Morgan 289-1/2 vice

[gasaxeman]

I forgot I had this big boy.
I have had it up at our building in Northern wisconsin mounted to a small platform I built attaching to one of the main support poles of our pole building.
Anyways bringing back home to my shop.
Anyone know the vintage of this.
Says, Morgan , Milwaukee,289-1/2
It's a heavy beast and in pretty nice shape. Jaws are like new.sharp teeth
Have pipe jaws for it also
One picture as internet here is painfully slow.

 

[bobcatdan]

Looks almost identical to my 289 1/2 parker.

 

[AndrewH]

Looks almost identical to my 289 1/2 parker.

That's because it is, they copied it in order to compete with them. It's almost a 100% copy.

To the OP, that's a very nice vise, if you decide you want to sell it give the community here a shot at it. (ie: me, I'm local)

 

[1982fxr]

didn't it go from Chicago to Milwaukee in about 1970? pretty sure member WWII Jeep would know...

 

[autopts]

Looks almost identical to my 289 1/2 parker.

It is identical. It even came with the long pipe jaw on the Dynamic. I think you can still buy that vise today from Milw. Tool. It has the "T" style jaws, This is the 288 1/2

 

[gasaxeman]

Well thanks all for the info.
Gonna keep this one for now.
Gonna mount on my future build,hopefully not too future ,
welding table.
I will be selling in the near future a 4'x10'x.250 all steel table with hd casters and 20a
Plugmold on the long sides if anyone is interested.