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Default Pedestal Mounted Vise

On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 07:08:45 -0800
Larry Jaques wrote:

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On 28 Nov 2017 03:06:07 -0400, Mike Spencer
wrote:

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.


8" leg? That's a huge vise.


I rather like this one:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BYn8XSJDuiU/

or this slightly bigger one:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BaAZVc-D3uq/

There are some amazing old tools still out there

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