Stanley 763 vise jaw screws needed

[peter_l]

Greetings,

I am a long time lurker and I appreciate all that is shared here. I have spent (lost) many an hour, especially in this vintage tool forum.

I restored a Chas Parker 974 and a Desmond Stephan Simplex 350 a couple of years ago for the garage bench. This week I picked up a nice, small clamp-on Stanley 763 vise for my hifi bench. I cleaned and primed it yesterday, painted it today. After the paint cures for a couple of days, my wife is going to do the highlight painting. She has much steadier hands that I for the fine work. The color scheme will be ivory with red accents. The vise is in great condition, but I am missing one jaw plate screw. Can I find these screws anywhere, or do I have to just match the threads and grind the heads to fit? If the latter, I might use brass screws. I think they would look cool.

 

[RTM]

I have to just match the threads and grind the heads to fit

That’s what I did on one of my vises, I think my Reed 203-1/2.


or you can spend hours searching and agonizing over dozens and dozens of websites, just to come back to line 1.

 

[larry_g]

low profile slotted screws - Google Search

Personally I would go with a modern low head cap screw with a socket instead of slotted.

 

[akasrick]

Greetings,

I am a long time lurker and I appreciate all that is shared here. I have spent (lost) many an hour, especially in this vintage tool forum.

I restored a Chas Parker 974 and a Desmond Stephan Simplex 350 a couple of years ago for the garage bench. This week I picked up a nice, small clamp-on Stanley 763 vise for my hifi bench. I cleaned and primed it yesterday, painted it today. After the paint cures for a couple of days, my wife is going to do the highlight painting. She has much steadier hands that I for the fine work. The color scheme will be ivory with red accents. The vise is in great condition, but I am missing one jaw plate screw. Can I find these screws anywhere, or do I have to just match the threads and grind the heads to fit? If the latter, I might use brass screws. I think they would look cool.

I have one here from that style vise, a 765 donor.
What should I insure it for?
You're welcome too it.
Pm me.

akasrick

 

[peter_l]

I have one here from that style vise, a 765 donor.
What should I insure it for?
You're welcome too it.
Pm me.

akasrick

Looks like I was mistaken on my vise. It is indeed a 765. The stamping on the slide is a little hard to read. Explains the picture discrepancy I found in my image searches. PM inbound.

 

[1982fxr]

Find the right threads and grind the head.

Let's see a pic of the Desmond...

 

[peter_l]

Not the best pics.

 

[crguy]

Not the best pics.

Put washers under those bolt heads.

 

[peter_l]

Will do!