Joyce Gridland Vise?

[mh31960]

Hello everyone...my name is Mike Harris, I am a new member of Garage Journal and President of Joyce/Dayton Corp. formerly Joyce-Cridland Co. Our company currently specializes in the manufacture of mechanical jacks and actuators but has a long history of manufacturing a variety of industrial products. Since our founding in 1873 in Dayton, Ohio we have manufactured mechanical jacks, hydraulic automotive lifts, performing arts lifts for places such as Kennedy Center in New York and MGM Grand in Las Vegas and railroad maintenance lifts for light rail vehicles around the country. I am our company historian and as such was very surprised to learn that we also manufactured bench vises. Thanks to your forum member Mr. Tepe, Joyce is now the proud owner of one of theses vises. As you probably already know from reading the previous posts, Mr. Tepe sent an email inquiry to Joyce in February and he and I have been in communication ever since. When Mr. Tepe learned about my interest in the vise, he kindly offered to sell it to our company. This transaction occurred a few weeks ago and we have since restored the vise to it's former glory. Much to the joy of our employees, the vise is now proudly displayed in our product museum at our facility in Portland, Indiana (see attached photos). Thanks again to everyone on this forum who commented previously and especially to Mr. Tepe for his consideration and generosity.

Best Regards, Mike

 

[2oolhound]

Welcome to GJ! and thanks for posting these photos! Many of us here would love to have some of those stands and jacks!

here's to your long and prosperous future in your homeland!

 

[mh31960]

Welcome to GJ! and thanks for posting these photos! Many of us here would love to have some of those stands and jacks!

here's to your long and prosperous future in your homeland!

Thank you sir....our employees have collected most of these jacks over the past 20 years from farmers within a 50 mile radius of our facility! I am guessing there are thousands more in barns and garages around the world. I noticed you hail from BC....we have 100's of jacks currently in operation at your Alcan Aluminum Smelter in Kitimat

 

[drivesitfar]

MH: very nice post and thank you for some great tool **** too. the vise did find the right home and you and your company did an amazing job restoring it. i'll have to check the names on some of my screw jacks once i pull them out of storage to spiff them up.

also welcome to the group and if you haven't already you might want to start a thread in the introduction area and here is the link.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=27

ask questions if you have any and lots of topics so i'm sure you'll learn a little something about almost anything every time you log on.

cheers

 

[Joe B.]

Such a great story!

 

[Outlawmws]

Glad to see you got a bit of Company history back, and really glad to see another company that respects their history...

 

[bczygan]

One of the best threads ever!

 

[Richard Cranium]

Great story, Welcome to Garage Journal.

 

[asdanzig106]

Hello everyone...my name is Mike Harris, I am a new member of Garage Journal and President of Joyce/Dayton Corp. formerly Joyce-Cridland Co. Our company currently specializes in the manufacture of mechanical jacks and actuators but has a long history of manufacturing a variety of industrial products. Since our founding in 1873 in Dayton, Ohio we have manufactured mechanical jacks, hydraulic automotive lifts, performing arts lifts for places such as Kennedy Center in New York and MGM Grand in Las Vegas and railroad maintenance lifts for light rail vehicles around the country. I am our company historian and as such was very surprised to learn that we also manufactured bench vises. Thanks to your forum member Mr. Tepe, Joyce is now the proud owner of one of theses vises. As you probably already know from reading the previous posts, Mr. Tepe sent an email inquiry to Joyce in February and he and I have been in communication ever since. When Mr. Tepe learned about my interest in the vise, he kindly offered to sell it to our company. This transaction occurred a few weeks ago and we have since restored the vise to it's former glory. Much to the joy of our employees, the vise is now proudly displayed in our product museum at our facility in Portland, Indiana (see attached photos). Thanks again to everyone on this forum who commented previously and especially to Mr. Tepe for his consideration and generosity.

Best Regards, Mike

Mike,

I wonder if you can help me. I love these jack stands. They were made by your company back in the 1940's. My father bought his first set in the late 40's and i now have them. I also picked up 2 sets of the 5 tons stands, but one of them is missing the pin that holds cradle up. I tried everywhere to find that pin, and i even called your company, but no luck.

this stand is relatively useless without the pin. And i had to throw away a piece of history. They have a great "foot-print" and i love using the ones i have. I need to get this set operational.

If you could point me in the right direction on how could find/buy that pin. I'm not even sure how the original one came out. the person i bought them from didn't know what they were and have any interest in them. but i didn't realize one pin was missing until i got home.

i hope you can shed some light on this.

thanks.

Alan

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