Unior Vise

[Pistolero]

Anyone have one of this?

IRONGATOR engineer's vice

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[Grant Gunderson]

Unior makes some pretty nice bike tools these days. Some are quite a bit better than Park imop.

However I don’t think that vise is one of their better tools. I’d seriously question the strength of that quick nut system. Not to mention the DYNAMIC jaw is in the BACK and the FIXED jaw is in the FRONT. Typically you mount a vise with the rear fixed jaw flush or proud of the edge of your work bench. So you can clamp tall items. You can’t do that with this. For example working on suspension parts, bike seat posts, etc would be a pain in this vise as you could only grip the base of the shafts, not the top near where you are working. Not to mention the screw is completely exposed so it can easily get gunked up. Quality vises use enclosed screws.

Unless you are getting a great deal on it, personally I’d keep an eye out for a Wilton Tradesman, a Heuer or a Rigid. Or if money is no object a Fireball for all out beefiness or personally, for precision work I’d get an Orange bench vise. Their dovetail system for changing soft jaws is genius.

 

[1982fxr]

How much are they? Looks like practically no throat depth.

 

[Model A Fan]

I hate companies that don't post the price of their products. I think it depends on what you're using it for. I wouldn't torque too much in it, looks kinda chincy with the way it mounts to a bench.

 

[JradM]

I like it! Not because it looks super robust - just because it looks neat. Like a Gressel sort of.

I wonder what it's for? It is interesting-looking, but I'm not sure if this design does anything better than a more traditional one. It would be cool to have one of these mounted to one of those flip-vise mounts that Fireball tool invented. Then you could use it on suspension parts, bike frames, etc.

The exposed screw isn't my favorite. I still think it's neat.

I see a price of ~$3100 on Amazon Canada, but I assume that's not for real. Do you know what retail actually is OP?

 

[mikeswrenches]

How much are they? Looks like practically no throat depth.

$479.99, sure seems like enough!

 

[G-ManBart]

I generally don't trust anything that has pipe jaws which can't be replaced.

 

[Grant Gunderson]

I like it! Not because it looks super robust - just because it looks neat. Like a Gressel sort of.

I wonder what it's for? It is interesting-looking, but I'm not sure if this design does anything better than a more traditional one. It would be cool to have one of these mounted to one of those flip-vise mounts that Fireball tool invented. Then you could use it on suspension parts, bike frames, etc.

The exposed screw isn't my favorite. I still think it's neat.

I see a price of ~$3100 on Amazon Canada, but I assume that's not for real. Do you know what retail actually is OP?

You should look at the Orange bench vice I posted a link to above.

 

[Steve_P]

Sorry, but that looks like something from the Fisher Price Fuzzy Pumper Barber Shop deluxe edition

 

[wrenchr]

I like the truss design on the bottom.

 

[F-22]

I know it is a bit of an older thread, but I've seen lots of those vises. They are very rough and poorly made in my opinion - not worth the money even though they do the job okay (probably better than most chinese offerings).

There's another slovenian foundry casting vises in Europe, called NIV (from the city of Črnomelj). Those basically reuse 50+ year old casting patterns. Nothing wrong with that, those are beautiful classic German pattern reverse-vise. We call this style a locksmithing vise in our language, but the 150mm version is very stout. At least these are of a quality and finish that we can be proud of.



Pretty sure the 150mm version is under 300€. I do not know if they use nodular/ductile iron, but even for regular cast iron I think it's very much worth it. The spindle is actually fixed on the rear moving jaw, and with the handle you actually spin a long tube with a nut inside. So while it looks like it is exposed, you only see the threads if you take it apart.