back breaker. LMAO i just wanna get a darn pic so you can see it then i will tell you how i got it the last 22 miles home(from work to home). you all will call me a liar.
can anyone see the pic???? or just a stupid box with a "?" in it?
PugetDude
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...just a stupid box with a "?" in it.
HydeEmpire
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HydeEmpire
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i know i have to build one lol
HydeEmpire
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if you look closely you can see the beast i had to bring her home in, yes its a nissan sentra. LOL
the first picture shows how big it really is, the last two make it look like a regular vise
HydeEmpire
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should be fixed now, but thank you
PugetDude
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Pics are up.
Awesome find... I'll trade you a 4" Reed with a broken nut and a bent screw for it...and maybe even throw in a couple of HF coupons.
HydeEmpire
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Pics are up.
Awesome find... I'll trade you a 4" Reed with a broken nut and a bent screw for it...and maybe even throw in a couple of HF coupons.
sounds good i just have to charge $2 per pound for shipping arrangement fees and then you can pic it up
xxaler
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sounds good i just have to charge $2 per pound for shipping arrangement fees and then you can pic it up
We need more pictures. No excuses!
HydeEmpire
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HydeEmpire
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i attempted to open it but with it not being mounted it was a little difficult to say the least. i hope to start cleaning it up soon and get some better pictures.
Awesome Vise!!! I have a NOS Starrett 926 non swivel. Love the build quality, high precision for such a large vise!I've posted this already, but not in this thread. Starrett Athol 926. This thing weighs about 250lbs. Paid $200 for it with the stand.
wrenchguy
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a new found model number??? "No.108 1/2"
Maui
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That Columbian weighs 268 lbs....
Maui
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HydeEmpire
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i guess i haven't done a lot of research on it yet but i does seem a CAT. No.108 is easier to find than a CAT. No.108 1/2. that is just what i have learned from looking up photos of them.
HydeEmpire
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i don't mean to be rude or sound ignorant i was just curious as to where that number came from? didn't know if it was a decipher code threw a model number or just maybe you have weighed one?
wrenchguy
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i don't mean to be rude or sound ignorant i was just curious as to where that number came from? didn't know if it was a decipher code threw a model number or just maybe you have weighed one?
heres 1 reference visers use,
http://scuttle.dayid.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Nice find i am curious of how much it weighs, thats the first 108 1/2 i have seen. gonna need a good stand for that vise
Maui
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Post #12 in this link reads,
"The Columbian 'heavy chipping vises', advertised as 'A careful study of conditions in railroad shops and steel mills has led to the design of this vise for extra heavy duty work. It is practically indestructible'. (note the 'practically'....I remember seeing a broken one in a scrap yard, some years ago, and wondering just what sort of men worked in the shop where that vise had been used)
The Columbian 'heavy chipping vises' were the No. 107, listed as 7" jaw, 11-1/2" opening, weight 218lbs., and the No. 108-1/2, listed as 8-1/2" jaw width, 13" opening, and weighing 268lbs. A rather serious tool, that......"
http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/antique-machinery-history/large-vise-115742/
Maui
"The Columbian 'heavy chipping vises', advertised as 'A careful study of conditions in railroad shops and steel mills has led to the design of this vise for extra heavy duty work. It is practically indestructible'. (note the 'practically'....I remember seeing a broken one in a scrap yard, some years ago, and wondering just what sort of men worked in the shop where that vise had been used)
The Columbian 'heavy chipping vises' were the No. 107, listed as 7" jaw, 11-1/2" opening, weight 218lbs., and the No. 108-1/2, listed as 8-1/2" jaw width, 13" opening, and weighing 268lbs. A rather serious tool, that......"
http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/antique-machinery-history/large-vise-115742/
Maui
wrenchguy
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thanks 4 the read Maui
demoman
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Copilot - I bought that ad off ebay years ago just because I had never seen it before. Somewhere on here are the patent drawings. I have a man in North Dakota who claims to have a vise that big that came out of a ship yard. I do not know if it is possible that it could be the one but maybe!!!! I am going to look at it next week while on vacation.
HydeEmpire
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From another posting here on Garage Journal:
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=228090
700 pounds?!
so far this is the biggest vise i have seen, its a hollands 19 if i remember correctly the hollands 18 has 8 wide jaws and they made a 3 footed one which is 3 bolt holes to hold it down and 4 footed one which weighs 325# and the 4 footed hollands 19 is over 340# and has 9in jaws, I was at the other members shop and seen the 18, heres a pic of the 19
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is there a known example of this anywhere?
From another posting here on Garage Journal:
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=228090
This, I mean
oldldh
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oldldh
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Old stuff...
Needs a bump...
Every now and then...
Like me, for instance...
Needs a bump...
Every now and then...
Like me, for instance...
bobcatdan
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I bet in a rail shop somewhere. My buddy works for CN in a shop over a 100 years old. He says the railroad doesn't throw anything away and there is so much ancient equipment laying around, it could be a museum.