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Hi Ted. Nope, I just rolled the dice on a vise. 🤔. I gamble sometimes, Ted and this wasnt that horribly expensive. I guess I will see, but it appeared to be a good one....vise jaws arent worn, no rounding off of the edges. I hope you and I look as good at age 80-90. But, it still was a roll of the dice, just like lots of other things in life! Plus, I felt so much better when jOe said it looked honest.


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Teds response to Jim

Originally Posted By: Ted Schefelbein
Id be very concerned about getting the broken swivel mount repaired. By tightening only one side, you are risking breaking the swivel mount. The vise needs to be fastened properly, from both sides, when it is tightened down in position.

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Is this another example of Ted not knowing what's he's looking at ?

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Ill have to look at my Parker, but I dont think thats a broken swivel stop mount. I know on Reed vises the factory put a plug in them so you could have it on the right or the left. Parker may have put that boss there for the same reason. All that swivel stop does is keeps it from swiveling, its not intended to hold the vise together. Theres a big ass bolt in the center of the vise thru a steel bushing that actually keeps both parts together.

Ive seen broken vises, but not at that point on quality American vises, believe those parts are cast steel not cast iron, so they would bend before cracking.

Buzz,
Reeds are excellent vises, and pretty darn tough and repairable. Disassemble the vise, clean all the old crud out. Make sure that the handle turns easily and there are no cracks in the castings. If the jaws dont line up when closed, no biggie, do the old machinist/gunsmith trick and file them so they are level.

If you need the jaws to be parallel to +/- .0002 for their entire travel, get a milling machine vise like a Kurt or Parlec but if you need something that will hold parts for general gunsmithing a Reed is awesome.

PS... Reeds have an oil hole near the handle that oils the front bearing.

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Originally Posted By: buzz
Hi Ted. Nope, I just rolled the dice on on a vise.

Plus, I felt so much better when jOe said it looked honest.


"honest"....to me means it was most likely owned by an old fellow a lot like Ted that hardly ever used it.


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Originally Posted By: HomelessjOe


I like my vise mounted on the corner of a bench gives you more of a walk around.



For a guy who argues with everything I say, you sure come back and make my point for me often enough.

Remember when I told you that is why my vise is mounted on a section of ram tube? Big difference between me and you is Im smart enough to figure out how to mount it securely and actually be able to walk all the way around it.

You, aint.

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That how you get your exercise in the winter...


Drinking beer walking around and around the vise.

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Originally Posted By: HomelessjOe
That how you get your exercise in the winter...


Drinking beer walking around and around the vise.


Now you are an expert on exercise?

Put the picture of yourself duck hunting up again, and let all the hot air out of that balloon...


You ought to try a good vise, well mounted. A pleasure to get some actual work done with.

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Originally Posted By: Mike Hunter
Ill have to look at my Parker, but I dont think thats a broken swivel stop mount.


Parkers have a drum brake kind of setup. The wrench on the right side turns a bolt that pulls up a wedge that pushes the 'brake pads' out against the side of the swivel base.

The plug on the opposite side is the hinge that the shoes fulcrum off of. The base and body of the vise are held together by a 1-3/8" head bolt that serves as the axle.




I just looked back at your earlier vise inventory post. That's quite a list of vises

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Originally Posted By: Mike Hunter
Awesome job.... In my mind there is something about using a period vise when working on period guns, especially when the vise was made by a gun company.


Thanks. I agree about the vintage vises. Of course, there are plenty of guys who can't imagine shooting an old shotgun for the same reasons they wouldn't want an old vise. To each his own, I guess.


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Originally Posted By: Ted Schefelbein
That looks like a vise set up to do assembly work. .... You arent going to do real heavy persuasion work, but, you knew that. Id be very concerned about getting the broken swivel mount repaired.


I'm hoping to set up my Wilton Tradesman just beside my anvil and forge, and that will do the trick for when I need to bang, bend or break something.

This vise setup is intended for gun, knife, hand tool restoration, and wood work. You're right that the well should help with keeping errant screws, pins, etc from getting away.

As for the swivel, see my reply to Mike. It's an entirely different system than the Wilton. Works like a drum brake.


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