I broke my vice yesterday

[poppinjohnnies]

This was an old freebie vice that I bolted to the workbench a while back. Made in Japan. Folks, this is why you should buy quality USA made tools. Look how poorly this thing was made.

 

[Fretters]

I've seen people break/snap "quality" vices too. Push anything beyond its limits, and it'll break.

 

[DadsTools]

Looks like they used a lot of fuller in that vise to cause the jaws to be poppin off.

 

[crugg65]

This was an old freebie vice that I bolted to the workbench a while back. Made in Japan. Folks, this is why you should buy quality USA made tools. Look how poorly this thing was made.

We all had projects on our work bench that headed to the scrap pile. This time it’s our bench vise. Depending on how much scrap you have to cash in, you might be able to get a nice Chas Parker or Wilton vise that you can show and tell with us GJ tool buddies [emoji847]


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[Parrothead]

My father has an old 3.5” made in Japan vise that he’s absolutely beat the daylights out of doing things a 3.5” vice should never do. Cheater pipes, hammering on, etc. if it blew up tomorrow, it was worth the money. I suspect it would be replaced by a cheap Chinese vise the next day.

American iron is great, but sometimes the effort or cost has to be considered.

 

[M_George]

We all had projects on our work bench that headed to the scrap pile. This time it’s our bench vise. Depending on how much scrap you have to cash in, you might be able to get a nice Chas Parker or Wilton vise that you can show and tell with us GJ tool buddies [emoji847]


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Watch out if you get a Wilton. Found 6 inch one yesterday at a flea market yesterday that turned out to be made in China.

 

[Muzzy]

Folks, this is why you should buy quality USA made tools. Look how poorly this thing was made.

Really? You said it was free. It didn't owe you a thing.

 

[Shootinok]

Wow !
I pushed my wife to her limits one day and she snapped too. .

Lucky for me, she has a reset.

 

[exmaxima1]

That vise was a toy to begin with. Open screw, lightweight. Plenty of similar vises made 50 years ago in the US would have broke as well. No surprises here....

 

[rsanter]

What were you clamping it is when it broke?

If I had that now, I would take the good half, paint it up and make it a book holder

 

[justtools]

You could try some of that super glue or gorilla glue they advertise on tv to put it back together. They say its stronger than steel.

 

[6PTsocket]

I have a 6" Polish Rapid. I used to use it to press bearings and other forms of abuse where I really got down on the handle Finally I bent the screw. I was able to straighten it out but I came to the realization that it is for holding things, not forcing them, at least for big stuff. I went out and bought a 20 ton press (not a HF).
You abuse stuff it breaks. We had a monster 4 1/2" Reed at work. THAT may have been unbreakable. LOL!!

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[Shootinok]

What were you clamping it is when it broke?

I'm curious too poppin... what was the last clamp that caused its demise?
Was it a strike too or just a hard twist of the handle?

 

[Parrothead]

Watch out if you get a Wilton. Found 6 inch one yesterday at a flea market yesterday that turned out to be made in China.

I've got a 5" one in my garage. It's done everything I've ever asked it to do. I'd not hesitate for one second to buy another one. You really think Wilton is going to make complete **** and stamp their name on it when they're still selling the made in the USA vises for premium dollars? Um...not likely. Is it as good? No idea, but in this case it was never used outside of my home.

 

[M_George]

I've got a 5" one in my garage. It's done everything I've ever asked it to do. I'd not hesitate for one second to buy another one. You really think Wilton is going to make complete **** and stamp their name on it when they're still selling the made in the USA vises for premium dollars? Um...not likely. Is it as good? No idea, but in this case it was never used outside of my home.

Hope your right, but after what other companies have done I'm a skeptic.

 

[Parrothead]

Hope your right, but after what other companies have done I'm a skeptic.

Well, mines 15 years old if that matters

 

[poppinjohnnies]

I was using it to hold a 5/8” diameter rod so I could run a thread die over one end of the rod. I just cranked it a little too tight. We have a big vice bolted to a workbench at the farm that’s been sitting outside for about 15 years. Balloo or something like that is on the side of it. Don’t know if it’s worth restoring, but I might give it a shot.
P.H. - We’re heading to the Buffett show in Kansas City in May. You going?

 

[M_George]

Well, mines 15 years old if that matters

What model is your vice? The one I got is a Wilton Model 676.

 

[zippy1981]

You could try some of that super glue or gorilla glue they advertise on tv to put it back together. They say its stronger than steel.

I've got a similar Royal brand made in Japan hollow cast steel vise. I wonder if it's worth filing with epoxy to make stronger.

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[American Locomotive]

It doesn't look that poorly made to me. I've broken larger vises before. It happens.

 

[General Geoff]

That thing is how many decades old? I'd say it earned retirement.

 

[poppinjohnnies]

The brand is Fuller. Made in Japan is cast under the base.

 

[poppinjohnnies]

I think I’ll make a mini anvil out of the remains.

 

[va.grouseman]

I used to tell my boys when they were little and fighting over a toy that I was going to throw it in the wood stove, but it wasn't a total loss because we would get a few BTUs out of it.---They would get real civil.---But the same holds true with your broken vise, it still has intrinsic value.---In it's present condition it's still worth probably 4 1/2 cents worth of scrap iron, so not a total loss.---Glass 1/2 full.

 

[JUNK-MAN]

I've broke 4 so far, I just buy cheapos and use em till they break.

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[Coach James]

Alright, I'm looking at the picture. Looks fine to me.

Coach

 

[Parrothead]

I was using it to hold a 5/8” diameter rod so I could run a thread die over one end of the rod. I just cranked it a little too tight. We have a big vice bolted to a workbench at the farm that’s been sitting outside for about 15 years. Balloo or something like that is on the side of it. Don’t know if it’s worth restoring, but I might give it a shot.
P.H. - We’re heading to the Buffett show in Kansas City in May. You going?

I wish! Have fun in KC. I am still planning out my schedule for the season. Probably Indy, and hope for an Alpine Valley date

 

[MayerMR]

This was an old freebie vice that I bolted to the workbench a while back. Made in Japan. Folks, this is why you should buy quality USA made tools. Look how poorly this thing was made.

So what you're saying is you don't need that main screw anymore....? I'm restoring an old vise where I literally had to cut the handle off the main screw before I could knock the main nut out...needless to say I'm down one main screw...

*edit* Actually looking again, that's just a lil fella...I'm going to need a bigger main screw!

 

[HanShotFirst]

This was an old freebie vice that I bolted to the workbench a while back. Made in Japan. Folks, this is why you should buy quality USA made tools. Look how poorly this thing was made.

I'm not seeing any poor quality in manufacture. Perhaps the DESIGN could have been with a thicker section holding the screw and jaws. But the quality of manufacture appears to be just fine. I'm not seeing any gaps or fills.

Also appears to be a light duty vise.

 

[chaosracing]

Watch out if you get a Wilton. Found 6 inch one yesterday at a flea market yesterday that turned out to be made in China.

The vises that Harbor Freight currently sell are direct copies of Wilton vises. Guess that since the Wilton is made in China, the same manuf just pours the same one for HF.