Score! Heuer DRP 6" bench vise.

[Frederik Lapere]

Scored a vintage Heuer DRP 6" bench vise today, wanted one since I for 1) like the look of vintage tools and 2) you guys made me drool by seeing all the nice vintage bench vises around here on the garage journal.
Yesterday I saw an add on FB for a Bench Vise, vintage looking... 10 - 15 comments on it, from all people that told him he was crazy he was selling it for 50€ (I'm located in Belgium) Some people even told him to take it to the scrapyard, etc. So I offered him 35€, he let it go for 40€... The bench vise is made in 1938 and would have cost 245 german Mark at that time, a months wage that time was 250 Mark, so was fairly expensive. You can get a new Heuer 6" bench vise for 900€ today so i'm happy with my score, now i'm going to rebuild, paint, etc it to it's former glory, the vise is'nt even really abused from Grinding or welding. Only some light hamer blows on top but nothing too bad. And the good news is that the company still exists and even carries new parts for it, how cool is that! Because 1 picture tells you more than a 1000words.

Regards Frederik

 

[1982fxr]

A months wages holy ****!

 

[Frederik Lapere]

Yeah, in '38 it was serious money for a bench vise, but 79 yrs later and still in perfect working condition, even has almost nothing of play in it, I have a chinese bench vise that has more play when she was new than the Heuer one has after 79 yrs of duty...

 

[dutchgray]

Nice, good 6" vice for 40€ is a very good price pretty much anywhere.
Tools used to be much more expensive than they are now, decent tools and even the cheap stuff has never been so cheap.

 

[Frederik Lapere]

Indeed. My hands are itchy to rebuild, clean, paint it.
Anyone powdercoated a bench vise here? Or is that just a plain bad idea?

 

[454ragtop]

Congrats, nice find. Heuer's are pretty rare around here, I bought the only one I've ever seen in person. Here it is in Arrest Me Red for inspiration.

 

[Frederik Lapere]

Nice, thank for the pics, given me an idea on the color, looks pretty!

 

[Packard V8]

It's only original once. Before you paint it, wipe it down with solvent, lightly oil it and send us a suite of photos. Afterward, your vise; do with it what you will.

jack vines

 

[notlob]

Congrats, nice find. Heuer's are pretty rare around here, I bought the only one I've ever seen in person. Here it is in Arrest Me Red for inspiration.

That is a piece of art. Added to my want list.

 

[notlob]

Only $1k brand new! (not nearly as nice as the vintage models)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Heuer-Forged-Steel-Bench-Vise-6-VH100160-Heck-Industries-German-Made-/232006684457

 

[Frederik Lapere]

It's only original once. Before you paint it, wipe it down with solvent, lightly oil it and send us a suite of photos. Afterward, your vise; do with it what you will.

jack vines

I will!

 

[Frederik Lapere]

That is a piece of art. Added to my want list.

I can keep an eye out if you like, they sometimes pop up for low prices here in Belgium, the only thing people see is an old rusty tool around here, here at GJ we see a cool vintage tool that will outlive us all.

 

[gregaz]

Love it!

 

[Smith3085]

I just found a heuer 7" bench vise in my barn... I see your post is from last year but wondering if you found any info on these vise's? I just posted a new thread on it with pictures on the vintage tool thread, thanks!

 

[gene-pavlovsky]

Hey guys, first post here on the forum. Nice to meet you all.
I am wondering about these crazy prices for a new Heuer that were mentioned.
I live in Luxembourg and in here (on amazon.de) a new Brockhaus Heuer 120 or 140 mm (6" would be halfway in between) is under 200 EUR, the interchangeable jaws model. The fixed jaws model is cheaper. I got the 120 mm interchangeable jaws model and it is well built and works well.