Bob La Londe writes:

Do any of you guys use a vise on a pedestal?=20
[snip]
Waaaadaaaayaaathink?

I have five vices -- bench, 2 leg, pattern maker's, cabinet maker's --
permanently mounted on benches.

The 8" leg vice is firmly bolted, via the usual band & wedge device,
to a piece of heavy-wall 4x4 HSS. The HSS post and the foot of the
vice stand in sockets welded to the center of a 4'x4' piece of 1/4"
plate.

The vice, even without the attached post, is too heavy for me to lift,
as is the plate. But it's easy to pick up first the vice and then the
plate with a garden variety rolling engine hoist and prop them in a
corner when the space but not the vice is needed.

The plate and socket are heavy/sturdy enough that hammering, twisting
and wrenching don't move the vice.


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Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada