Nice Vice ?,

[Charlie,Participant @charlie18171]

[Charlie,Participant @charlie18171]

A few months ago i bought a vice, A three and a half inch vice with a reversable jaw,Which would then alow the vice to hold up to 7 inches,An impulse purchase,And it was in a pretty box with nice couloured pictures on it,It cost me £19-99, I brought it home and put it away as i was fairly busy at the time, I put it away in the workshop and almost forgot bout it,Rediscovered it a couple of days ago and thought i would have a good look at it,Imagine my dismay when i discovered it had polypropaline jaws,But as it turned out i decided this was not a bad thing as it would make the vice sympathetic to sensitive parts,The vice its self was quite heavy,(Cast grey metal it said on the box,) The screw was acme type and quite meaty its rotateable and quite veratile,I finished up liking it and thinking it was good value for the money Its made by Faithfull tools,( Im just a customer) i cant imagine i was the only one to buy one,Did you buy one?,And what do you think of it?I Think i might have bought it from Liddles,

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Probably quite capable of giving you years of service. Nothing wrong with pastic jaws I have wooden blocks attached to mine to avoid the nasty rough metal jaws marking the work. There are some idiots who are unable to distinguish the difference between a vice – for holding things to saw and file – and a 3 ton press.

[Richard ParsonsParticipant @richardparsons61721]

Charlie I have one of those vices. I bought it in the 1980s. It is marked ‘Record’. It was my main vice, but now it is on my instrument table. It has 3 jaws and a rotary base. Somewhere in the 90s I bought new plastic jaws for it. They have never been used.

Only snag I have with it is that I have to keep a big-ish screw driver with it to do the rotating thing.

I had forgotten about removing the front jaws and putting then in from the ‘back’ to hold wider things. Thanks for reminding me

Rdgs

Dick

[Axel BentellParticipant @axelbentell]

Most vices are ok, except the screw often too small or badly made, if this is replaced any vice will do really! The only ones that Ive broken have bbeen cast iron that I over tightened. My fault really.

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