I've been looking for an old vise to put in my pole barn that I'm going to build this summer. My dad called me yesterday and said he got a vise for me. He told me it was a Craftsman with 4" jaws. My first thought was it has to be a newer style "china" made. When I went to his house I was surprised to see it was an old vise. Sweet! It's a model 5162. It's stamped "428" in two spots and from what I read it would be made in 1942? This vise looks like it had very little use over the years. There's no slop, no dings, saw marks or anything on it and the teeth on the jaws are still pointed and not flattened at all. Should I restore it or just get the surface rust off and call it good. It's my first vise and I will pass it on down to one of my boys when I pass. My dad got this vise from friend who collects everything old from auctions. My dad said he had a shed floor full of old vises and there had to be over 100 of them in a pile. I just might have go to his house sometime and pick up another 1 or 20 lol. When I go there I'll take a picture of the pile.
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