Help Identifying USA Vise - Calling All Vise Gurus

[Nocturnal-G]

What can you guys tell me about this vise... The only markings it has is the number 5 and made in USA. I have no knowledge on vises... besides that they seem to all be made overseas now from some posts I've read.

Thanks guys!

 

[Outlawmws]

Check the head of the main screw for markings; that style was often marked there by different manufacturers. I bought one last weekend that is marked "Defiant by Stanley" and I gave my son a Millers Falls...

 

[hofferwood]

Not much help, but it looks like this guys second cousin.

No markings, but this.

 

[Nocturnal-G]

I couldn't find anything on it...

I'm in the same shoes as hofferwood... Similar vise.

 

[neophyte]

Nocturnal-G's vise looks like the old/antique Brink & Cotton vises that were USA made. Bellow is a pick I stole from an Ebay auction for comparison. A Frederick Brink of Stratford, Conneticut, was issued US Patent #1,720,464 for that vise design on July 9, 1929. Yost currently makes a similar vise in the USA as the 250, 2-1/2" Clamp-On Vise. Street price for the Yost vises is about $80. Dolex of France also make that style of vise in larger sizes, but the Dolex vises are very expensive.

Frederick Brick Patent.

http://www.google.com/patents/US172...Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=brink cotton vise&f=false

Two of the Currently manufactured version of that vise style.

http://www.yostvises.com/specialty-vises/clamp-on-vise/2-1-2-clamp-on-vise.html

http://www.dolex-vices.com/bench-vices/double-guiding-vices/type-40-vice-104/

 

[Nocturnal-G]

Thank you Neophyte! I'm pretty sure it is a Brink and Cotton vise looking at the pictures.

 

[GETRIDAONE]

I got one very similar at an estate sale about three weeks ago. It was laying on the back of a shelf covered up with other stuff. One of the slide pins had come loose so I guess he didn't use it anymore. I fixed the pin, wire wheeled, and repainted it. I figured it cost less than a dollar when you averaged the stuff I bought. Small ones are cool too

 

[Displaced Hokie]

I have one like it too, but green. Neat little vise, and quite handy. Mine had a yellow and red sticker on the side of it, but it was too worn to read the name. There is thread on these every so often on GJ, so they must be somewhat common.

 

[Outlawmws]

I got one very similar at an estate sale about three weeks ago. It was laying on the back of a shelf covered up with other stuff. One of the slide pins had come loose so I guess he didn't use it anymore. I fixed the pin, wire wheeled, and repainted it. I figured it cost less than a dollar when you averaged the stuff I bought. Small ones are cool too

Yeah, I've heard it's not how big it is but what you do with it that counts.