dave in fairfax wrote:
in. I'm doing this from memory, Silvan, do you still have the box
I sent you that stuff in? Or anyone else that has a Wilton box
No, but I googled a bit. They're owned by the same Corporation Corporation
that swallowed JET.
http://www.wmhtoolgroup.com/
I didn't see anything particularly useful about their vises there, other
than a brief mention of them in general.
box. I picked up one of their vises to put on the side of a
workmate that I use for portabel stuff. It's a lot lighter than
my Record or my Columbian. Sorry about the bad URL. Might want
to show it to your wife though. %-)
Probably the Wilton that makes all the cookie presses and whatnot. That,
um, SWMBO uses....
The vise you're talking about is rather worse than "a lot lighter" I'd say.
It's one step up above being made out of papier maché, and a well directed
fart could probably shatter it. It's a lot better than nothing though, and
I still use mine as an auxiliary vise to support the free end of a board,
in lieu of a board jack.
I think the Wilton-branded vise in question is one of the ~$100 jobs I seem
to remember seeing at Lowe's. No opinion as to whether it would be better
than a Record, but it might be. It looked like a reasonably nice vise, but
too spendy for me at the time, so I came home with one of the $7 papier
maché versions.
Either way, I think either one of our turn of the century battleship anchors
could whoop any of these namby pamby modern vises any day. Considering how
often I see them on eBay for a lot less than $100, that's probably how I
would go if I needed an additional vise. I've fallen in love with my
seriously overbuilt Morgan, but I think it wouldn't be much of a reach to
fall in love with your old Columbian. Anything with a 1" screw and a
crank rod thingie that can survive being whacked repeatedly with a sledge
hammer without bending can't be bad.
Here's an example, for the Wreck's edification:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=20 761
Caveat emptor! The original unbreakable steel rod has been replaced with
wood, and the mounting plate on the far end is missing. It probably won't
work properly without the plate, and it would be somewhat difficult to
fabricate a new one since the holes are so huge, and you can't exactly cut
steel with a fly cutter or Forstner. (If anyone buys the vise, I can
provide a trace of the plate in question. Mine would probably fit, I
think. This vise is a quick-release version, but it seems to be the same
size as my 10A.)
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