Somebody should buy this vice.

[DieselSaves]

I assume the price is decent for a 6” vise. I don’t know Prentice well enough to be sure of the 180# claim.

https://missoula.craigslist.org/tls/d/hall-prentiss-vice-model-183/7027026000.html

 

[ChevyEFI]

If I were as close to it as you are, I would!

 

[DieselSaves]

If I were as close to it as you are, I would!

I’d love to but it’s at least two hours away and I can’t think of an excuse to go there that my wife would believe. Maybe I could tell her I’m just going to the gentleman’s club by the interstate.

 

[davethorik]

180# sounds about right. Maybe less with no pipe jaws. Combination vises are always heavier than a standard machinist vise.

 

[ChevyEFI]

I’d love to but it’s at least two hours away and I can’t think of an excuse to go there that my wife would believe. Maybe I could tell her I’m just going to the gentleman’s club by the interstate.

Price a new one. "I am saving money!"

I already tell mine that's where I am going. She has lived here longer, so she knows where the good ones are.

 

[zkling]

Looks like it is sprung, in that the steel slide to dynamic jaw casting connect became more than 90 degrees. Why I am not a fan of 2 piece dynamic jaw vises.

 

[tool_scrounge]

Looks like it is sprung, in that the steel slide to dynamic jaw casting connect became more than 90 degrees. Why I am not a fan of 2 piece dynamic jaw vises.

Yikes. That is pretty bad. Not worth the price.

 

[DieselSaves]

Looks like it is sprung, in that the steel slide to dynamic jaw casting connect became more than 90 degrees. Why I am not a fan of 2 piece dynamic jaw vises.

That’s what I get for looking at ads on my phone. Missed the big picture for the little picture.

 

[ozyborn]

21 hour drive one way for a vise that needs rebuilt? No thanks.

 

[seber]

Dynamic jaw is sprung and the slide is totally busted. That is probably why the jaw is sprung. That would be a very difficult part to reproduce.