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This pipe vice was mine for a few pounds.
Last year it was £98, being sold as a "Steam punk Door Stop".
Now it is a blue space user.
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This pipe vice was mine for a few pounds.
Last year it was £98, being sold as a "Steam punk Door Stop".
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Now it is a blue space user.
loving the original finish on the smaller oneToday's arrival in the post finally, a Steel circa 1940s production Record no 75 Vice. It is noticeably larger than a 74 not sure what I was expecting but not for it to be this size which is a bonus!
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It's seized but overall great condition with some nice patina but not abused. I will need a larger tub and will get this into citric acid for a week or two which will free it off and remove the rust in one go.
loving the original finish on the smaller one
yup ! but its yours , I like to see the history on kit although conversly its great to see absolute wrecks brought back to former glory with full resto....just look at my old tractor original and earning its keepIts just fresh out of the citric acid bath. It's one of the very first production no 74s with the patent numbers on it so 1920s(?) Would it upset you to hear I intend to strip, buff and repaint it original colour?
Today's arrival in the post finally, a Steel circa 1940s production Record no 75 Vice. It is noticeably larger than a 74 not sure what I was expecting but not for it to be this size which is a bonus!
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It's seized but overall great condition with some nice patina but not abused. I will need a larger tub and will get this into citric acid for a week or two which will free it off and remove the rust in one go.
Very jealous right now, a 75 is on my list of vices I want.
Very versatile, if I had one it would be mounted on a portable stand for use outside the workshop.
Did you get the pipe jaws with it?
They are dear here, people seem to ask £300 for 75s and don't understand that later ones are not steel either!
I got this one for £100 from a private seller in England and had parcel force collect with label so it worked out well.
No pipe jaws with it. I can get the sizes and have some cnc cut by my brother, shouldn't be an issue.
I pushed the spring down with the washer using a pair of circlip pliers. Took a few goes.Hate to tell you but I paid £25 for my 75 about 4 years ago. It's nicely gnarly but a really good and usable vice. I imagine you'll strip, clean and lube the voce, in which case getting the spring back in can be a real pig. On line I've seen it done with a spanner, didn't work,. The only way I could manage it was to lash up the spring with string, assemble then burn the string off. Not a method my apprentice instructors ever taught but it worked.
Don't know if anyone has noticed, but on the Repair Shop the vice used in the outside workshop is a No 75, guessing it's a newer on as its blue.
I have a small one of those bolted to a piece of 2" box section. It gets clamped in the record no 6 when I'm working with round stuff.
So, I left it soaking in a small bucket with WD40 for three weeks. All the moving bits freed up nicely and some of the surface rust had disappeared.I got this small vice today from my ex SIL with the question if I could have some use for it and if it was salvageable.
It's a York 80L with some surface rust. Every moving bit is stuck, but the jaws and anvil look like it's never been used.
I did a quick google on York vices and apparently they are made in the Czech Republic and the old one's are pretty good quality vices.
This looks like a younger version, the old one's had the patent number in the casting apparently.
Are the modern York vices any good? It looks well built and feels quite heavy for such a small vice.View attachment 435549View attachment 435550
Thought I had something similar, but had no idea where it was. Then on Sunday while looking for my soldering station there it was! in all it's gnaly glory.View attachment 436516
This pipe vice was mine for a few pounds.
Last year it was £98, being sold as a "Steam punk Door Stop".
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Now it is a blue space user.
A nice tidy one.Thought I had something similar, but had no idea where it was. Then on Sunday while looking for my soldering station there it was! in all it's gnaly glory.
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I recently got this vice and would like to see if anyone knows anything about it. I got it through an auction along with a cast iron table assuming it was a normal 36" record vice. However after receiving it , have found it's aluminium.
My current thought is it was cast using original patterns or someone made it from an original vice. Any knowledge on this would be great.View attachment 439909View attachment 439910
The WD and MOD sometimes had vices cast in no ferrous metal for work in munition places, along with non ferrous tools.I recently got this vice and would like to see if anyone knows anything about it. I got it through an auction along with a cast iron table assuming it was a normal 36" record vice. However after receiving it , have found it's aluminium.
My current thought is it was cast using original patterns or someone made it from an original vice. Any knowledge on this would be great.View attachment 439909View attachment 439910