where do you mount your vise(S)

[t100]

I have a very tight 2-car garage, floor space is at premium. I have 8 vises, 1 bench, 1 vise stand(for the big daddy). now I need some ideas to keep the other 6.

if, anybody have fabricated their own vise stand/pedestal, let's see them.

here is my cluster:

 

[Adrien]

Are you collecting them or do you actually want 8 usable vises in your garage? I would either turn the other 6 into cash. If you want to display them I would just get some steel plate and make a shelf attached to the wall to show them off.

Adrien

 

[35mastr]

Unless you got some vise fetish. why so many. 2 is more than enough for most shops.

 

[DavidB]

I have my small 4" Wilton on a wooden stand I built. My other two are bolted to pieces of wood that I clamp down to my bench when I need them.

 

[alabamavolvos]

I really think that extra Wilton would find a good home in my garage which lacks a quality vise.

 

[sawatch]

I've got 2 [Athol & Reed] mounted on the bench in the "old [small] shop". They're set at 90degrees to one another so not as much adjusting the swivel base one.
In the big shop I've got two mounted on a really heavy eight by four foot welding bench, an Athol & Wilton.
At the garage by the house I've got a 4"Athol and a 2" Reed on the benches.

 

[shampoop]

I mounted mine on the long side of a very narrow table. Mounted in the exact same position as the one pictured and the table is nearly the same dimensions as well. It's not all steel like the one pictured but is a heavy duty steel tube frame with a very thick strong wood top. Only problem is the vise probably weighs around 75lbs and makes the table want to tip over pretty easily when i was trying to remove a bearing race from a hub with a chisel. I'm going to have to figure out a way to weigh the table down so it's more stable. Love the dimensions though for space saving. A deep table usually isn't needed for general auto mechanic style stuff anyway.

 

[t100]

because my garage is lack of width, the steel bench is only 22" deep, 36" wide but 42" tall, compare to regular benches are only 30" tall.

I have 2 argon bottles, 120cf, 80cf on the bottom shelf laying horizontally, my tig welder and torch cooler on the mid shelf. vise and I-beam anvil on the top. the steel top is 1/4" thick.

when I to park my car inside, i.e. hail or tornado, I have to push the bench against the wall and turn the vise 90 degrees to the right. yes, it's that tight.

 

[t100]

Are you collecting them or do you actually want 8 usable vises in your garage? I would either turn the other 6 into cash. If you want to display them I would just get some steel plate and make a shelf attached to the wall to show them off.

Adrien

sorry, I have to call you newbie on this one. there was a thread a while ago discussing something like: is there such a thing called "I have too many vises"?

the conclusion was NO.

the wall and even the ceiling are all occupied, it's even worse now because there's a **** load of kids stuff in the garage dumped my wife's friends after we had our first kid earlier this year.

 

[csp]

So the question remains, do you really want all eight to be mounted and usable?

 

[woody 73]

It is kind of fun being able to build a new workbench just for the vise,but alas my garage is very small and I ran out of room a long time ago. Still looking at your pictures one can never have enough vises!

Woody

 

[ZRX61]

Unless you got some vise fetish. why so many. 2 is more than enough for most shops.

HERECY!!!! Torch & pitchfork time!!

 

[t100]

So the question remains, do you really want all eight to be mounted and usable?

I want have at least 2 more mounted. maybe a 2 tier stand serving as a shelf, too.

 

[larry_g]

In the old shop I had two mounted on the bench. One at the corner and one ~5' away. I paid particular attention to get the fixed jaws inline for grabbing long items or two smaller things for welding or other mating processes. A third vise was mounted on a large brake drum that set the height of the vise the same as the bench mounted ones. Now I can use either or both of the bench vises and the portable for setups or what ever.

lg
no neat sig line

 

[justanengineer]

The guy that bought several of the vises I sold prior to moving west used a rather unique setup I thought. He was a collector and a user, so he fabbed a quick change mounting system to given him flexibility. He used a heavy wall pipe base (more like big round stock with a small hole bored in it), and made adapter plates that bolted to the individual vises with a spike underneath that mated into the base for his heavier vises. For his lighter ones he used the common square receiver hitch on the underside of the benchtop method. What really made it unique IMHO was that he had also made a storage rack for each type of mount that mounted to his wall. All he had to do was pull a pin, lift the vise off the wall and into its respective holder, replace pin, and work. When I saw his shop, he must have had about 50 vises on the wall. Really made me wish I had brought a camera, but as so often happens, when I see the best shops I have none.

 

[2oolhound]

A few guys have made bayonet mounts for their vises/grinders/etc. that allows them to store them on a lower shelf when not needed and then quickly mount them on a stand or bench when needed. One was made of 2 pieces of 1 1/2" square tubing and the other guy used trailer hitches (female part on the bench and male part on the vise).

 

[35mastr]

HERECY!!!! Torch & pitchfork time!!

I got 2 and that more than enough for me. I would rather have a bunch of Anvils than a bunch of vises.

 

[blazemaster83]

I have 2 bench vises, and a drill press vise and I could probably use another of each. You can never have too many clamping devices...

 

[Adrien]

sorry, I have to call you newbie on this one.

You can call me Shirley if you want too. Although I do agree that you can never have too many "tools," based on your situation and space contraints and the quality of all those "spare" vises, I would consider selling them. That would be a pretty good chunk of change. I'm hoping to be in your situation at some point with that many good quality vises at my disposal, however I hope to have enough need and space to put them to use. If I don't I'll be turning them into something else, like guns.

Adrien

 

[mjozefow]

Cherish those Reeds, they are some of the finest ever made. Reed took over where Parker left off, and no one has ever come close to matching their quality since.

And if you do consider selling a 205/6 let me know. I'll kick my Wilton 1780 to the curb in about 5 seconds.

 

[skeletonizer]

One of the things I wanted to do when I built was put a 6 or 8' chunk of appropriatly sized I beam vertically through the floor and sunk in cement and mount the vice on it.

Events (and a brain dead concrete guy) conspired against me. I just have it bolted to an old wooden work bench i am using until I build a steel one.


...he screwed me on my floor drains too

 

[onelochevy]

I built a pedestal for mine. Base is an old semi truck wheel. Main post is 2x4x0.25 rec. tubing. Mouting plate and base plate are all 0.25" plate.

 

[Catalyze]

Too many vises? Maybe in Mother Russia where you stand in line for days just to bid on a Harbor Freight 4" Shark Vise painted People's Safety Blue. Here in the good old US of A we stand hip deep in vises and wish for Craigslisters to answer their damn emails! Did Prentiss tell Parker to stick to shotguns? No sir buddy....He said bring on your best swivel back jaw....I can take it. Wait....that was from Big Trouble in Little China and I seem to have lost sight of the original poster's question.

I too am designing a "vice trolley" to hold the small bit of "clampers and squeezers" that I have gained. When I can con my favorite welder into fabbing it together, I will post a photo or two.
Craig (totally giddy....it's raining for the first time in 7 months)

 

[mjozefow]

Oh come on Catalyze, Prentiss never came close to Parker...

They did still make a nice vise though.

 

[Catalyze]

Oh come on Catalyze, Prentiss never came close to Parker...

They did still make a nice vise though.

J. Edgar Hoover buried the evidence of that fateful meeting between Prentiss and Parker. You think that Prentiss built vises in Meridan, Ct at the last because they had a Menards there? No way. All I am allowed to say at this point in time (due to my black ops vise work) is that both Prentiss and Parker begin with the letter "P" and both have vowels and consonants in their names. Just knowing that should make you wonder what it all means...... sorry, time to double up on the meds that I have been saving.
Craig

 

[slip knot]

Mounted my Parker outdoors. I can get pretty rough and not worry about messing anything up. Put a trashcan over it when not in use. Got a Wilton on a 6X8 bench in the shop but no pics of it.

 

[Adrien]

Well, just to stick to the original intent of the thread I'll post a pic of the stand I built. One day it will house my Parker.

Adrien

 

[itsvegas]

i like the vise mounted on a trailer hitch with the receiver being mounted on the bench idea. might have to give that a try.

 

[Catalyze]

Unfortunately not my Reed 108 but this is a vise mount indeed.
Craig
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[2oolhound]

That is a vise indeed! You must have really been torquin on it to bend the handle like that.