Vise Info Thread

[PghJKB]

Yost was originally located in Meadville PA.
Reed is located in Erie PA.
Presumably, they may have made products for each other.

Might as well throw in Hollands of Erie, PA...

 

[CRSINMICH]

Well, it turns out....

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[CRSINMICH]

Two more for the Spreadsheet
Steelcraft 'SUPREME' vises

#C780 Supreme Heavy Bench vise clamp on
#174 Supreme Heavy Machinists vise

(There were other vises in their 1962 catalog but only these two were specifically called SUPREME)


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[CRSINMICH]

1936 TRIMO SAW VISE SET
I don't quite know what to make of this but here it is.

"Special for the dairy trade"?


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[twagler]

1936 TRIMO SAW VISE SET
I don't quite know what to make of this but here it is.

"Special for the dairy trade"?

That's an interesting vintage advertisement for a vise for very niche, specialized application - thanks for showing it. This 1936 ad would have been right about the time when dairy farms were modernizing from milking cows by hand or using in-situ milking machines over to the concept of a "dairy parlor". This is a centralized location in the barn where multiple cows are milked at the same time by machines, and all the milk flows automatically from cow directly to a refrigerated collection tank via a multi-branched piping collection system, which has to be all food-grade and hygienic-rated, with no crevices that would prevent proper cleaning and sterilization. Not sure of all the details, but I think the burred edge from a typical tubing cutter didn't work with the type of fittings available in 1936, hence the special vise to ensure that the farmer or installer could make a perfect square cut when putting the piping system together.

 

[RTM]

That's an interesting vintage advertisement for a vise for very niche, specialized application - thanks for showing it. This 1936 ad would have been right about the time when dairy farms were modernizing from milking cows by hand or using in-situ milking machines over to the concept of a "dairy parlor". This is a centralized location in the barn where multiple cows are milked at the same time by machines, and all the milk flows automatically from cow directly to a refrigerated collection tank via a multi-branched piping collection system, which has to be all food-grade and hygienic-rated, with no crevices that would prevent proper cleaning and sterilization. Not sure of all the details, but I think the burred edge from a typical tubing cutter didn't work with the type of fittings available in 1936, hence the special vise to ensure that the farmer or installer could make a perfect square cut when putting the piping system together.

Bonus comment, our dairy (and brewery) product piping was often Schedule 5, so very thin, and cutting with a hacksaw was possible.

 

[four.cycle]

I don't quite know what to make of this but here it is.

Okay, I'm confused.
Who was the manufacturer?

Trimont Manufacturing of Roxbury, Massachusetts? or?

 

[CRSINMICH]

four.cycle: I couldn't make this out in the photo in the original pamphlet but the saw vise was indeed made by Trimont.

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[CRSINMICH]

Trimont made other tools for smooth tubing


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[four.cycle]

Wow... I had no idea they got into vises. I thought they only made pipe wrenches!

 

[CRSINMICH]

Here are a couple more

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[four.cycle]

Sorry... my mistake... I've been pretty sick and haven't been thinking straight for the last week. I should have looked first. I remembered seeing a "Trimont" pipe vise on Craigslist some time ago.

 

[CRSINMICH]

Here's a strap pipe vise patent given to Wilbert Trethewey of Boston. The name Trethewey is well known for plumbing in Boston. One Trethewey is a plumbing TV star.

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[Patrickm82]

The show was “This Old House”. I grew up watching it as it is local to me. Pretty cool show. I believe it’s still on tv.

 

[four.cycle]

errrr.... TBros pluming in Rosindale, Massachusetts is where this leads. Have you found anything that documents that unit was actually manufactured?

 

[CRSINMICH]

four.cycle: I haven't found any evidence that it was produced. It kind of looks like the brothers might have been able to make one for themselves.

 

[four.cycle]

thanks. I'll stop digging!

 

[CRSINMICH]

four.cycle: Keep digging. You may find something that was overlooked.

 

[KMScott]

Fulton model 22-1/2. 5-1/2” jaws that opens to 8-1/2” and weights 117 lbs.