Pukeballs
Well-known member
Hey guys. Thought you might appreciate this so Im posting up some pics of a Columbian vise I picked up this morning.
Last night I was looking through CL and saw an ad for an old USA made vise for $30. The guy didnt know what he had but I could tell from the fuzzy pictures it was a Columbian. All he knew was that it was made in the USA.
So I went over to his house this morning and he opened up his shed in the backyard. Sitting on the ground caked with dry mud, was this beauty. Well at least to me. Its my first big vise.
He must have saw the look on my face because he tried pulling the 'ol switcheroo on me. He had a small chinese pos vise that he said he was really supposed to have put on CL for that price. I said "No thanks. The one that I came to buy was the one you pictured on CL." I handed him $30 bucks and he counted it. Then said it was $35 for the vise and was $5 short. Told him to go check his ad on CL again and verify the price. He said nah its ok. I said great. Im out. Scooped up the vise with one hand and scooped up my 21 mo old son with the other and hightailed it out to my truck before he could make up another excuse not to sell it.
Anyway. The vise has 4" jaws and opens up to 6 1/2". Not sure of the weight of it, but its pretty heavy. Heres a few more pics. Im sure I'll be asking lots of questions about how to get this thing apart to clean it up later. Thanks.
Last night I was looking through CL and saw an ad for an old USA made vise for $30. The guy didnt know what he had but I could tell from the fuzzy pictures it was a Columbian. All he knew was that it was made in the USA.
So I went over to his house this morning and he opened up his shed in the backyard. Sitting on the ground caked with dry mud, was this beauty. Well at least to me. Its my first big vise.
He must have saw the look on my face because he tried pulling the 'ol switcheroo on me. He had a small chinese pos vise that he said he was really supposed to have put on CL for that price. I said "No thanks. The one that I came to buy was the one you pictured on CL." I handed him $30 bucks and he counted it. Then said it was $35 for the vise and was $5 short. Told him to go check his ad on CL again and verify the price. He said nah its ok. I said great. Im out. Scooped up the vise with one hand and scooped up my 21 mo old son with the other and hightailed it out to my truck before he could make up another excuse not to sell it.
Anyway. The vise has 4" jaws and opens up to 6 1/2". Not sure of the weight of it, but its pretty heavy. Heres a few more pics. Im sure I'll be asking lots of questions about how to get this thing apart to clean it up later. Thanks.
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