Anyone know who makes Record vices, if not Record?! Can't locate a
website: does anyone know it? Just out of general interest really.

Thanks
David

On 2007-06-03 21:28:39 +0100, Lobster said:

Anyone know who makes Record vices, if not Record?! Can't locate a
website: does anyone know it? Just out of general interest really.

Thanks
David

There's Record Power. it isn't them, but I am sure that they will know
who thye contact is.

This may be an importer. The manufacturer will be Hoo Flung Dung of Shanghai

On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 20:28:39 +0000, Lobster wrote:

Anyone know who makes Record vices, if not Record?! Can't locate a
website: does anyone know it? Just out of general interest really.

Thanks
David

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'Irwin', I think.

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On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 21:37:44 +0100, Andy Hall
wrote:

On 2007-06-03 21:28:39 +0100, Lobster said:

Anyone know who makes Record vices, if not Record?! Can't locate a
website: does anyone know it? Just out of general interest really.

Thanks
David

There's Record Power. it isn't them, but I am sure that they will know
who thye contact is.

This may be an importer. The manufacturer will be Hoo Flung Dung of Shanghai

I still have, and regularly use, my 3½" Record No 2 vice which I was
given for, I think, a Christmas present when I was about 12 or 13,
40-odd years ago.
The jaws are starting to get a bit smooth now, and nearly all the
lovely blue paint has gone :-(

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On 2007-06-03 21:53:32 +0100, Frank Erskine
said:

On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 21:37:44 +0100, Andy Hall
wrote:

On 2007-06-03 21:28:39 +0100, Lobster said:

Anyone know who makes Record vices, if not Record?! Can't locate a
website: does anyone know it? Just out of general interest really.

Thanks
David

There's Record Power. it isn't them, but I am sure that they will know
who thye contact is.

This may be an importer. The manufacturer will be Hoo Flung Dung of Shanghai

I still have, and regularly use, my 3½" Record No 2 vice which I was
given for, I think, a Christmas present when I was about 12 or 13,
40-odd years ago.
The jaws are starting to get a bit smooth now, and nearly all the
lovely blue paint has gone :-(

John Cyril Bamford's company makes really nice excavators. They
have also lent their name to a range of crappy power tools. I hope
that either they made a lot of money out of this or that the marketing
manager who worked on the project was fired.

At least Caterpillar made a reasonable attempt at something with a
level of quality.

In article ,
Lobster writes:
Anyone know who makes Record vices, if not Record?! Can't locate a
website: does anyone know it? Just out of general interest really.

Record was bought by Irwin a few years ago.

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Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
Lobster writes:
Anyone know who makes Record vices, if not Record?! Can't locate a
website: does anyone know it? Just out of general interest really.

Record was bought by Irwin a few years ago.

Thanks. A note on their site says that all Record products will be, or
have been by now, re-branded as Irwin. Sad.

David

The vices used to be made at the Record Ridgeway factory in Sheffield
- I remember going on a tour of the place in the early 1980's.

wrote:

The vices used to be made at the Record Ridgeway factory in Sheffield
- I remember going on a tour of the place in the early 1980's.

Surely it was Rotherham? Or was it only the foundry in Rotherham?
Even then, 1981ish, the place was nearly completely automated, the
blokes who worked there were just watching and pressing buttons
occasionally.
Alan.
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In article ,
Lobster writes:
Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
Lobster writes:
Anyone know who makes Record vices, if not Record?! Can't locate a
website: does anyone know it? Just out of general interest really.

Record was bought by Irwin a few years ago.

Thanks. A note on their site says that all Record products will be, or
have been by now, re-branded as Irwin. Sad.

The Irwin tools I've seen in the shops are some way below the
quality that Record was.

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On 3 Jun, 21:28, Lobster wrote:
Anyone know who makes Record vices,

No-one. Irwin (USA) bought them and closed them. Still some new-old-
stock around though.

Lobster wrote:

Anyone know who makes Record vices, if not Record?! Can't locate a
website: does anyone know it? Just out of general interest really.

I bought mine he

http://www.fine-tools.com/schraub.htm

But I see they have changed to Starrets now. 'Twas cheaper to buy a
Record vise from Berlin and have it shipped than to buy one here in the
UK, perhaps why they are no longer made. My quick release front vise is
going well though, as is the tail vise I bought, second one down he
http://www.fine-tools.com/spindel.htm

BTW Dieter is very nice and his service is excellent. the two cherries
chisels are highly reccomended, take and hold a very sharp edge.

Peter

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The vices used to be made at the Record Ridgeway factory in Sheffield
- I remember going on a tour of the place in the early 1980's.

Surely it was Rotherham? Or was it only the foundry in Rotherham?
Even then, 1981ish, the place was nearly completely automated, the
blokes who worked there were just watching and pressing buttons
occasionally.

Long time ago. ISTR the foundary was fully automated and much hyped as
state of the art continuous flow production. The shop floor work of
finishing the castings was a fairly grim affair. Location I thought
was just off Sheffield Parkway.

The Irwin tools I've seen in the shops are some way below the
quality that Record was.

True of most traditional tools. Look at the s*** than Stanley make
these days.

Practically though, the UK is full of top quality secondhand hand
tools that can be picked up for a song on ebay.

On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:45:02 -0700, " wrote:

Practically though, the UK is full of top quality secondhand hand
tools that can be picked up for a song on ebay.

Like this one
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=180124307687

Like this one


Fortunately the most commonplace stuff is the most useful - and of
least interest to the collectors.

e.g.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SUPERB-VINTAGE...QQcmdZViewItem