On Apr 10, 12:28*pm, Stanley Schaefer wrote:
On Apr 8, 8:56*pm, jon_banquer wrote:









On Apr 8, 7:04*pm, Gunner Asch wrote:

On Mon, 8 Apr 2013 18:04:52 -0700 (PDT), "

wrote:
On Apr 8, 6:03*pm, jon_banquer wrote:
* *I have a number of
vises, but the Columbian is the one I like best.

Dan

Live a little. You have plenty of time not that Ed has you in his kill
file. Buy a forged vise.

And what brand of forged vise would you recommend and why would that
be better than the Columbian?

Dan

Wilton, Columbian, Prentiss, Parker, Dawn, etc etc

Most of Wilton's stuff is now made in China. You are only buying a
name that use to mean something and no longer does. I can't speak to
the rest of the names you mentioned.- Hide quoted text -

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Most new vises period are made in China, at least ones you can buy off
the shelf. *A lot of the former "names" are out of business and just
attached to the same Asian iron being peddled everywhere. *Rigid may
have some US-made tools, but the stuff I see with their name on it in
the stores is Chinese all the way through.

To the O.P., most cast iron vises I've seen have had the "nut" for the
movable jaw machined out of a blob cast with the body. *Break that and
you're done. *Kudos for Columbian if they have a separate nut trapped
in the casting some way. *So how did it get broken?

Stan


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