Craftsman 4" vice minor review
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akasrick
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This is about the only thing it's been good at so far.....
They base will not tighten enough to give you a good stable platform.
A needed a vice and nothing was showing up on CL so now I'm in that "shoulda just paid more up front" zone.
Don't know nothing about the vise but this is 1/2 of my go to boots' duct tape over super glue
Guess I'm working on a new pair of boots
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ARFLY
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I have one. It was cheap so I took a chance on it. It is ok, but the jaws don't line up right.
I purchased that vise last year, the jaws were atrociously misaligned. I went back to the store and opened the other three that were on the shelf, all were terrible. I returned mine and eventually got an Amazon gold box deal on a Yost 4”.
It amazes me how a name alone can make customers blindly put items into their cart.
Why anyone would buy anything Craftsman right now is beyond me. Pretty much everything they did right in the past, they have royally fucked up now.
Why anyone would buy anything Craftsman right now is beyond me. Pretty much everything they did right in the past, they have royally fucked up now.
I bought a 6" all steel vise from Toptul for the home shop and for the price (£230 ish) its been great, everything lines up and it holds solid.
$300 (equiv) for a vise with stamped steel slide seems very expensive in my neck of the woods.......
I had a shity old Harbor Freight Vise that the base wouldn't tighten up. I ended up removing the two side handles that you used to tighten by hand, and replaced them with half inch bolts. Now I tighten my base with a 3/4 inch wrench instead of my hand and it gets nice and tight. Simple modification made all the difference.
MayerMR
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This is about the only thing it's been good at so far.....
They base will not tighten enough to give you a good stable platform.
A needed a vice and nothing was showing up on CL so now I'm in that "shoulda just paid more up front" zone.
I've got an old Columbian vise that is giving me the same troubles. I've been thinking about how I can correct it and I'm going to try putting a piece of relatively rigid rubber, cut to size, between the vise and the base. That way it has something to bite into when tightened down. I haven't tried it yet, but I relatively sure that it will fix the issue.
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Coach James
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I have that C-man vise and it works fine. I also bought it 15+ years ago though.
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